mission

Mission: TTI Green Genetics will develop and apply genetic information
for the creation of crops with improved performance and improved
quality: ‘TTI Green Genetics will put genetics to work’.

Plants are the basis of life on earth. For centuries, humans have selected plants
that best fit their needs in feeding their cattle and themselves, and they have
developed crops that have many advantages in quality, yield and farming
practices. Such plant breeding has been very successful, although multifactor
traits involved in quality and resistance to pests and diseases have proven to
be extremely difficult to improve.
The revolution in life sciences through molecular biotechnology and genomics
has changed the scale and scope of our possibilities in plant breeding dramatically.
This has enabled a detailed genetic understanding of plant performance at
multiple levels of aggregation. The complex biological processes that underlie
the quality-related processes of our crops and mechanisms of pest and pathogen
resistance are now open to systematic functional analysis.