Licensing

We provide access to our technologies and trait components through licensing. There are licensing opportunities for ‘not for profit’ research organizations, companies as well as commercial service providers. If you have questions or are you interested in a tailor-made licensing proposal contact our licensing team.

Sequence-Based Genotyping (SBG or GBS)

Looking for a technology for simultaneously discovery and scoring of genetic markers without genome sequence information in a cost-effective way? Use KeyGene’s Sequence-Based Genotyping. KeyGene licenses Sequence-Based Genotyping methods for commercial and research purposes. Our current licensees include:

Commercial in-house use
– Bayer Crop Science. Read more: Press release January 11, 2016
– Enza Zaden
– Rijk Zwaan
– Limagrain Vegetables Seeds
– Takii & Co. Ltd.
– One global seed company

 Licensed Service Providers
– IGA Technology Services. Read more: Press release June 19, 2014
– Floragenex Inc. Read more: Press release July 28, 2015
– LGC. Read more: Press release January 11, 2016
– University of Minnesota Genomics Center. Read more: Press release January 16, 2017
– University Wisconsin-Madison, Biotechnology Center. Read more: Press release January 15, 2018

Academic Internal Research
Are you a non-profit research organization and want to access KeyGene’s Sequence-Based Genotyping technology for internal research purposes in a quick and easy way? Download the form, fill in the required details and return the form to our licensing team. After payment of the licensing fee you will obtain the license. There is a licensing form for US and RoW non-profit research organizations:

Licensing form nonprofit research organizations USA
Licensing form nonprofit research organization Rest of the world

Our current licensees include:

Licensees Europe
– The James Hutton Institute
– University of Hohenheim
– University of Zürich
– Forschungszentrum Jülich
– Wageningen University
– ETH Zürich
– CNAG-CRG, Barcelona
– University of Liverpool
– WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute
– Aberystwyth University
– Julius Kühn-Institut
– INRA
– CIRAD
– Rzeszow University of Technology
– University of Exeter

Licensees United States
– University of Minnesota Genomics Center
– South Dakota State University
– Oregon State University
– Tennessee Technological University
– Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
– San Diego Zoo Global
– North Carolina State University
– University of Delaware
– Kansas State University
– Virginia Tech
– University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
– Utah State University
– Mississippi State University
– West-Virginia State University