Burchell Breeding Inc.

FEED THE WORLD WITH ALMONDS AND STONE FRUIT

In 2021 Burchell Breeding, Inc. (BBI) was created to emphasize our commitment to expanding the geographical areas of the world where our patented varieties of fruit and nut trees could be grown in order to provide all their nutritional benefits to as many people globally as possible.  The name Burchell has been associated with the growing and breeding of almonds and stone fruit for over 80 years.  With BBI we are investing significant capital resources (both human and financial) toward finding and utilizing new breeding techniques to advance the art of breeding in hopes of achieving our stated goal.

The following three charts give an overview of our efforts to date.  Chart one “Advanced Phenotyping Platforms” points out the importance of phenotyping and how we have created a database and collection process to sort and store the phenotypes of our foundational germplasm and breeding lines.  We know of no other breeding company in our industry that has this phenotyping capability.  Chart two “The Future of California Almonds” demonstrates our advancement of MARKER ASISTED BREEDING in almonds.  This technique will reduce the breeding time significantly.  Again, we know of no other breeding company in our industry that has this capability.  Chart three represents one of the areas of focus we are pursuing, i.e. breeding drought tolerant almond varieties.