Our mission is to produce improved crop varieties which offer better performance or added value in the products and applications for which they are developed.

We aim to do this by understanding and exploiting natural genetic diversity, using both genes present in the species itself and also genes from related species, which we access using non-transgenic wide hybridization and introgression techniques. Wild relatives of crop species offer a great reservoir of characters with potential to produce varieties with new qualities, particularly in the areas of nutrition and health. In situations in which natural variability cannot be identified, we have expertise in using genetic modification to incorporate traits of value. Currently, we see applications in industrial crops as appropriate for this technology.

Our vision is that plant breeding has made invaluable contribution to increasing agricultural production and food supply and that the process of breeding more productive crops will continue, benefiting from genomics technologies and molecular breeding tools. We see, however, that in addition to improving crop productivity and resistance to stresses, there are great opportunities to breed crops for a range of new quality traits. In food crops, such traits include improved nutritional and health benefits and organoleptic characters. In industrial crops, there are opportunities to increase the levels of components of value and to remove components which reduce process efficiency.

Agrasys has the ideas, expertise and capacity to identify new opportunities in crop breeding and to produce novel added-value varieties, delivering benefits such as better health for consumers, better flavour in innovative food products, and improved product and processing yield in industrial crops.

Our company values include a commitment to highest quality research and development - the production of new knowledge, technology and materials and the exploitation of these results to produce new crop varieties and products with real benefits. It is important to us that our products are innovative and useful and that they improve on what the market currently offers. In parallel, we aim to contribute to better sustainability and efficiency in agriculture and food production. Finally, our approach to business is based on partnerships; we have firm belief in the strength of our own resources, but we also know that our future growth and success will depend on interactions with other partners. It is our aim to develop productive and lasting partnerships at all levels from basic research to product sales.