We are accelerating plant development to create healthier, more resilient, and more sustainable food faster than ever before. This work is essential to transform food systems and help feed a growing global population in a resource-efficient way.
Plants and their bioactive compounds have tremendous potential to improve human health, reduce environmental impact, and address chronic disease. But traditional evolution and breeding take time we don’t have. That’s why we focus on advancing plant traits today to meet tomorrow’s needs.
We use advanced precision breeding techniques to accelerate the natural process of evolution. While those genetic changes could theoretically occur over millions of years, we do not have that luxury, given the urgent challenges facing food production and public health. Our precision breeding tools allow highly targeted edits to plant genotypes, enabling rapid trait improvements. This technology is considered non-GMO in most countries.
We have a deep understanding of plant metabolic pathways, metabolites, and the genes and enzymes that drive them. By applying this knowledge to specific traits or phytonutrients, we can precisely modify plant genetics to develop new and distinctive characteristics.
Enzyme and protein improvement require two core capabilities: accurate protein structure prediction and robust protein design. We have mastered both.
We use the highly accurate protein structure prediction tool developed by DeepMind (a Google company) in combination with the exclusively licensed protein design platform developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known as FuncLib. FuncLib is an extensively validated method that designs diverse multipoint mutants in enzyme active sites. We have integrated these advanced capabilities, along with additional related tools, into our cloud-based computational platform.
We are developing purpose-designed plants for our vertical farming solutions that are smaller, faster growing, adapted to low light, and have synchronized flowering and fruiting.
These specialized plants help reduce the environmental impact of food production, improve access to fresh foods in urban areas, and support more efficient and economically viable cultivation of fruits and vegetables.
Vegetables and fruits contain thousands of natural compounds called phytonutrients, which help plants grow, reproduce, and protect themselves from pests and disease. These same phytonutrients play a vital role in supporting human health.
We develop proprietary genetics in-house and collaborate with leading seed companies to create new plant varieties specifically optimized for vertical farming and controlled environment agriculture.
