Breeding by Design
Empower Agriculture to improve people’s Wellbeing & Nutrition and protect the Planet
About Us
Big Picture Approach
There are multiple ways to improve a crop, such as increasing the concentration of desirable content or producing more of it in a smaller footprint to use fewer resources. Having the right team with the right skill sets allows us to build a capable, collaborative and nimble company to effectively meet customer needs and address the most pressing challenges facing humanity and the planet.
Maximizing Innovation
Science, technology and experience propel us forward as we collaborate with customers and partners to drive change up and down the value chain. We integrate many cross-disciplinary sciences, including plant genetics, agronomy, food and sensory sciences, nutrition, and computational sciences. We deploy the latest technologies from genome sequencing to supercomputing to plant biochemistry. Each customer’s request and challenge are addressed through collaboration with open dialogue to promote innovation in our thinking.
Value Chain Consideration
When we combine these approaches to develop a customized solution to a customer’s challenge we Breed by Design the target crop Careful consideration is given to how the crops work in farm production and food manufacturing, and how their improvement changes entire food value chains to the advantage of consumers operators, surrounding communities and the environment.
Breeding by Design in Action
The problem
Sugar-related chronic diseases are a public health crisis, and there are few great-tasting agriculture-based solutions.
Our achievement
An agricultural solution that minimizes sugar consumption and delivers profits across the value chain while improving the environment.
Our approach
Harness our proprietary omics technologies and stevia genome along with interdisciplinary agriculture, food, and computational sciences to generate designer stevia that tastes great and performs in fields and foods.