新品种Reb-A有高水平的收益率

2014年12月1日——S&W种子公司宣布,已经提交了一份专利申请给美国专利和商标办公室。
SW107甜叶菊植物品种。 SW107中Reb-A浓度增加,后味几乎没有。 SW107适合在北美,南美和世界其他地区。

公司认为,改善甜叶菊品种,像SW107,增加产量和Reb A含量会是非常理想的商机。

 SW107与过去甜叶菊有许多差异,如增强叶产量、Reb-A含量、味道、植物活力,包括适宜越冬和不过早开花。 大田试验在美国西部,SW107与目前常规的品种相比较，大约增产40%的叶子、60% Reb-A等。 S&W认为这些结果加上一种改进的回味,意味着SW107将在经济上更具吸引农民种植。公司将开始寻求终端消费产品公司、原料制造商等协作。

S&W种子公司首席执行官马克•Grewal 说:“这个专利申请标志我们甜叶菊发展项目的一个重要里程碑。在过去的五年甜叶菊需求巨大的增长,食品生产商和加工商表示渴望有中国以外的甜菊叶保证生产的需求量。 由于SW107叶质量越高,增加了产量,Reb-A比例高及其改善味道和植物活力的特点,我们认为迄今为止，SW107对北美和南美的农民和生产者是个经济挑战。”

2009年开始，国际公认的甜叶菊专家克林特博士指导下， S&W的甜叶菊研发团队经过筛选数百甜叶菊植物,其中许多是多年来收集的，获得了SW107。  S&W的研究和开发团队希望开发其他新的品种,有截然不同的植物的属性,可以解决其他市场需求。 

迄今为止,甜叶菊种植和提取物加工主要是在中国,南美有一小部分。 SW107最初是针对在北美和南美, S&W认为SW107将有利于甜叶菊大规模商业化。。

关于S&W种子公司
S&W种子公司成立于1980年,是全球农业公司,总部设在加州中央谷。 公司是世界上最大的生产无休眠苜蓿种子品种, 该公司已在全球范围内销售和分销通过直接销售力量以及dealer-distributors。 此外,该公司利用其研究和育种专业开发和生产美国 的甜菊叶。 有关更多信息,请访问www.swseedco.com

FIVE POINTS, Calif., Dec. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- S&W Seed Company (SANW) today announced it has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for stevia plant variety "SW107."  Variety SW107 exhibits increased concentrations of Reb-A sweetener, higher leaf mass production and an improved taste profile that has little or no aftertaste. SW107 has been bred to address commercial processing markets in North America, South America, and other regions of the world that have climates suitable for it.

Companies producing consumer food products, as well as ingredient manufacturers, recognize the value of stevia as an all-natural sweetener in beverage, dairy, baking and snack products. Stevia's health benefits include zero calories and minimal glycemic impact and stability when heated. Since the primary sweetener used in stevia-based products, Reb A, comes 100% from agricultural sources, the Company believes that improved stevia varieties, like SW107, with increased yield and Reb A content will be very desirable commercially. 

The Company believes SW107 is well qualified to be successful in the commercial market. SW107 has a number of differentiating factors, including enhanced leaf yield, Reb-A output, and taste profile, as well as plant vigor that includes superior overwintering and later flowering attributes compared with the majority of the plant population from which the line was derived. In field trials throughout the western United States, SW107 yielded approximately 40% more leaf, 60% more Reb-A content, and more than a 100% increase in the Reb-A to stevioside ratio, as compared to test samples from stevia varieties now in mainstream production. S&W believes these results, coupled with an improved aftertaste profile, mean that SW107 will be economically attractive to stevia farmers and to the commercial volume stevia processing community.  With the filing of this patent application, the Company will begin seeking agreements with consumer products companies, ingredient manufacturers and stevia mass processors. 

Mark Grewal, chief executive officer of S&W Seed Company, commented, "This patent application marks a significant milestone in our stevia development program. With the huge growth in demand for stevia in the last five years since we entered the industry, food manufacturers and processors have expressed a desire for reliable sources of stevia leaf production outside of China. Due to the higher leaf mass of SW107, which adds to yield, the high Reb-A percentage, and its improved taste and plant vigor characteristics, we believe SW107 addresses many of the economic challenges that farmers and producers in North and South America have faced to date."

Variety SW107 was classically bred from germplasm that is proprietary to S&W's stevia program that first commenced in 2009 under the direction of Dr. Clint Shock, who is an internationally recognized expert on stevia. S&W's stevia research and development team has crossed hundreds of lines of stevia plants, many of which were collected over many years, with a goal of developing stevia varieties that have unique properties for commercialization. The Company is optimistic that SW107 will be followed by other promising varieties.  S&W's research and development team hopes to develop other new varieties that have distinctly different sets of plant attributes and can address other market needs.  SW107 initially is targeted at North and South America, where stevia plant production has been somewhat limited. 

To date, stevia production and extraction has largely been based in China and, to a lesser extent, South America. SW107 initially is targeted to be produced in North America and South America, where there have been insignificant commercial quantities grown due to farming economics. S&W believes SW107 will facilitate the growth of stevia in mass commercial quantities in these regions due to its high plant productivity (yield) and enhanced levels of Reb-A to extract.

About S&W Seed Company
Founded in 1980, S&W Seed Company is a global agricultural company, headquartered in the Central Valley of California. The company is the largest producer of non-dormant alfalfa seed varieties in the world, with production operations in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys of California, as well as in South Australia. The company has worldwide sales and distribution through both a direct sales force as well as dealer-distributors.  The company's proprietary varieties are designed to meet the shifting needs of farmers that require high performance in poor and highly saline soil conditions and have been verified over decades of university-sponsored trials.  Additionally, the company is utilizing its research and breeding expertise to develop and produce U.S.-based stevia leaf.  Stevia is an all-natural, zero calorie sweetener for the food and beverage industry. For more information, please visit www.swseedco.com.
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