The HeatDDR project will also benefit from the expertise of partner organizations from the academic or non-academic sector who will participate in the training and host secondments.
Danko Hodowla Roślin Sp. z o.o. is a Polish commercial company, dealing mainly with the plant breeding of agricultural crops.
Hodowla Roślin Smolice is a Polish seed and breeding company. Our main activity is breeding modern varieties of agricultural plants. The company also produces top quality seeds of its varieties, which are
sent to the best seed companies for further reproduction. The talented breeding staff, a wide range of varieties,
professionalism in seed production make the company on the most reliable leaders on the seed market in Poland.
Royal Holloway, University of London has an outstanding plant science research
base. ‘Sustainability and Security’ is one of its four major strategic research themes, with Food Security being the specific
focus. RHUL participates in two of the BBSRC DTP Ph.D. training programs in partnership with Imperial College, Syngenta, Kew Gardens and University College London. The School’s Centre for Plant Molecular Science along with the neighbouring Department of Computer Science (CS) also runs a state-of-the-art Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology (CSSB). The project will involve the laboratory of Pr Lazslo Bögre.
Solynta is a leading potato seed breeding company based in Wageningen (NL) which has developed an innovative technology for targeted breeding of one of the world’s most important staple crops, potatoes. Our award-winning hybrid true potato seeds will transform the way potatoes are grown and distributed worldwide.
Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Stein International Research Centre. The Research Centre employs around 300 staff and focuses on the discovery and development of Insecticides, Fungicides and ASM/CE products as well as Mode of Resistance for Insecticides and Fungicides.
Syngenta UK Ltd, Jealott’s Hill Research Centre, Bracknell, UK. The Research
Centre employs around 800 staff and focuses on the discovery of herbicides, determination of modes of action of
chemicals, development of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides, formulation of crop protection chemicals and wheat
doubled-haploid breeding.