DuPont Pioneer is establishing an Africa technology hub in South Africa to serve the African region, similar to research hubs in Brazil, India, and China. The hub will comprise a network of research facilities and testing locations in South Africa and around Africa, with the technology center located in Delmas, South Africa. The network will utilize leading R&D technologies to shorten breeding cycles and improve accuracy in breeding crops such as maize, sunflower, grain sorghum, forage sorghum, wheat, dry beans and soybeans for Africa.

1. DuPont Pioneer is establishing a technology hub in South Africa to
serve the Africa region, similar to the research hubs that Pioneer has
established in Brazil, India and China.
• The Africa technology hub will comprise a network of research facilities
and testing locations in South Africa and around the continent.
• Delmas, South Africa, will serve as a technology center of the network.
• The network will be infused with leading R&D technologies which
shorten breeding cycles and improve accuracy toward breeding
targets, such as doubled haploids, ear photometry, and the
proprietary Pioneer Accelerated Yield Technology or AYT™ System,
as well as genetic breeding technologies like marker-assisted selection.
• The technology hub will incorporate key Pioneer and Pannar research
and testing locations, combined germplasm, talent and experience to
improve cultivar breeding and development for Africa.
• Research efforts will support all crops for which Pioneer and Pannar
currently maintain breeding programs, including maize, sunflower,
grain sorghum, forage sorghum, wheat, dry beans and soybeans.
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This is a visual representation of a genetic library of maize,
depicting the relationship of founders to modern-day elite inbreds.
· Germplasm will be highly
characterized and recorded
through multiple generations.
· A harmonized global research
Information Technology system will
enable access to data and pedigree
systems to increase the predictability
and success of breeding programs.
· The 24/7 sharing of data and
information will bring better varieties
to Africa’s farmers at a faster pace.
Africa
Technology
Hub
Germplasm is the entire collection of genetic resources for an organism. Pioneer maintains
its germplasm as a collection of seeds and carefully documents the characteristics, or
phenotype, of each of those seeds and stores the information in its information management
system to be used in the research program.