accelerating crop GENETICS
status quo
Our perennial crops are under serious threat of climate change and massive diseases. But It takes 20+ years to improve these crops with conventional breeding
The area suitable to grow the Arabica species, representing 70% of the global coffee market, will be reduced by 50% by 2050.
The Cavendish variety, producing most of the 660 billion dessert bananas consumed yearly, and the cooking varieties like plantains, are devastated by Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4), also called Panama disease.
Mildew and other diseases are threatening global grape production and lead to intensive pesticide usage in vineyards. 90% of Bordeaux vineyards were affected by downy mildew in 2023.
problem
While modern breeding methods have accelerated genetics, selection remains a critical bottleneck.
Breeders are yet bound to growing and screening thousands of plants to identify the rare few that possess the desired genetic markers.
OUR SOLUTION
COMBINING CELL CULTURE HIGH-THROUGHPUT AUTOMATION AND MACHINE LEARNING, we are Accelerating the Development of new CROP GENETICS.
our platform
We leverage on our technology to:
create our products
Robustica
From a strong but bitter Robusta variety, we are creating the “Robustica”, a climate-resistant variety competing with the Arabica cup quality.
Naturally caffeine-free coffee
From a tasty caffeinated Arabica, we are creating the first naturally caffeine-free coffee variety, eliminating the chemical and polluting decaffeination processes.
Mildew-resistant Merlot
From a disease-prone Merlot grapevine, we are creating a mildew resistant Merlot, reducing massively pesticide use and enhancing natural grape quality.
improve your crops
We partner with seed companies, agrifood companies and research institutes to apply our CellTera technology to develop edited, mutated and doubled haploid lines in a much shorter time frame, by moving the screening bottleneck from the greenhouse to the cell. It is 10x cheaper and 2x faster than industry standards, significantly accelerating trait discovery and the development of climate resilient crops.
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