Wageningen, February 13, 2012

PhenoFab plant research facility of German-Dutch consortium receives an investment of Food Future
The companies LemnaTec (Germany) and KeyGene (the Netherlands) have received a major investment for their joint PhenoFab R&D facility of Food Future. Food Future is an INTERREG project of the European Union, stimulating and supporting international and innovative cooperation between companies in North Rhine Westphalia (Germany) and East Netherlands. The investment is meant for the development of new methods in the field of digital 3D imaging of crops growing on a robotized conveyor belt. The research performed in the PhenoFab greenhouse facility, aims at the development of improved crops like tomato and pepper, but also maize and rice. Major targets of improvements are higher yield, better nutritional quality, contributions to health and enhanced sustainability of crop production. The PhenoFab R&D facility is one of the first commercial facilities in this field and has become operational in 2011, at KeyGenes facilities in Wageningen based on LemnaTec technology. Roger van Hoesel of Food Valley about the collaboration: We are very proud that KeyGene and LemnaTec have esthablished this PhenoFab facility and we have strongly supported this initiative. This kind of interregional Dutch-German innovation initiatives fits perfectly within the mission of Food Valley, to stimulate knowledge-intensive activities in our region. It also contributes to solutions for the development of new crops and helps to reduce or prevent problems in agro food production.
About LemnaTec LemnaTec based near Aachen (Germany) has worked in scientific image processing since 1998 and installs leading phenotyping systems in facilities all over the world. LemnaTecs team of degreed scientists developsintegrated hardand software solutions for the automated evaluation of bio tests in ecotoxicology and for high-throughput and high-content screening of plants, seedlings, insects and other organisms for chemical substances.The automated plant handling and image analysis systemsfor thousand and more plants in greenhouses and growth chambers meet the needs of todays research and industry. LemnaTec enables customers to design and develop products suitable for future biological and agricultural challenges. LemnaTecs aim is to visualize, analyze and quantify biology that lies beyond human vision. For more information please contact: info@lemnatec.com Phone: +49 2405 4126-0, or visit www.lemnatec.com About KeyGene KeyGene is a privately owned, innovative molecular genetics Ag Biotech company with a primary focus on the improvement of 6F (Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel, Flowers and Fun) crops. KeyGenes passion is a Green Gene Revolution approach to explore and exploit existing and induced natural genetic variation in vegetable and other 6F crops. KeyGene delivers sustainable responses to the worlds needs for yield stability & quality of vegetable and field crops. We help our strategic partners with cutting edge breeding technologies and plant based trait platforms to meet their needs.We perform strategic and applied research with more than 135 employees from all over the world, with state of the art facilities and equipment.KeyGene has its headquarters in Wageningen, the Netherlands, a subsidiary in Rockville, USA and a Joint Lab with the Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences in Shanghai, China. For more information please contact: niclaudi.boons@keygene.com. Phone: +31 317 466 866, or visit: www.keygene.com For more information about PhenoFab: www. phenofab.com or info@phenofab.com

KeyGene is a registered trademark of Keygene N.V. PhenoFab is a registered trademark of Keygene N.V. and Lemnatec GmbH in one or more territories in the world.