accelerating crop GENETICS
problem
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.
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.
improve your crops
We partner with seed companies, agrifood companies and research institutes to generate new and improved crop varieties in a much shorter time frame.
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