“What’s really exciting about gene editing is precision and speed,” says Corteva chief technology and digital officer Dr. Sam Eathington.
“We had the human genome project,” says Dr. Claus Felby. “This is the planetary genome project… we are mapping everything in a given ecosystem.”
“It was probably around 2013 or 2014 when I was at Monsanto that it became really clear that CRISPR was going to matter” for plant breeding, says Pairwise cofounder and CEO Dr. Tom Adams.
There is “definitely a holy shit moment when you speak with breeders about what we’re doing,” says Friedberg.
While a fair amount of work has gone into research on salt tolerant rice, there are “not many valid commercial options on the wheat side,” claims OlsAro.
“We have a very clear strategy that will allow us to establish a brand based on our quality,” says Oishii co-founder Hiroki Koga.
50,000 petunia plants that glow in the dark are being made available direct to consumers in the US via Light Bio’s website at $29/plant.
Overhauling the global food system could end undernutrition by 2050 and provide sufficient income to millions, says nonprofit.
The capital injection will also help advance work to develop Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating fungal disease Fusarium wilt.
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