In the Beginning...
…there were breeders who had chaos in their
breeding program so they created order
with a database called
TreePlasm
and it was good!
They needed tools
and skills as custodians of
the precious resource….
Breeding data
and pedigree
management
Biotechnology
data
management
Multi trait,
multi site
BLUP
Breeding and
genetics
courses
Strategies, reviews
and assistance with
breeding programs
Steve is married to Sabine and they have three children. He is a quantitative geneticist and has mainly been working in forestry tree breeding research since 1990.
Cyndi worked in Pine and Eucalypt breeding at the CSIR for 15 years, where she was a senior researcher. She has been working for Creation Breeding Innovations since March 2019.
She has a B.Sc (hons) in Forestry (cum laude) from the University of Stellenbosch (1996) and a M.Sc. in Quantitative Genetics (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria (2001).
Approximately 90% of our electric energy is accounted for by solar. This saves approx. 6 ton of carbon emissions per year (the weight of a large male African elephant)
My wife, Sabine, is a Mineralogist and I am an Quantitative Geneticist, and we each have our own businesses in our professions. We found surprising synergy in the use of Sabine’s X-ray diffraction machine for analysing wood samples. (Historically X-ray diffraction was used in the discovery of the double helix!)