As a Biotechnological Institute, our company has built a leading R&D department,
in which various research projects are currently being developed:
The hop and brewery industry project
Due to the great importance of hop in our land, several research lines define
this project:
- Restoration, phenotypic and genotypic characterization of hop cultivars (H3, H7 and Fino Alsacia)
which are well-known for their unique organoleptic properties
- Hop plants sex identification
- Improvement of cultivar propagation processes, emphasizing the obtaining of in vitro micro-rhizomes
- Complete chemical fingerprinting of some hop varieties
- Production of liquid yeast
The maize project
Our main aim is to perform a genetic improvement program in order to get maize lines showing
esistance to Fusarium and cane breaking.
These plants will be used in our genetic improvement program as donors
to inter-breed them with other interesting maize cultivars.
To this end, we will perform an extensive screening of a set of maize plants, in order to select those lines
of interest: molecular markers related to cane breaking resistance will be employed, as well as a completely
characterization of their cell walls. This last point have been currently carried out.
The bean project
Due to the important economic looses that the halo-blight disease causes in vean worldwide,
we are focusing our efforts in the development of an integral treatment against it.
Two different approaches are being followed:
- The formulation of a bio-remedy for being apply as a preventive and/or emergency solution in epidemic spreading cases
- The performance of a breeding program for the obtaining of bean plants showing resistance to the disease as well as
others interesting field properties.
Other research lines of our department
- Cell wall composition and energetic analyses of agronomic residues
- Genetic improvement of other crops
- Development of bio-treatments and bio-fertilizers with a broad spectrum of application
