## Biotech Crop Startup Plastomics Raises Investment for Early Seed Round Plastomics, a biotechnology startup making crops hardier through chloroplast engineering, is pleased to announce the closing of an early Seed Round. Their technology will help farmers and seed companies meet current challenges facing agricultural biotechnology today: insect resistance, herbicide tolerant weeds, and the need for… --- ## Plastomics is Growing the Next Generation of Crops with Agtech The FAO’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set 17 sustainable development goals and global objectives aimed at improving global conditions in a variety of areas like poverty, hunger, climate change and sustaining natural resources. At the heart of these initiatives is agriculture. According to the FAO,… --- ## Tech Accel Backs Chloroplast Engineering Startup Plastomics Emma Cosgrove Kansas-based agtech venture development organization TechAccel has backed ag biotech startup Plastomics. The St. Louis-based startup is working to shorten the pipeline for developing new seeds with multiple transgenic traits, increasing the speed and lowering the cost of designing new seeds. Seeds today are altered by… --- ## Could we cut crop-to-market time in half? The secret may lie in chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are in the news this week because St. Louis-based TechAccel made a science advancement investment with Plastomics, a biotechnology startup making better crops through chloroplast engineering. Here’s the key Chloroplast engineering is a fast, efficient, and more predictable way to… --- ## Startups move technologies along Editor’s note: The first article of this series on agricultural startup companies, published in the Aug. 9 issue of Agri-View, featured EIO Diagnostics, New West Genetics and Nutrivert – all of which have received capital and business training from The Yield Lab of St.… --- ## Food 2.0: Genetic Engineering Our Way to the High-Performing Crops of Tomorrow It all started with the lowly tomato. One of the original North American food crops, Europeans first started cultivating tomatoes with the help of Native Americans in the 17th century. As a food source for the settlers, tomatoes were healthy, plentiful and easy to grow.… ---