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fromTNW | Sustainability
1 day ago

Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

Tropic launched the first new commercial banana varieties in 75 years using gene-editing technology to combat Panama Disease, securing $105 million in Series C funding to scale production and save the global banana industry.
Agriculture
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

Bindbridge raises $3.8m to fight herbicide resistance with AI-designed crop protection

Bindbridge, a Cambridge ag-biotech start-up, secured $3.8 million to develop AI-driven herbicides and pest control using molecular glues technology to combat herbicide resistance.
fromNature
6 months ago

Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food

If the trial is a success, each plant will bypass sexual reproduction and will set seed to thousands of clones in each flower head. The Hy-Gain sorghum trial is the culmination of decades of work for plant physiologist Anna Koltunow at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, who began research to make 'sexless seeds' in the early 1990s. The technology exploits a quirk of nature - known as apomixis.
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