Kunshan Keteng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (referred to as Keteng Company) was founded by Dr. Lu Maolong, who returned from Monsanto Company in the United States. It is a high-tech enterprise mainly engaged in biotechnology crop breeding, especially transgenic crop breeding and crop breeding with modern technology.
The core members of the technical team of Keteng Company come from many famous agricultural companies in the United States and famous research institutions in China, all of whom have doctoral degrees or senior titles, and have world-class experience in crop transgenic and crop breeding industrialization. They have presided over more than 2 national-level crop transgenic and crop breeding industrialization projects in the United States and Canada, and won 17 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, such as the first prize of China National Science and Technology Progress Award and the first prize of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries.
Keteng Company is headquartered in Kunshan, with two branches and two experimental branches: Nantong Branch, Jilin Branch, Anhui Branch and Sanya Branch in Hainan Province. Keteng Corporation has 6, square meters of experimental sites and 5, mu of agricultural fields, which are used for corn, cotton and other crop breeding and seed breeding. Nantong Branch owns more than 1, square meters of premises, including 2, square meters of laboratories, 8, square meters of crop seed identification and storage, and rents 186 mu of experimental land for corn, cotton and other crops breeding, breeding and preparing high-yield double-leaf-ear corn hybrids suitable for planting in Huang-Huai-Hai region. Engaged in maize and cotton breeding in Anhui, especially breeding and preparing high-yield double-leaf ear maize hybrids suitable for planting in Huang-Huai-Hai region. Established Jilin Branch with Jilin Huayu Company, engaged in research and development of corn and other new crop products, breeding and preparing super-high-yield double-leaf ear corn hybrids suitable for planting in Northeast China. Sanya, Hainan Province, has a breeding site in the south, which is mainly responsible for the generation of excellent varieties and speeding up the breeding progress.
Not long ago, Keteng Company acquired the cotton company directly under the Jiangsu Provincial Agriculture Committee. The acquisition projects included seven varieties of cotton company, one variety to be tested, five varieties undergoing regional trials or safety production experiments, more than 2 high-quality breeding materials, four trademarks, 45, kilograms of seeds and all instruments and equipment.
Keteng Company has established a world-class crop transgenic platform and gained world-class experience in crop transgenic and crop breeding industrialization. The company has made several major scientific and technological breakthroughs in crop transgenic, cloned a variety of independent intellectual property rights genes with important application value, and is the second company in the world to clone DMO genes resistant to dicamba. It is engaged in the industrialization of insect-resistant, saline-alkali-resistant, drought-resistant and herbicide-resistant transgenic and transgenic crop breeding projects for corn, rice, cotton, soybean, wheat and other crops, which has great practical significance for increasing grain output, reducing pesticide use, reducing environmental pollution, improving food quality and improving agricultural productivity.
Keteng Company is also engaged in the breeding of corn, rice, cotton, soybean, wheat and other crops. For example, it invented corn with double leaves and ears, which is another major scientific and technological innovation. Compared with ordinary corn, Keteng Company has the advantages of double leaves and ears, and it has great potential for high yield, high quality and versatility. The maize yield of newly cultivated maize hybrids is 2-7% higher than that of the current control species.