This is a facility that basically helps the development. Plant breeding and developing new crop varieties is a very long process. It takes 10, 15, or 20 years to develop new crop varieties. That's where genomics can help. They can identify markers that will accelerate and help screen out the plants that you don't want. That's really what plant breeding is about—selecting the plants that you want.
A plant accelerator enables you, through automation and computer technologies, to identify the phenotypes or the physical properties that you want in a trait in a plant early on, through the use of automation and technology, so you can get to the targeted plants and the traits you want more quickly.
That's what Australia is doing. They're building a $25 million facility in Adelaide, Australia, that will accelerate the analysis of these crop varieties. So they'll more quickly develop varieties that are going to grow in Canada, and guess what? The big companies are going to say, “Hey, I can grow my new exciting varieties that have improved traits in Australia.” And Australia is developing plants that are going to grow in Australia, not in Canada. So if we don't do that in Canada, we're at a disadvantage.