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
Services We Provide
Enzyme Services
Protein Services
Metabolic Engineering Services
Strain Optimization Services
Process Design & Scale Up Services
Biosecurity Services
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