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The future needs new ideas Center of Excellence for Plant Biotechnology in Germany Table of Contents Chairman’s Address Map of the Biotech Campus Gatersleben Research Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK) F 1 Companies Bayer CropScience U 1 Gartenland Produktion GmbH - Quality Seed Testing Labor U 2 IT-Breeding GmbH U 3 Orgentis Chemicals GmbH U 4 Saaten-Union Biotec GmbH U 5 TraitGenetics GmbH U 6 Infrastructure and service oriented environment Biotech-Center Gatersleben GmbH I 1 BGI Biotechpark Gatersleben GmbH I 2 School Laboratory Green Laboratory Gatersleben I 3 InnoPlanta e.V. I 4 BMD GmbH I 5 Business Development Corporation Aschersleben-Staßfurt mbH I 6 Gatersleben I 7 Salzlandkreis I 8 Contact, Credits, Imprint I 9 Chairman’s Address Dear Reader, With this brochure we are pleased to present an innovative and dynamic location for plant bio- technology and plant genome research: Green Gate Gatersleben® - The Plant Biotech Center This site incorporates all the factors a good location should offer: research with international vibrancy, innovation through a strong entrepreneurial spirit, a service oriented environment, strong support from politics and local authorities and lots of room for new ideas. This is what lies behind GGG – a location combining tradition and innovative spirit. We offer everything new companies and start-ups need. And there‘s more: our technological competence is also a service platform for our partners. The different players from Green Gate Gatersleben® offer contract research plus a wide range of other services to biotechnolo- gy enterprises and companies from the agribusiness, pharmaceutical and chemical indust- ries. Take a look at our brochure and see for yourself! Dr. Martin Ganal Chairman Green Gate Gatersleben® - The Plant Biotech Center Location at a glance What kind of infrastructure can we offer to you? Customer services provided to you: The Biotech Center Gatersleben and the Biotech Park Gatersleben • Marker-assisted breeding Who are we? offer: • Crop transformation Green Gate Gatersleben® (GGG) is a joint initiative of all plant • More than 300,000 sqm²(3.2 million square feet) • Enabling technologies biotechnology and associated enterprises and institutes located in of developed premises • Genetic and phenotypic analysis of plants Gatersleben and surrounding areas together with public organiza- • Greenhouse area: 4.500 square meters • Plant cultivation in upscale greenhouses tions. Our goal is to jointly market and showcase Gatersleben as • Laboratory facilities: 10.000 square meters • Chemical synthesis and natural compound characterization the largest plant biotech location in Germany. • Fields: 175 acres • Extraction of plant ingredients GGG’s partners are all equals and jointly determine activities • Production of double haploid plants to be performed under the umbrella brand name “Green Gate What makes us different? • Databases for precision breeding Gatersleben® - The Plant Biotech Center”. • Research investment: approx. EUR 35 million in 150 projects • Work force: a total of approx. 600 of whom roughly 500 work at GGG is the right place to successfully start or further grow your Where are we located? the Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Research (IPK) business. Benefit from our services! You can rely on a network We are located in the middle of Germany in the State of Saxony- • Services: Business development, networking, start-up support, of established biotech companies and organizations, contacts to Anhalt, south of the Magdeburg Börde, in one of the most fertile location marketing, open and communicative network, close investors and modern infrastructure. areas of Germany and in a plant breeding center, both historically contact with the general public, decisionmakers and public and presently. The airports at Leipzig, Hannover and Berlin are authorities easily accessible within 1-2 hours by car or alternatively by train. A private regional airport is located 20 minutes nearby. The B6N Come in and find out! Join us in shaping our future! highway and the A14 connect Gatersleben with major cities close • Successful application of the location in the federal initiative by. “365 locations in the Country of Ideas” • Advertising & Public Relations • Representation of our partners at international trade shows • Supporting activities in technology transfer • Cooperation in research projects 8 13 4 6 Haupteingang Biopark 14 1 15 Haupteingang Biotech Campus Gatersleben Germany’s most important 2 9 10 11 5 site of modern plant 7 12 breeding 1 The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics 9 Green Laboratory Gatersleben and Crop Plant Research (IPK) 10 BMD GmbH 2 Gartenland Produktion GmbH 11 InnoPlanta e.V. 3 Orgentis