High Phytase Cereals

Tech ID: 12.533

Key Features

  • “HighPhy”: High Phytase Wheat
  • Non-GM wheat with seed phytase levels 5-8x the levels commonly seen in wheat
  • Demonstrated enhanced P-uptake in animal trials
  • Benefits for animal feed, human nutrition and the environment

Description

Non-GM wheat with seed phytase levels 5-8x the levels commonly seen in wheat. Benefits for animal feed, human nutrition and the environment. Avoid costs of synthetic phytase feed additives. Significantly reduced phytate in grain-based human diets. Germplasm and methods for easily breeding and selecting this valuable trait.

For further detailed information please download the non-confidential summary pdf.

Patents

Published: WO2012/146597; EP 2702156; US 2017/0081648 A1

Granted: US 9,540,633; AU 2012247609, CA 2,834,060

References

Scholey D et al (2017).  P and Ca digestibility is increased in broiler diets supplemented with the high-phytase HIGHPHY wheat.  Animal; 11(9): 1457-1463.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731117000544

Dionisio et al (2011).  Cloning and Characterization of Purple Acid Phosphatase Phytases from Wheat, Barley, Maize, and Rice.  Plant Physiology; 156(3), 1087-1100.  https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.110.164756

Contact: Dr Jan Chojecki

Inventors
Dr Henrik Brinch-Pedersen
Aarhus University (Denmark)