Huazhi Rice Bio-Tech Company Information

Huazhi Rice Bio-Tech Co., Ltd (“Huazhi”) is a fast growing company in China, focusing on providing high quality service to seed industry to help the breeding and discovery programs. The company was founded in 2013 by 12 Chinese seed companies including Longping Hi-Tech, Fengle Seed, Shennong Dafeng, China Seed group etc. Locating in Changsha city, Hunan province, where hybrid rice was firstly developed in the world, Huazhi aims to provide the best techniques to the seed industry globally. The main research area and services include the following: Molecular breeding Development of whole-genome markers and chips Development of trait-specific （functional）markers Development of strategy on marker-assisted breeding Fingerprinting for germplasm characterization Construction of genetic map, QTL mapping, and gene cloning Whole-genome selection and prediction Germplasm improvement Establishment of standard research procedures for germplasm research and ISO certification Integrated germplasm bank and database for elite rice germplasm Creation of elite rice gremplasm for commercial rice breeding Bioinformatics Gene structure prediction and function characterization Next Generation Sequence analysis and SNP discovery Breeding and Agriculture Big Data management Experiment design and statistical analysis Customized software Lab and Field automation Product testing “Green channel” for rice variety certification based on product testing platform Standardization of testing procedures according to ecological zones or groups Creation of strict product testing standard, and improvement of product testing system Product testing and evaluation of target traits using statistics software Disciplined product testing service with close supervision and justification Huazhi is committed to grow into a top tier biotech R&D center to to help feeding the world! Please visit our website for more infomation.