The Kansas Wheat Innovation Center is an administrative headquarters and laboratory facility for research in food grain plant genetics and genomics, seed strain production and gene banking. The Center will be led by a partnership between the Kansas Wheat Commission of Manhattan and Kansas State University and will provide research laboratory space for private research companies.
Located on the campus of Kansas State University, the facility will house 15,000 square feet of wet and dry research laboratories, laboratory support spaces, and gene bank / cold seed storage rooms as well as administrative and support offices, seminar facilities, and a demonstration kitchen. There will also be research greenhouses on site.