Cibus Technology to be Featured on InnovAction Stage at the Euroseeds2024 Congress
CBUS 10.11.2024
“Innovation plays a crucial role in driving progress within the seed sector and Cibus’RTDS®-based high throughput breeding system is at the forefront of these innovations,” said
The Euroseeds InnovAction Stage is a new platform that shines a spotlight on the latest innovations reshaping the future of the seed industry in
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About Cibus
Cibus is a leading independent plant trait company that develops and licenses plant traits to seed companies for royalties. Cibus is not a seed company, but rather a technology company that uses its proprietary gene editing technology to develop and commercialize plant traits at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional breeding. Cibus’ strategy is focused on commercializing productivity traits for the world’s major row crops with large acreage such as: canola, rice, soybean, corn and wheat. The Company targets traits that help manage farmers’ seed productivity and sustainability challenges such as weeds, disease, and insects. The
Aboutthe Cibus Trait MachineTMprocess and Rapid Trait Development SystemTM
A key element of Cibus' technology breakthrough is its high-throughput breeding process (referred to as the Trait MachineTM process). The Trait Machine process is a crop specific application of Cibus' patentedRapid Trait Development SystemTM (RTDS®). The proprietary technologies inRTDSintegrate crop specific cell biology platforms with a series of gene editing technologies to enable a system of end-to-end crop specific precision breeding. It is the core technology platform for Cibus' Trait Machine process: the first standardized end-to-end semi-automated crop specific gene editing system that directly edits a seed company's elite germplasm. Each Trait Machine process requires a crop specific cell biology platform that enables Cibus to edit a single cell from a customer's elite germplasm and grow that edited cell into a plant with the Cibus edits. Cibus has a Trait Machine process developed for canola and rice and has already begun transferring their elite germplasm with Cibus edits back to customers.
The traits from Cibus'RTDS-based high-throughput breeding system are indistinguishable from traits developed using conventional breeding or from nature.RTDSdoes not integrate any foreign DNA or transgenes. Under the
Cibus believes thatRTDSand the Trait Machine process represent the technological breakthrough in plant breeding that is the ultimate promise of plant gene editing: "high- throughput gene editing systems operating as an extension of seed company breeding programs." In 2024, the Trait Machine process was cited by
Because the Trait Machine process is intended to be integrated into seed companies' breeding operations, the customer relationship between Cibus and seed companies with which it engages is a collaborative relationship in which seed companies transfer elite germplasm to have a specific validated trait placed in the seed company's elite germplasm and expectation of delivery back to the seed company of their elite germplasm with the Cibus edit toward commercial development. Accordingly, Cibus refers to seed company "customers" in its disclosure once such a customer relationship has been initiated.
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