Agriculture

Overview

Harness the full breadth of biology for agriculture

Whether it’s pests developing resistance to chemical crop inputs or microbes developing resistance to antibiotics, biology is constantly evolving. The best answer to biology’s continuous adaptation? Biology itself. Ginkgo’s platform enables you to develop and launch the next generation of biological solutions to meet agriculture’s greatest challenges.

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of your R&D team

Ginkgo helps your R&D team develop more effective biological products across a variety of applications. Utilize our services to reduce your time to market, to create products for the diverse regulatory landscapes and geographic markets you serve, and to empower your conventional, organic, or regenerative agricultural operations.

Ginkgo’s services empower customers across all stages of the product development pipeline, from discovery through in planta testing and pilot manufacturing. Our world-class synthetic biology platform combines computational design and ultra high throughput genetic engineering and screening with expertise in process development, formulation, in planta testing, and manufacturing scale-up. See below for a selection of our application areas and case studies.

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Crop Protection

Crop Protection

Discover active ingredients and strains using Ginkgo’s multi-omics & ultra high throughput screening capabilities to diversify and differentiate your crop protection products
Improve product efficacy with randomized or rational engineering techniques
Optimize product stability with solid and liquid formulation for foliar, seed, and in-furrow treatments

Crop Nutrition

Crop Nutrition

Screen strains for novel plant growth regulators (PGR) and enhanced PGR secretion
Evaluate growth characteristics across a diversity of in planta assays to determine mode-of-action
Measure in planta efficacy with rapid phenotyping using 3D spectral imaging to select lead candidates for field trials

Animal Health & Wellness

Animal Health & Wellness

Discover novel antimicrobial solutions including probiotics and phytogenics to replace antibiotics
Optimize the activity and stability of linear and circular RNA to enhance vaccine functionality
Develop probiotic products through metabolic engineering and enzyme optimization
Enhance enzyme activity and functionality to improve feed conversion

Carbon Solutions

Carbon Solutions

Engineer carbon-fixing microbes and fungi to increase soil biomass
Convert low-value agricultural byproducts such as soybean hulls into higher value products with tailored enzymatic solutions

Trait Discovery

Trait Discovery

Leverage our massive strain and metagenomic libraries to screen for beneficial plant traits
Identify mode of action for favorable plant traits for further optimization

Ag Biologicals Product Headstarts

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with our lead candidate strains

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Services We Provide

Explore Ginkgo’s capabilities to learn how you can leverage biology to solve your challenges.

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We program cells—enabling you to grow the future of agriculture, medicine, materials, food, and more.

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What We Do

Featured Projects & News

Ginkgo is your end-to-end synthetic biology R&D partner. Browse a selection of our partner projects and case studies to explore how our services are being used across industries.

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Enzymes

Whether you’re looking for a biocatalyst to replace a chemical synthesis step, looking to improve your enzyme’s function, or aiming to lower your manufacturing costs, Ginkgo’s best-in-class enzyme capabilities empower your R&D.

Enzymes

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Overview

Harness the full breadth of biology for agriculture

Unleash the full potential of your R&D team

Select Application Areas

Crop Protection

Crop Protection

Crop Nutrition

Crop Nutrition

Animal Health & Wellness

Animal Health & Wellness

Carbon Solutions

Carbon Solutions

Trait Discovery

Trait Discovery

Ag Biologicals Product Headstarts

Get a Headstarton Discovery

Services We Provide

Enzyme Services

Protein Services

Metabolic Engineering Services

Strain Optimization Services

Process Design & Scale Up Services

Biosecurity Services

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Start a project today.

Featured Projects & News

Enzymes

Optimizing Crucial Drug Manufacturing of APIs with Merck

Improving the Specificity and Activity of a Biocatalyst

Enzyme Discovery Powered by Large Metagenomic Libraries

Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

The Enzyme Intelligence Virtual Event

Advancing Treatments for Orphan and Rare Diseases with Selecta Biosciences

Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Investigational Synthetic Biotic Medicine for Homocystinuria with Synlogic

Discovering Novel Live Biotherapeutics with Microba

New Platform Venture: Launching BiomEdit

Launching Ginkgo Enzyme Services

Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

Optimizing Key Components in Vaccine Production for a Global Market

Developing Synthetic Biotics for Gout with Synlogic

Accelerating Production of Essential Medicines with Antheia

Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

Discovering Enzymes for New Applications

The Era of Living Medicines with Synlogic

Proteins

High Throughput Screening for Designing Novel CAR-T Cell Therapies

Developing Next-Generation Gene Therapy Capsids with Selecta Biosciences

Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

Revolutionizing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: A Leap Forward in Biocatalysis

Optimizing Silk Protein Production with Bolt Threads

New Platform Venture: Arcaea

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Engineering Living Biotherapeutics for Gastrointestinal Health with Tantu

A New Modality of Medicine: Nucleic Acid Vaccines

New Platform Venture: Introducing Motif

Metabolic Engineering

Unlocking the Potential of Expression Systems for Medicines with Novo Nordisk

Optimizing Production of Biobased Speciality Chemicals with Lygos

Producing Rare, Natural Ingredients with Givaudan

Sustainable Beauty and Personal Care Products with Sumitomo Chemical

Metabolic Engineering for Lower Cost Feedstocks

Commercializing Cultured Ingredients with Robertet

Celebrating Cronos Group’s First-of-a-Kind CBC Product

Scaling Production of Cultured THCV with Cronos Group

Ultra High Throughput Genome Engineering for the Production of Specialty Chemicals

Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

Biobased Alternatives to Synthetic Polymers with Bioweg

Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

Better Baby Formula with NAMUH

Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

Improving Production Efficiency for Vibrant Food Colors with Phytolon

Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

From Plant to Yeast: Revolutionizing Nutraceutical Production with Ginkgo’s Enzyme Intelligence

New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

New Platform Venture: Launching BiomEdit

Unleash the full potential
of your R&D team