Ornamental Bioscience GmbH

Ornamental Bioscience is a new joint venture based in Stuttgart in which the German Selecta Group and the US company Mendel Biotechnology Inc. both have a stake. The company develops and markets transgenic ornamental plants.

Ornamental Bioscience combines Mendel’s technological know-how in the field of drought, cold, frost and pathogen resistance with Selecta’s experience in the field of cultivation, production and sale of ornamental plants. Ornamental Bioscience has so far transformed and tested plant species from the Selecta product range such as petunias, poinsettias, New Guinea impatiens (Busy Lizzies) and geraniums. Now, further species are to be added through cooperation arrangements with other cultivators.

Family business Selecta Klemm GmbH & Co. KG is one of the world’s leading cultivation and propagation companies for vegetatively reproducible ornamental plants. Selecta has acquired numerous patents and plant variety protection rights for cut flowers and bedding, balcony and pot plants over the past 40 years. The company has seven main sites worldwide with production, cultivation and sales facilities; the headquarters are in Stuttgart.

Selecta has been active in biotechnology since 1996. Selecta Klemm was involved in the Australian company Florigene’s development of the blue carnation, which is as yet the only transgenic ornamental plant that has been approved for marketing in Europe.

Ornamental Bioscience GmbH
Hanfäcker 10
70378 Stuttgart
Germany

P +49 711 9532588
F +49 711 9532540

info [at] ornamental-bioscience [dot] com
http://www.ornamental-bioscience.com