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Tropic Biosciences banks $35m in fresh funding for crop gene editing

by Graeme Hammer
by Graeme Hammer Published: Last Updated on

UK ag gene-editing startup Tropic Biosciences has raised $35 million for its latest funding round, it announced today.

Tropic Biosciences is applying gene-editing techniques to make crop production more sustainable, with a focus on creating high-performance varieties of three key tropical commodity crops: banana, coffee, and rice.

More to follow.

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Graeme is a Professor in Crop Science at the Centre for Crop Science. Graeme conducts research on the physiology and genetics of complex adaptive traits in field crops with a focus on water productivity in cereals. His research underpins the development of mathematical models of crop growth, development and yield that enable simulation of consequences of genetic and management manipulation of crops in specific target environments.

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