Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed, located near Vernon, is a self-supporting, nonprofit unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. It serves as the liaison between AgriLife Research plant breeding programs and seed companies interested in licensing plant varieties, while also producing and marketing genetically pure seeds of new cultivars developed by AgriLife Research scientists.
Foundation Seed provides production and seed conditioning services to public and private breeding programs, aids in handling business aspects of research commercialization, and manages executed license agreements and compliance issues. It also serves as the sales and marketing vehicle for USDA Plant Materials Centers in Texas.
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