Business Profile
KeyGene provides its partners and customers in the plant breeding industry contract research, partnerships and molecular genetic services.
KeyGene delivers novel enabling technologies and applications to support companies and institutes that carry out fundamental or applied genetic/genomic research or that seek to enhance the quality of their products through the improvement of their genetic material.
KeyGene’s strategic shareholders
KeyGene based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, was founded in 1989 by a number of Dutch seed companies. Their goal was and is to create synergy and higher efficiency in their molecular genetic research programs and thus improve their breeding efforts. Today, KeyGene has four strategic shareholders active in the field of vegetable breeding:
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At the time of its foundation KeyGene employed three people. Since then KeyGene has grown continuously and several times it has had to expand its facilities considerably. Currently, KeyGene employs more than 130 staff.