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JOINT PRECOMPETITIVE RESEARCH BY 5 WORLD LEADING COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC PARTNERS A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR ANIMAL BREEDING A.L.J. Vereijken (Hendrix Genetics) WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

5 LEADERS IN THE FIELD TOP 2 BROILERS DAIRY & BEEF TOP 5 CATTLE LAYERS, TURKEYS, PIGS, TOP 1 ‐ 4 SALMON,TROUT PIGS TOP 3 RESEARCH & TOP 4 EDUCATION Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre TITEL 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

DUTCH ANIMAL BREEDERS GENERATE A TURNOVER OF 600M€ AND INVEST 60M€ IN R&D ANNUALLY CRV Hendrix TOPIGS Cobb Genetics Europe Turnover (M€) 150 300 100 55 Employees 1.500 2.400 550 180 Employees in NL 800 130 200 80 Species Dairy Cattle Layer Pig Broiler Meat Cattle Turkey Pig Salmon Trout 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

PRIVATE R&D SPENDING ON CROP SEED AND ANIMAL BREEDING IN USA (MILLION US$) 2500 2000 1500 Crop seed 1000 Animal breeding 500 0 1960 1975 1982 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 4 From: USDA ‐ ERS report no 130, December 2011 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

ANIMAL BREEDING 1 Animal breeding plays a crucial role in the production of high- quality animal protein for a growing world population. ■ Animal breeding requires high investments and long-term commitment  to meet changing consumer demands,  to increase productivity and efficiency in the food chain,  to reduce the ecological foot print,  to limit the use of antibiotics to contribute to food safety and better health and welfare of livestock. 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

ANIMAL BREEDING 2 Animal breeding is knowledge intensive. ■ The ‘genomic revolution’ rapidly opens new opportunities for innovation and scientific research. ■ This enables breeding companies and WUR to expand their world leading role and competitive position through focus on improving food security and new traits needed for sustainable, future animal production chains. 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

ORGANISATION (1) Board of R&D directors of companies Directors + ABGC director Director Breed4Food Paid by 5 partners B4F working group Senior researchers representing all partners Project 1 Project 2 Project n TITEL 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

ORGANISATION (2) ■ Partnership contract between 5 parties  Minimum annual cash contribution to B4F research by all industrial partners  Total budget 2015 about 3.5 Million (cash, in kind, public)  B4F project = when 2 or more partners collaborate and share results  4 years minimum commitment of all partners  Detailed arrangements for each project TITEL 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

THE BREED4FOOD RESEARCH PROGRAMME 1 Application of Genetics/Genomics Product development Added value in New traits the food chain 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

THE BREED4FOOD RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2 Sub Exploiting (DNA) Enabling new Added value in the food Program information breeding goal traits chain Research 1. Optimal use of sequence 1. Improving resource 1. Data from the production Theme information in breeding efficiency chain for sustainable programs animal production 2. Disease resistance 2. A common ICT and intestinal health 2. New products and services infrastructure for the production chain 3. (A)cross breed genomic selection 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

TOP PRIORITIES 1 USE OF (NON-)ADDITIVE EFFECTS IN BREEDING SCHEMES ■ Improve accuracy of genomic selection using sequence information ■ Across-breed and across-line genomic prediction ■ Develop genomic prediction models for optimal use of non-additive effects in cross-breeding schemes ■ Design of best genomic selection programs which exploit crossbred information and non-additive genetic effects TITEL 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

TOP PRIORITIES 2 TRACING BACK OF FARM DATA ON NOVEL TRAITS ■ Allow breakdown to markets and products and allow precision breeding and management ■ Collect data on farms, processing plants ■ Deal with crossbred offspring of pure lines  Algorithms to determine line of origin for haplotypes/alleles  Develop and test genomic prediction models including genotypic and phenotypic information to predict crossbred performance TITEL 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

B4F ACHIEVEMENTS ■ Exchange and interaction between company R&D and WUR researchers ■ HPC Agronomics, ■ STW partnership, first multicompany partnership for STW ■ Collaboration with pps Feed4Foodure; WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITY • Direct access for scientists and partners • Exchange on experiences and used software TITEL 19-3-2015 WWW.BREED4FOOD.COM

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