![]() The persons who started this, chamber office director privy councillor DI (graduate engineer) Heinrich Hornich, head of the plant cultivation department of the chamber of agriculture OLR DI Walter Czerwinka director and DI Fritz Mayerl, who was responsible for maize breeding, recognised the opportunities for maize cultivation and decided to set up their own seed breeding institute in Styria. |
![]() In those days, the demand for hybrid maize seeds for the Austrian market was approximately 4000 tons - 50% of this originated from Gleisdorf varieties. The first licencings of Gleisdorf varieties for the international market took place in Germany, Yugoslavia and Great Britain. |
![]() The development of new efficient Gleisdorf varieties stood at the heart of the cultivation program. Following the retirement of DI Rath, DI Johanna Winkler assumed the main responsibility for oil pumpkin, field beans, soya beans and special crops. DI Johann Plienegger initiated a new maize cultivation program, founded on the latest accepted breeding methods. |
![]() A further step in the cooperation of international breeding took place with the accession of the Gleisdorf Seed Breeding Institute to the Munich-based IG Plant breeding Institute. As a member of this society, the Gleisdorf Seed Breeding Institute can more effectively assume the role of agents for grain variety testing and take over the representation of variety property rights on behalf of the members of the IG plant breeding institute in Austria. |
![]() A new cold storage for breeding material and basic seed 400 m2 (2.400 m3) for 700 tons of storage capacity
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Services: • Basis seed production • Maintenance breeding • Production of experimental hybrids • Yield tests • Observation tests and disease rating • Exchange testing • Selective breeding tasks |