{"id":128756,"date":"2025-03-12T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/yields-are-through-the-roof\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:28:43","slug":"yields-are-through-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=128756","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yields are through the roof\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Emerging from stealth last year with a cool $100 million in funding, plant breeding startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohalo.com\/\">Ohalo<\/a> has generated a lot of buzz with its \u2018boosted breeding\u2019 technology. So what is it, and why is it creating what CEO Dave Friedberg calls a <a href=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/armed-with-100m-in-funding-dave-friedberg-unveils-boosted-breeding-tech-at-ohalo-in-holy-shit-moment-for-crop-breeders\">\u201cHoly Shit\u201d moment<\/a> for breeders?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>AgFunderNews<\/em> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldagritechusa.com\/\">World Agri-Tech summit<\/a> in San Francisco yesterday, Friedberg gave us the lowdown on the approach, which effectively ensures the progeny of two plants will get\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0the traits of interest by ensuring that both parents pass on their\u00a0<em>entire<\/em>\u00a0genome to their offspring.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ohalo CEO on \u2018boosted\u2019 breeding: \u2018Yields are through the roof\u2019\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RoC18FpB_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Uniform seed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The tech, which deploys proteins to effectively switch off the mechanism that splits the genes in each parent, is a potential gamechanger in the crop breeding world, claims Friedberg, as the resulting plants contain all the beneficial traits from both parents, rather than a random half of the traits from each parent.<\/p>\n<p>Strikingly, plants bred with the tech have also been shown to have significantly higher yields, says the startup, which was formed in 2019 by Friedberg\u2019s investment company and venture foundry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpb.co\/\">The Production Board.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As its process delivers the entire genome from each of the boosted parent plants, every seed they produce is genetically identical, explained Friedberg. As a result, Ohalo\u2019s technology can enable the production of uniform seed for farmers, replacing traditional methods of vegetative propagation still used in many crop systems, saving time and money.<\/p>\n<p>Take potatoes, said Friedberg. They produce seeds, but they are all genetically different, so most potatoes are grown from other potatoes (\u201cseed potatoes\u201d), which are cut into smaller pieces and planted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time ever, we can create true potato seeds and that\u2019s never been done before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re coming up on the 100 year anniversary of hybrid breeding, and we think boosted breeding is almost as significant in terms of the impact it could have, and importantly, it can have impact not just on a limited set of crops, but on pretty much all crops.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Three key benefits<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>According to Friedberg, the tech has three key benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne is precision breeding, so you can control what you\u2019re putting together, and you get exactly the combination of the mother and the father, so you can stack traits, and you know what you\u2019re going to get when you make a cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second is you can make true seed, because every seed will now have the exact same genetics. You can make seed in crops where we can\u2019t use seed, and it\u2019s very difficult or impossible to inbreed and do hybridization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe third is higher yields. So it turns out that when you make selections from distinct parents that have very different genes or very different alleles, the yield goes through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Further reading:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/exclusive-ai-powered-plant-breeding-startup-avalo-raises-11m-partners-with-coca-cola-to-future-proof-sugarcane-production\">Exclusive: AI-powered plant breeding startup Avalo raises $11m, partners with Coca Cola to future proof sugarcane production<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/tropic-to-launch-non-browning-bananas-in-march-extended-shelf-life-bananas-by-year-end\">Tropic to launch non-browning bananas in March, extended shelf-life bananas by year-end<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging from stealth last year with a cool $100 million in funding, plant breeding startup Ohalo has generated a lot of buzz with its \u2018boosted breeding\u2019 technology. 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