Xi'an Jinpeng Seed Co., Ltd. (Xi'an Jinpeng),
a prominent tomato seed supplier in China Shaanxi Province
As a private enterprise specialized in tomato
breeding and seed production, Xi'an Jinpeng has been facing an increasingly
intense competition in domestic tomato seed market, as more and more tomato
varieties have been introduced by seed companies both at home and abroad.
Relying on the R&D center, Xi'an Jinpeng intends to accelerate tomato
breeding process and develop more tomato varieties with great competitiveness.
It is understood that Xi'an Jinpeng's R&D
center is composed of laboratories of biotechnology, tomato pathology and
tomato breeding, 50 tomato planting greenhouses with high standard, a tomato
seed processing workshop and a seed vault with low temperature and humidity,
totally covering an area of 6.53
ha . (98 mu). At present, tomato breeding experiments are
conducted normally in the R&D center. The varieties and combinations on
exhibition are attracting large number of vegetable growers, distributors and
breeding experts from various places.
Xi'an Jinpeng was founded in 2001 by a tomato
breeder: Li Xiaodong who acts as the company's general manager and also the
director of Xi'an Emperor Institute of Vegetable which is a part of Xi'an
Jinpeng. With a powerful R&D team led by Li Xiaodong, Xi'an Jinpeng has
continuously developed a series of tomato varieties with good commodity and
excellent resistance to relevant diseases and pests.
"Jinpeng 1", Xi'an Jinpeng's pink
tomato variety with great tolerance for storage and transportation, has been
well recognized by domestic growers. After being planted for over ten years,
"Jinpeng 1" still occupies a high market share in northwestern and
eastern areas.
"Jinpeng M6", another excellent
pink tomato variety of Xi'an Jinpeng bred in 2008, presents a great resistance
to Meloidogyne. In May 2011, "Jinpeng M6" obtained the appraisal of
Crop Variety Approval Committee in Shaanxi
Province
Eyeing the widespread tomato yellow leaf curl
virus (TY), Xi'an Jinpeng has successfully cultivated some anti-TY pink tomato
varieties since 2010, such as "Jinpeng 10" and "Jinpeng
11". With excellent resistance and fine commodity, Xi'an Jinpeng's anti-TY
tomato varieties have been well recognized in the market.
"Our existing anti-TY tomato varieties
are only achievements of transition," said Li Xiaodong, "and we shall
take commodity improvement as the primary objective of tomato breeding: taking
into account the disease and pest resistance under the premise of ensuring the
commodity of tomato."
Mr. Li believes that there are almost no
excellent pink tomato varieties at home which can perfectly combine TY
resistance and good commodity mainly covering appearance, flavor and nutrition
quality. In his opinion, numerous tomato varieties of domestic and foreign
companies have been in a tangled warfare, none of which have occupied absolute
advantage. However, Mr. Li considers that the status of tangled warfare would
not last too long, in view of the increasing efforts of breeders in tomato
variety improvement.
"Tomato growers have gained more and
more experience for preventing and controlling TY, and thus the resistance to
TY would not be so important for tomato breeding in future," said Mr. Li.
In course of development, Xi'an Jinpeng's
biggest obstacle is the infringement from other illegal operators, rather than
the great competitiveness of multinational seed companies. Some tomato seeds of
Xi'an Jinpeng like "Jinpeng 1" and "Jinpeng M6" have
suffered infringement in varying degrees, which has caused great loss to Xi'an
Jinpeng. According to Mr. Li, the company wishes more protection over
intellectual property rights from the government in future.
As for the competition between domestic and
foreign companies, Mr. Li considers that it is also a mutual promotion. While
crowding domestic seed players, multinational seed companies have brought
abundant germplasm resources and advanced management concepts to domestic
counterparts.
At present, Xi'an Jinpeng mainly markets
tomato seeds in the north part of China Guangdong , Guangxi , Fujian and Hainan .
Revealed by Mr. Li, Xi'an Jinpeng has not bred appropriate varieties for
southern areas and it will increase corresponding R&D efforts to develop
southern market.
Source:
Seed China
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_28.html
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