| SunGene offers research services for third parties in the area of genetically modified plants.
SunGene, founded in 1998, has established itself as one of the biggest plant biotech companies in Germany and is located on the Biotech Campus at Gatersleben. Today SunGene is fully owned by BASF Plant Science.
During the last years we have positioned ourself as a technology and service provider to help our customers to carry out research and to develop valuable traits in crop plants.
Our employees are the key to your success.
In our excellent facilities and with highly skilled personnel we hold the world-exclusive rights on patents in the areas of enabling technology, methods for plant transformation as well as the production of valuable plants compounds in plants.
We have developed a broad and deep skillset in plant biotechnology such as: Molecular biology and enabling technologies, molecular genetic analysis of plants, analytics and biochemistry, bioinformatics, transformation of plants as well as greenhouse services and plant production of GM plants.
We have established efficient, high quality, fully automatized robotic pipeline to quantitatively analyse plant genes and gene expression. We cooperate with international and national academic institutions and biotech companies. In cooperation with our partners we develop technologies and apply technologies to make products for the global market.
We can guarantee to have no conflict of interest with our other customers and shareholders.
Core Competencies:
Molecular plant analysis in diverse crops (wheat, canola, potato, corn, Arabidopsis, tobacco, marigold and rice)
- Fully automatized, high throughput quantitative Real Time PCR
- Assay development and routine testing in the area of:
- Gene expression analysis of target genes including the optimization of gene expression
- Target gene specific assays
- Event specific assays
- SNP analysis
- Multiplex analysis of several genes in the same well
- Copy number, zygosity testing, analysis of the presence of vector backbone
- Insert characterization of GM events
- Adventitious presence
- Hybridization based technologies available (Northern, Southern)
Regulation of gene expression
- Promoter portfolio available
- Constitutive-, seed-, root- or other tissue specific expression
- Services to isolate new promoters
Metabolic Engineering
- Broad knowledge on gene finding and optimization approaches in several pathways
Agrobacterium based transformation of crop plants
- High transformation efficiency in canola, potato, marigold and Arabidopsis
- Development of transformation protocols for crops of interest
- Marker excision protocols for the post transformation elimination of markers available for crop plants
High quality greenhouse facilities for work with GM and non GM plants
Professional data management with an information management system (LIMS)
Bioinformatics services and support
- Tool development and programming
Excellent quality management system and quality control
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