Global Seed Industry: 2006 edition

Table of Contents

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Seed Industry - company acquisitions
  • 1.2.1 Monsanto
  • 1.2.2 DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred
  • 1.2.3 Syngenta
  • 1.2.4 Dow AgroSciences
  • 1.2.5 Bayer
  • 1.2.6 BASF
  • 1.2.7 Other companies
  • 1.2.8 New entrants
• 1.3 Licensing companies
• 1.4 Licensing agreements
• 1.5 Foundation seed companies
• 1.6 New markets
  • 1.6.1 Input traits
  • 1.6.2 End-user or output traits
  • 1.6.3 Organic crops

• 2.1 Global market
• 2.2 Asia/Pacific
  • 2.2.1 China
  • 2.2.2 India
  • 2.2.3 Japan
  • 2.2.4 Thailand
  • 2.2.5 Other countries
• 2.3 Europe
  • 2.3.1 France
• 2.4 North America
  • 2.4.1 US
  • 2.4.2 Canada
• 2.5 Latin America
  • 2.5.1 Brazil
  • 2.5.2 Chile
  • 2.5.3 Mexico
  • 2.5.4 Paraguay
• 2.6 Africa
  • 2.6.1 South Africa

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Royal Barenbrug Group
• 3.3 Bayer BioScience
• 3.4 China National Seed Group Corporation (CNSGC)
• 3.5 Delta and Pine Land Company
• 3.6 DLF-Trifolium
• 3.7 Dow Agrosciences
• 3.8 Florimond Desprez
• 3.9 KWS SAAT
• 3.10 Land O' Lakes
• 3.11 Limagrain
• 3.12 Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Co Ltd, Mahyco Seeds Ltd, Mahyco Vegetables Seeds Ltd (MAHYCO)
• 3.13 Monsanto
• 3.14 Pannar
• 3.15 Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
• 3.16 RAGT Semences SA
• 3.17 Saaten-Union GmbH
• 3.18 Sakata Seed Corporation
• 3.19 Svalof Weibull AB
• 3.20 Syngenta
• 3.21 Takii & Co Ltd

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Field Crops
  • 4.2.1 Cotton
  • 4.2.2 Maize
  • 4.2.3 Rapeseed
  • 4.2.4 Rice
  • 4.2.5 Soybeans
  • 4.2.6 Sugar beet
  • 4.2.7 Wheat
  • 4.2.8 Vegetables
• 4.3 Forage and Grass Species
• 4.4 Flowers

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Germplasm
• 5.3 The International Treaty on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
• 5.4 Plant breeding
• 5.5 Mutation breeding
• 5.6 Doubled haploid breeding or haplodiploidisation
• 5.7 Chromosome doubling
• 5.8 Seed quality, size and performance
• 5.9 Seed storage
• 5.10 Biotechnology
  • 5.10.1 Molecular markers
  • 5.10.2 Genomics
  • 5.10.3 GM technology
  • 5.10.4 Gene shuffling and evolution
  • 5.10.5 New transgenic developments/GM traits
  • 5.10.6 Gene flow

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Definition of seed treatment
• 6.3 Target Pests and Diseases for Seed Treatment by Major Crop
  • 6.3.1 Cereals
  • 6.3.2 Cotton
  • 6.3.3 Maize
  • 6.3.4 Potatoes
  • 6.3.5 Rapeseed/Canola
  • 6.3.6 Rice
  • 6.3.7 Soybeans
  • 6.3.8 Sugar beet
  • 6.3.9 Vegetables and other crops
• 6.4 Seed treatment products
• 6.5 Key active ingredients
  • 6.5.1 Fungicides
  • 6.5.2 Insecticides
  • 6.5.3 Nematicides
  • 6.5.4 Herbicide safeners
• 6.6 Biological control agents
• 6.7 Inoculants and Rhizobia
• 6.8 Major companies supplying seed treatment products
• 6.9 Functional seed treatment
  • 6.9.1 Specialist seed enhancement companies
• 6.10 Recent seed treatment product introductions

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Seed Laws
  • 7.2.1 US
• 7.3 OECD Seed Schemes
• 7.4 Certification Process
  • 7.4.1 The Association of Seed Certifying Agencies
  • 7.4.2 International Seed Testing Association
  • 7.4.3 Examples of seed certification procedures
• 7.5 Phytosanitary certificates
• 7.6 Seed treatment
• 7.7 GM regulatory issues
  • 7.7.1 US
  • 7.7.2 European Union
  • 7.7.3 India
  • 7.7.4 China

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 GM acceptance
• 8.3 Biotech traits
• 8.4 Intellectual property rights
  • 8.4.1 Plant Variety Protection
  • 8.4.2 Plant patents
  • 8.4.3 Further methods of protecting intellectual property
• 8.5 Increased productivity
• 8.6 Government and public sector policy
• 8.7 Farm-saved seed
• 8.8 Dealer and distributor motivation
• 8.9 End-user traits
• 8.10 Biofuels - ethanol and biodiesel
  • 8.10.1 Ethanol
  • 8.10.2 Biodiesel
• 8.11 Market Fit

REFERENCES

• Table 1.1 Major acquisitions by the Monsanto group
• Table 1.2 Acquisitions by DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred
• Table 1.3 Syngenta' s acquisitions
• Table 1.4 Acquisitions by Dow AgroSciences
• Table 1.5 Acquisitions and divestments by Bayer
• Table 1.6 Acquisitions by BASF
• Table 1.7 Acquisitions by various companies
• Table 2.1 Domestic seed sales by region
• Table 2.2 Asia/Pacific' s seed sales, exports and imports
• Table 2.3 India' s cotton, wheat and rice crops
• Table 2.4 Europe' s seed sales, exports and imports
• Table 2.5 French seed sales
• Table 2.6 North American seed sales, exports and imports
• Table 2.7 US seed sales
• Table 2.9 Africa' s seed sales, exports and imports
• Table 3.1 Top 10 global seed companies, 2004-2005 ($ million)
• Table 3.2 Syngenta' s 2005 sales by region
• Table 4.1 Cotton production worldwide
• Table 4.2 Maize production worldwide
• Table 4.3 Rapeseed production worldwide
• Table 4.4 Rice production worldwide
• Table 4.5 Soybean production worldwide
• Table 4.6 Sugar beet production worldwide
• Table 4.7 Wheat production worldwide
• Table 4.8 Vegetable production worldwide
• Table 6.1 Examples of DMI fungicides
• Table 6.2 Recently launched seed treatment products
• Table 8.1 Results of retailer survey (sales and profits)