Biotechnology is the key technology of the 21rst century. One of its most important methods is genetic engineering: very important for new pathology diagnosis and therapy procedures, as well as for the development of pharmaceutical agents and the production of healthy food.
Precise knowledge of the plant genome gives us the ability to be able to improve plants faster and more specifically than with conventional breeding methods. GABI stands for Genome Analysis of the Plant Biological System and is an associative project supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Research and Technology as well as a number private enterprise companies. These companies are grouped under the Business Platform promoting Plant Genome Research GABI e.V. A Patent and Licence Agency associated with GABI has the task of commercialising and protecting research results by means of licence rights.