#Agbiotech #hemp #quinoa #tomato
- Plant breeding
- Plant engineering
- Genome editing
- Hemp
- Quinoa
- Lupin
- Tomato
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AgBiotech company developing innovative technologies to accelerate plant engineering.
BACKGROUND
Founded by Ying Shao and Aditya Nayak, Plantik is a French startup that aims to accelerate the conventional plant breeding process manifold to speed up the development of more resilient and diverse crops.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTS / SERVICES / TECHNOLOGY
Plantik Biosciences is building a next-generation plant engineering toolbox. The toolbox enables plant engineers to unlock significant, untapped traits and crop diversity with a lot more ease while cutting down the development time considerably. The toolbox is adaptable to different plant species and is currently used for hemp, quinoa, and tomatoes.
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CUSTOMER REFERENCES / COLLABORATIONS / HIGHLIGHTS
With Wageningen Plant Research, Radicle Crops, and Lekker Lupine: Acceleration of quinoa and white lupin breeding (€2M consortium).
Collaboration with University College Dublin to develop new traits in hemp.
COLLABORATIONS SOUGHT
Plant breeding, genome editing and engineering in hemp, quinoa, and tomato.
STRENGTHS
Plantik is developing an all-in-one toolbox to advance the application of genome editing technologies in agriculture to make it significantly simpler, cheaper, and faster to develop new crops for the future.
INNOVATION ASSETS
Proprietary plant engineering platform, genome editing protocols, and resulting traits and germplasms.
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