Xi'an Jinpeng fully opened an R&D center in early 2012 to accelerate tomato breeding process, according to CCM International’s June Issue of Seed China News.

1. Xi'an Jinpeng Intends to Lead Domestic Tomato Breeding
Summary: Xi'an Jinpeng fully opened an R&D center in early 2012 to accelerate tomato
breeding process, according to CCM International’s June Issue of Seed China News.
Tags: seed, tomato, breeding, tomato breeding, R&D, tomato seed, Xi'an Jinpeng
Xi'an Jinpeng Seed Co., Ltd. (Xi'an Jinpeng), a prominent tomato seed supplier in China, fully
opened an R&D center in early 2012. The R&D center, located in the Modern Agriculture
Demonstration Garden of Yangling City, Shaanxi Province, is committed to tomato research and
commercialized breeding. When the construction of R&D center was launched in 2010, a new
company named Shaanxi Jinpeng Seed Co., Ltd. was formally incorporated in Yangling City, with
registered capital of USD1.58 million (RMB10 million), which acts as the special R&D department
of Xi'an Jinpeng, according to CCM International’s June Issue of Seed China News.
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.

2. "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. Revealed by Li Xiaodong, the planting area of
"Jinpeng M6" at home has seen steady growth in recent years.
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.

3. At present, Xi'an Jinpeng mainly markets tomato seeds in the north part of China. The company
still has a weak development capability for the market of southern areas mainly covering
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 News 1206
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_28.html
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