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Millions of tiny threats – one powerful solution is the motto at NanoGuard Technologies. The powerful solution: patented sterilization technology to eradicate millions of harmful pathogens to bring clean, fresh…

Making the best use of farmland in between growing seasons is one way to step up to the challenge when facing a global food crisis. CoverCress, a climate-smart seed technology…

In plant biology, one cell becoming two is a common and rapid occurrence, but one plant biology company becoming two is typically a rare and slow occurrence. However, a catalyst…

Planning is underway for a Center of Excellence in indoor farming that would be housed on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The Yield Lab Institute is leading the efforts to develop…

Cassava is one of the most important crops in the tropics, feeding half a billion people in more than 80 countries. Cassava bacterial blight (CBB) is a devastating disease that…

Impetus Agriculture and Solis Agrosciences, two companies at the Helix Center Incubator, and PeptydeBio a startup founded by the Danforth Technology Company were selected as the nine startups to watch…

St. Louis, MO, January 26, 2023—The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded a two-year grant for Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects to Kirk Czymmek, PhD, director of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory,…

ST. LOUIS, MO – Jan. 13, 2023 – A groundbreaking research study by a team that included scientists from Benson Hill, Inc. (NYSE: BHIL, the “Company” or “Benson Hill”), has been published this month…

With a mission to change the way crops are fed; Pivot Bio is tackling how fertilizer is produced and used by the world’s farmers. These crops feed our families worldwide…

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8, 2022 — Solis Agrosciences, created to provide R&D crop development services to Agtech companies, today announced that it closed on major growth capital financing led by Hermann Companies, Jim McKelvey,…