Molecular Breeding

Eurofins BioDiagnostics offers a wide array of molecular breeding services to help plant breeders identify and introduce desirable traits into plant varieties quickly and efficiently. With results from tests using the industry’s most sophisticated methods, technologies and analyses, plant breeders can bring the precision of molecular genetics science to their programs, accelerating the speed to market of their new varieties.

Eurofins BioDiagnostics utilizes state-of-the-art genotyping and sequencing platforms, such as Illumina (iScan, MiSeq, HiSeq), Affymetrix (GeneTitan), Array Tape Platform (LGC Genomics) and Fluidigm EP1 System to provide quick and accurate results and to support a wide array of molecular breeding projects. These include:

Molecular Breeding at Eurofins

Eurofins BioDiagnostics offers a wide array of molecular breeding services to help plant breeders identify and introduce desirable traits into plant varieties quickly and efficiently. With results from tests using the industry’s most sophisticated methods, technologies and analyses, plant breeders can bring the precision of molecular genetics science to their programs, accelerating the speed to market of their new varieties.

Eurofins BioDiagnostics utilizes state-of-the-art genotyping and sequencing platforms, such as Illumina (iScan, MiSeq, HiSeq), Affymetrix (GeneTitan), Array Tape Platform (LGC Genomics) and Fluidigm EP1 System to provide quick and accurate results and to support a wide array of molecular breeding projects. These include:

Marker Assisted Selection

Marker Assisted Backcrossing

QLT and Association Mapping

Positional Gene Cloning

Marker Discovery and Development

Genomic Selection

Genetic Fingerprinting

As part of its trait introgression services, Eurofins BioDiagnostics uses proprietary sets of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers for crop species.

As part of its trait introgression services, Eurofins BioDiagnostics uses proprietary sets of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers for crop species.