Food security is a growing problem. The world population keeps growing, and climate change increases the risks for crop yields, threatening the global food supply. We want to revolutionise plant transformation and gene-editing by enabling direct and efficient transformation of any plant meristematic tissue via precise solvent delivery.
We plan to reduce the time and cost of generating gene-edited crops and to generate affordable, high-throughput devices that enable the fast and efficient transformation of crops, including high-throughput scaling up with robotic actuation, hence posing this delivery method as a true platform technology enabler. Within the Biotech Booster program, we explore different options for the business model and refine parameters for feasibility and automation.
