Own the question
Choose a clear breeding target and stay with it long enough to learn.
ABOUT PROTISEM
Independent
thinking.
Practical breeding.
An independent plant breeding company in Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium. Built around crops, long-term goals and work in the field.
Plant breeding, genomics and phytopathology are different ways of asking the same question: what should the next generation do better?
PROTISEM is founded and led by Hendrik Rietman. His work connects genetic diversity and disease biology with field selection and bioinformatics. The soybean programme began in 2010; today the breeding focus includes grain soybean and sweet corn.
Being privately held and subsidy-free gives the company room to pursue its own breeding priorities. The aim is not a larger catalogue of technologies. It is useful crop improvement, sustained over the generations it takes.
Services grow from that same practical base: helping other teams establish breeding programmes, connect their tools and make better use of their material.
THE WAY WE WORKLONG-TERM BY DESIGN
Curiosity starts it.
Fieldwork tests it.
New variation is worth exploring. Useful performance is what has to remain.
Connect the disciplines
Use genomics, pathology, data and field observations as parts of the same selection process.
Keep the product in view
A useful trait has to work in a plant that a grower can produce and a buyer can use.
FROM AMBITION TO A BREEDING PLANBreeder to breeder.
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