Chemicals GmbH (300m away) 12 IT-Breeding GmbH 4 Saaten-Union Biotec GmbH 13 Genome center 5 TraitGenetics GmbH 14 Seeds cold storage house 6 Bayer CropScience AG 15 Perennial garden 7 Biotech-Center Gatersleben 8 Biotechpark Gatersleben IPK GATERSLEBEN Salzlandkreis Gatersleben Plant Research for the Future The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) at Gatersleben is a research center that addresses the issues of modern biology by focusing mainly on crop plants. Pionee- ring research to uncover the fundamental principles of plant performance and the development of enabling technologies are considered to be of paramount importance in understanding the genetic architecture and the evolution of crop plants at the organismic, the chromosomal and the DNA level. Knowledge-based strategies are developed to facilitate the targeted utilization of biological diversity for the sustainable production of food, feed and renewable resources. These efforts are complemented by the development of transgenic approaches to improve plant performance. Disciplines, Technologies, Resources Molecular markers, BAC libraries, mutagenesis, population development, cereal transformation, DNA and RNA sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics, IPK electron microscopy and confocal microscopy GATERSLEBEN F 1 The Institute comprises four scientific departments As one of the world’s leading plant research centers the IPK Research into crop plant diversity ranges from the improvement • Genebank cooperates with many national and international partners. In of the collection management to crop plant taxonomy including • Cytogenetics and Genome Analysis addition to their research work the scientists at IPK also dedicate speciation, adaptation and radiation of crop plants and their wild • Molecular Genetics, and time to teaching at universities, amongst them the Martin Luther relatives. Molecular genetic approaches are used to scrutinize the • Physiology and Cell Biology University Halle-Wittenberg and the Anhalt University of Applied impact of domestication and adaptation on the diversity of crop Sciences. plant genomes. Strong emphasis is placed on the development The research program focuses on three major themes: the of genomics-based strategies for improved utilization of genetic conservation, development and exploitation of genetic diversity, Conservation and Exploitation of Crop Plant Diversity resources. This includes identification and isolation of genes dynamics of plant genomes, and integrative biology of plant The Federal ex situ gene bank in Gatersleben and its branches at underlying agronomic traits, the response to biotic and abiotic performance. While fundamental questions are mainly studied the Baltic Sea mainly preserve crop plants of the temperate cli- stresses, plant architecture, and phenology as well as yield com- using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, questions of applied science mate zone including cultivars, land races and their wild relatives. ponents. As a further step to developing state-of-the-art utilization are investigated in a variety of crop species. In this regard barley Currently the collection comprises 151,000 accessions from about concepts for the genetic resources in the gene bank, the most (Hordeum vulgare) is of central importance due to its agricultural 3,200 botanical species and 776 genera. While the majority of modern high throughput technologies for systematic genotyping value and because its genome serves as a model for cereal species accessions are stored as seed at low temperatures, clonally pro- and also phenotypical analysis of experimental populations and of the Triticeae tribe that also includes other important crops pagated plants are preserved in fields, in vitro, or as cryo-cultures selected genebank accessions are deployed. Specific emphasis such as wheat and rye. To further promote research into the Triti- at -196°C in liquid nitrogen. Every year about 30,000 samples are is put on the molecular dissection of complex traits and the ceae, the institute heads an international consortium to physically distributed worldwide (http://gbis.ipk-gatersleben.de). The taxonomic development of genomics driven breeding methodology including map and sequence the barley genome. In addition, biological reference collection serves as an international information center genomic selection, trait modelling and hybrid breeding. Isolation resources and enabling technologies are developed such as mole- holding about 450,000 voucher specimens. The Federal ex situ of genes underlying agronomically important traits will facilitate cular markers and transformation techniques. A comprehensive gene bank can look back over more than 70 years of experience the identification of novel alleles from gene bank collections. program on