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Build better crops faster and cheaper

Edit fast. Scale smarter.

We help companies shorten crop-development timelines by more than 70%, cutting costs and getting products to market sooner across food, feed, fuel and fiber.

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Crop improvement hasn’t kept pace with a changing world

Humanity needs crops that are sustainable, resilient, and profitable, but the systems for creating them are too slow to meet that need.

Traditional breeding takes 8 to 10 years to deliver a new variety. That long design-build-test cycle keeps innovation stuck behind timelines the market has outgrown.

Genome engineering was meant to speed things up, but current methods still depend on tissue-culture systems that are costly, slow, and hard to scale. Projects sit idle while the pipeline runs it course.

It’s time for a faster, simpler, and more scalable way forward.

A new platform for plant genome engineering

The Whole Plant Delivery platform modifies plants directly in the greenhouse, eliminating the need for tissue culture. This streamlined process turns multi-year lab cycles into a single plant generation.

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Start with plants growing naturally in soil.

Trim plant and deliver edits to targeted areas.

Modified shoots emerge from the delivery site.

Grow new shoots that carry the intended change.

Harvest stable seed from those shoots—ready for testing or scale-up.

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Whole Plant Delivery delivers ease, speed and scale

Our greenhouse-based approach enables 3-4X faster iteration than tissue-culture methods, giving teams the speed and flexibility to meet changing market demands.

  • Easy to Implement - Replaces sterile tissue-culture labs with standard greenhouse workflows: simple to adopt, practical to run.

  • Highly Scalable – Generates large numbers of modified plants without new facilities or heavy infrastructure investment.

  • Faster & More Cost Effective – Delivers stable seed in a single generation, cutting years and major cost from development cycles.

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Accessing the future of crop development

We collaborate with companies building the next generation of crops, enabling access through strategic collaboration and licensing of our Whole Plant Delivery platform. Partners use our patented tools and protocols to bring fast, scalable genome editing directly into their own greenhouses — no specialized facilities or long regeneration timelines.

Licensing gives teams the ability to:

  • Integrate genome editing into active breeding and R&D pipelines

  • Move from idea to edited seed in a single generation

  • Accelerate trait validation and product development

  • Expand project capacity without expanding overhead

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    • Accelerate breeding programs, validate traits sooner, and deliver new varieties that lead in performance and profitability.

    • Increase throughput, reduce cycle times, and move more promising discoveries through testing each season.

    • Create differentiated crops that strengthen supply chains, meet consumer demand, and advance sustainability commitments.

    • A licensable, scalable platform with clear commercial applications and long-term market potential.

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Meet the team driving the next generation of crop innovation

We’re a team of scientists, operators, and ag industry veterans deeply focused on accelerating crop improvement to feed and fuel a growing world.

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Jenette Ashtekar, PhD

  • Proven ag-tech executive with track record commercializing academic IP.

    • Venture Partner @ Engine Ventures

    • Former SVP Product @ CIBO Technologie

    • 10 years as practicing soil scientist & modeler

    • PhD Soil Science, Purdue University

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Paul Atkins, PhD

  • Over a decade of hands-on experience in plant genome editing.

    • NIH/NICHD Intramural Postdoctoral Fellow

    • PhD Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota

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Jon Cody, PhD

  • Expert in plant transformation, genome editing and tools development with numerous high-impact publications.

    • Former Postdoc & Researcher in Voytas Lab

    • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

    • PhD Plant Genetics, University of Missouri

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Dan Voytas, PhD

  • Internationally recognized leader in plant genome engineering.

    • Endowed Professor, University of Minnesota

    • National Academy of Sciences Member

    • Co-founder & former CSO of Calyxt

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Feng Zhang, PhD

  • Decades of plant genome editing experience & deep expertise in soybean engineering.

    • Professor, University of Minnesota

    • Co-founder & former COO of Calyxt

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Colby Starker, PhD

  • Genome editing experience spanning ZFNs to CRISPR, traditional tools, viral delivery, morphogens.

    • Researcher in Voytas lab for 15 years

    • Contributed to numerous impactful projects

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Dan Burdett

    • Renowned Agri-business Leader, Board Member and Advisor

    • Former President of Syngenta Vegetable Seeds, N. America

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Dale Sorensen

    • Chief Commercial Officer at CoverCress

    • Highly accomplished seed industry leader

    • Former Dekalb, Monsanto and Climate

Let’s accelerate the future of crop innovation

Faster development means faster progress for growers, supply chains, and the planet.

If you’re building the next generation of crops or products, let’s work together to bring them to market sooner.