Optimise your plant breeding programme with big data - Wageningen Plant Research

Do you want to explore how you can use data to optimise your plant breeding programme? Our software pipeline combines data and models to help you to produce better or other varieties.
It can support adaptation to stress conditions and climate change and inform your selection decisions.

Biometris, a business unit of Wageningen University & Research, is active in the development of methods and software that are instrumental in the solution of problems plant breeders are confronted with. Plant breeding has become a scientific activity in which decisions about which genotypes to select for propagation to a next breeding cycle have to be taken in a short time period in the light of large quantities of phenotypic, genetic, and environmental data. These data are produced by high throughput genotyping and phenotyping devices in combination with all kinds of omics data generating platforms, and remote and proximate sensors. Biometris helps plant breeders to model and visualize the data and extract essential parameters from the data, thereby providing a rational basis for crucial breeding decisions. The video gives a good impression of the methodology, software and support offered by Biometris to plant breeders. Interested? Please contact [email protected].