Crop Innovation & Business

VIB and ILVO launch new start-up Protealis to support sustainable plant protien production

April 08, 2021

Ghent-based company Protealis, a new spin-off from VIB and ILVO, is making its debut today in the plant breeding industry. Inspired by the mission to grow more sustainable plant-based proteins locally, Protealis aims to harvest the full potential of legume crops. With innovative breeding technologies and proprietary seed coatings, Protealis will create new opportunities for European farmers to help overcome Europe’s protein deficit.

Integrating digital phenotyping tools in your day to day operations

March 16, 2021

Every company currently involved in developing, validating and applying products for the agrofood chain must choose from a wide range of imaging technologies which claim to improve performance of development or operational capabilities. The key questions these companies must ask is how they can get the most out of these technologies, and even more importantly, how can they integrate these technologies into current workflows in a simple and logical way.

The Pepper Case

February 26, 2021

As a plant breeding company you are most certainly aware of the latest EPO board of appeal cases with colourful names such as Tomato I, Broccoli I, Tomato II and Boccoli II, and the latest addition being “The Pepper case” decision G3/19. What is the impact of this decision on plant and animal breeding? Dietmar Hertsen and Bart Swinkels from NLO discuss the consequences of this exceptional case in their podcast.