Awards
Seed World U.S.
Top Innovative Product
Euroseeds
InnovActionStage Winners Podium
OWL
Innovation Award Shaping the Future
The team
Dr. Zeljko Micic
Academic record and professional career
SMARTtray GmbH
CEO
Deutsche Saatveredelung AG
Head of Laboratory
- Majors: Quality analyses and marker assisted selection; Project management for Oil seed rape
University of Hohenheim
Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences
- University of Hohenheim, Germany, Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science, and Population Genetics
- Thesis: “QTL Mapping of Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary in Sunflower“
University of Hohenheim
Graduation: Diplom Ing. Agr.sci
- Studies: Agricultural sciences
- Field: Plant production
- Majors: Plant Breeding and Population Genetics
- Diploma Thesis: Marker-assisted Analysis of Genetic Diversity among Ecotypes of Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)
University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Omitted university due to war in former Yugoslavia
Is SMARTtray® legally protected?
The SMARTtray® technology is protected by two international patents.
In addition, figurative and word marks have been registered for all relevant markets worldwide to protect the SMARTtray® brand.
Patent WO2018/041308A1
The first patent relates to the device for cultivating and taking samples (WO2018/041308A1)
Patent WO2018/041309A1
The second patent covers the end-to-end process (WO2018/041309A1)