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Biodiversity is not just a concept for seed companies like Seminis. It's one of our greatest assets, and the source of our innovation.
Seminis has inherited the seeds and knowledge collected from more than 600 years of combined experience. Today, we are preserving 1.5 million breeding lines — one of the world's largest collections of vegetable and fruit seeds, known as germplasm. In short, this diversity makes our work possible.
Wild Relatives
We are always looking for new traits that are still locked in the vast reservoir of the wild relatives of cultivated vegetables. Today, Seminis is developing "super broccoli" with three times more cancer-fighting compounds than varieties currently grown. This breakthrough resulted from a trait discovered in a wild broccoli plant growing in the Mediterranean region.
