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🎥 ClimateCrop bets on starch ‘off switch’ to improve crop performance

Agtech

Climate & sustainability

Yehuda Borenstein, cofounder, ClimateCrop Image credit Elane Watson

🎥 Resurrect Bio reawakens plants’ natural defenses: ‘It’s very targeted, almost like personalized medicine’

Agtech

Artificial intelligence

L-R: Resurrect Bio head of business development Elisa Arthofer, PhD; board chair An Michiels; and cofounder and CEO, Cian Duggan, PhD. Image credit: Elaine Watson

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UK Agri-Tech Centre to slash workforce by 60% in strategic pivot to new operating model

Agtech

Climate & sustainability

Daniel Himsworth, chief engagement officer, UK Agri-Tech Centre. Image credit: Elaine Watson

‘Bring us your difficult trait problems’: Biographica, Hudson River partner on crop genome editing

Can Culta take Japan’s premium fruit model global?

🎥 Avalo harnesses ‘whole genome AI’ to accelerate crop breeding: ‘We look at the forest, not the trees’

Egg proteins… in potatoes? Molecular farming startup PoLoPo makes the case

Agtech

Alternative protein

L-R: Dr. Raya Liberman-Aloni (CTO), Ido-Eliashar (VP-business development), and Dr. Maya-Sapir-Mir (CEO). Image credit: PoLoPo

Corteva Catalyst exec on investing in agrifoodtech startups: ‘We’re trying to be very intentional…’

Agtech

Startups & funding

Dr. Tom Green, Corteva Catalyst. Image credit: Elaine Watson

From bread to booze, climate smart cereal Tritordeum has huge potential, says Vivagran CEO

Agtech

EMEA

Etienne Vassiliadis, cofounder and CEO, Vivagran

Pairwise raises $40m series C, forms JV with Corteva to accelerate gene editing on row crops

Researchers net $85m to tap ancient eDNA to inspire next-gen climate resilient crops: ‘The early data is breathtaking’

CRISPR and the new era of precision plant breeding: In conversation with Pairwise CEO Dr. Tom Adams

Armed with $100m in funding, Dave Friedberg unveils ‘boosted breeding’ tech at Ohalo in ‘holy shit’ moment for crop breeders

OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’

‘Prioritizing taste over timelines’: amidst ongoing market correction, vertical farming company Oishii raises $134m Series B

Nature’s night lights: Light Bio’s bioluminescent plants show ‘magic’ of biotech, says CEO

Overhauling the global food system would bring ‘multi-trillion benefits’ to the planet, says new study

Elo Life Systems raises $20.5m in series A2, aims to launch natural sweetener in 2026: ‘Everyone is trying to reduce sugar’

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE

REPORTING ON THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE