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26 Fourth Quarter 2012

t e c h n o l o g y s u p p l i e r

Performance Plants, Inc. trait technologies mitigate effects of heat and drought stress.

very near future,” says Dr. Yafan Huang, President and Chief Scientific Officer. “In addition to licensing agreements in China and with major North American players, we are aggressively pursuing agreements in other emerging super-power countries like India and Brazil.”

ppi technologies • Yield Protection Technology® (YPT®) “This advanced technology enables plants to better tolerate drought condi-tions and to produce higher seed yield under limited water conditions,” says Dr. Huang.

• Heat & Drought Tolerance Tech-nology (HDT™) preserves yield by enhancing plants’ tolerance to heat, drought, or combined stresses.

• Water Use Efficiency Enhancement Technology (WET™) allows plants to maintain high productivity through ex-tended periods of limited available water.

• Yield Enhancement Technology (YET™) can boost seed yield under both optimal and stress growth conditions.

• Biomass Enhancement Technol-ogy (BET™) is suited for large biomass applications such as biomass feedstock (for cellulosic ethanol and coal replace-ment) as well as fiber and forage for more biomass by boosting vegetative plant growth.

collaborations and AgreementsPPI has established multiple technol-ogy licensing and product development and commericalization agreements in a variety of crops with international com-panies including DuPont Pioneer, Bayer CropScience, Stine Seeds, RiceTec, Scotts Miracle Gro, DBN Technology Group, and Biocentury Transgene (China).

In addition, the Company has also licensed its YPT technology to Africa Harvest for development of drought tolerant white corn for humanitarian purpose.

Joe Funk, editor

PERFORMANCE PLANTS, INC. (PPI) is a privately held agricultural biotechnology company focused on development of second generation plant traits through its gene discovery and trait development program that weather-proofs crop plants through periods of drought and heat stress.

PPI currently has five validated tech-nologies at various stages of commercial development. Working with interna-tional partners, these technologies have been coupled with elite, high yielding germplasm and are being field tested in several crops.

“We expect to commercialize our first corn and cotton crop products in the

performance plants, inc.Developing technologies to “weatherproof” crop plants

performance plants, inc.

Kingston, Ontario613-545-0390

www.performanceplants.com

Key personnel• Dr. Yafan Huang, President and Chief

Scientific Officer• Dr. Jiangxin Wan, Director of Research• Shirley Kwakkenbos CA, Director of

Finance

company profile• Gene discovery evaluation and devel-

opment of plant traits for improve-ment of crop productivity.

• Products include value enhanced stress technologies, yield protection tech-nologies, heat and drought stress tol-erance technologies, and technologies for seed and biomass enhancement.

• Founded 1995.

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