CGM™
Background:
Most plants are diploids - meaning that they have 2 sets of chromosomes in each cell nucleus. Some plants are polyploid - meaning that they have more than two sets of chromosomes in each cell nucleus.
Typically, naturally occurring polyploids exhibit several advantages over their diploid equivalents: they are larger, more robust and more climate-tolerant.
These advantages have long inspired scientists and breeders to try to induce polyploidy in economically important plant varieties by artificial methods such as colchicine treatment, nitrous oxide treatment, and temperature shock. But these methods, invariably, damage the original plant DNA, and the resultant polyploids exhibit deformities, instability, reduced fertility, and reduced rates of biomass accumulation.
Clean Genomic Multiplication:
CGM™ (Clean Genomic Multiplication) - a biotechnology platform developed by KAIIMA induces clean polyploidy in plants. CGM™ is a proprietary set of protocols and methods that direct the active chemicals used in the genome-multiplication process away from the sensitive DNA, which stays unharmed - keeping the plant fertile and genetically stable.
Advantages of Kaiima's CGM™ technology include:
- Bigger plants
- More primary and secondary metabolites per volume
- Higher plant yield potential
- Greater biomass accumulation per unit time
- Greater biomass accumulation per unit water
- Enhanced photosynthesis
- Improved adaptability to extreme climates
- Improved resistance to osmotic stress: dryness, salinity
- Improved resistance to extreme pH and soil toxicity
CGM™ is an instance of a wider technology platform developed in Kaiima to affect the genome in a non-transgenic manner while reducing peripheral damage to the plant's DNA.
