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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Select Application Areas

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

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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
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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

Optimizing Crucial Drug Manufacturing of APIs with Merck

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Improving the Specificity and Activity of a Biocatalyst

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Enzyme Discovery Powered by Large Metagenomic Libraries

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Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

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Advancing Treatments for Orphan and Rare Diseases with Selecta Biosciences

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Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

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Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

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Investigational Synthetic Biotic Medicine for Homocystinuria with Synlogic

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Discovering Novel Live Biotherapeutics with Microba

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Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

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New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

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Optimizing Key Components in Vaccine Production for a Global Market

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Developing Synthetic Biotics for Gout with Synlogic

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Accelerating Production of Essential Medicines with Antheia

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Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

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Proteins

Discover and synthesize novel functional proteins, optimize your protein production, or enhance processes to scale up your protein manufacturing: Ginkgo’s best-in-class protein capabilities empower your R&D.

Proteins

High Throughput Screening for Designing Novel CAR-T Cell Therapies

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Developing Next-Generation Gene Therapy Capsids with Selecta Biosciences

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Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

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Revolutionizing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: A Leap Forward in Biocatalysis

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Optimizing Silk Protein Production with Bolt Threads

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Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

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Engineering Living Biotherapeutics for Gastrointestinal Health with Tantu

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A New Modality of Medicine: Nucleic Acid Vaccines

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Metabolic Engineering

Leverage Ginkgo’s expertise in metabolic engineering and our foundry scale to program microorganisms to manufacture your molecule of interest.

Metabolic Engineering

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Unlocking the Potential of Expression Systems for Medicines with Novo Nordisk

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Aliquots

Optimizing Production of Biobased Speciality Chemicals with Lygos

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Producing Rare, Natural Ingredients with Givaudan

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Sustainable Beauty and Personal Care Products with Sumitomo Chemical

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Metabolic Engineering for Lower Cost Feedstocks

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Commercializing Cultured Ingredients with Robertet

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

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Scaling Production of Cultured THCV with Cronos Group

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Ultra High Throughput Genome Engineering for the Production of Specialty Chemicals

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Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

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Biobased Alternatives to Synthetic Polymers with Bioweg

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Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

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Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

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Improving Production Efficiency for Vibrant Food Colors with Phytolon

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Optimizing the Brightness of Glowing Plants with Light Bio

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

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New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

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Strain Optimization

Increase your titers, improve your strain’s robustness in harsh conditions, or evolve it to grow on more cost-effective inputs: Ginkgo’s best-in-class strain optimization services can help deliver on your goals.

Strain Optimization

Increasing the expression of a secreted protein in Pichia pastoris

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Strain Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture with Bayer

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Revolutionizing Enzyme Engineering: The Synergy of Big Data and AI at Ginkgo Bioworks

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Optimizing Crucial Drug Manufacturing of APIs with Merck

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Unlocking the Potential of Expression Systems for Medicines with Novo Nordisk

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Supporting COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development with Moderna

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

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Ultra High Throughput Genome Engineering for the Production of Specialty Chemicals

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Accelerating Production of Essential Medicines with Antheia

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Biobased Alternatives to Synthetic Polymers with Bioweg

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Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

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Developing Next-Generation Gene Therapy Capsids with Selecta Biosciences

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Engineering Bacteria for Cancer Patient Treatment with Prokarium

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Developing Synthetic Biotics for Gout with Synlogic

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Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

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Digital collage of live bacterial biotherapeutics

Discovering Novel Live Biotherapeutics with Microba

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Engineering Living Biotherapeutics for Gastrointestinal Health with Tantu

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Genes × Jeans: Accelerating Production of Sustainable Dyes with Huue

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Optimizing Key Components in Vaccine Production for a Global Market

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Improving Production Efficiency for Vibrant Food Colors with Phytolon

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Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

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Investigational Synthetic Biotic Medicine for Homocystinuria with Synlogic

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Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

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Aliquots

Optimizing Production of Biobased Speciality Chemicals with Lygos

Learn more

Optimizing Silk Protein Production with Bolt Threads

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New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

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High Throughput Screening for Designing Novel CAR-T Cell Therapies

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Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

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Producing Rare, Natural Ingredients with Givaudan

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Process Design & Scale Up

Utilize Ginkgo’s best-in-class scale up, processing, and production services at bench, pilot, and commercial scales. Ginkgo’s capabilities enable and improve the scaled production of your product.

Process Design & Scale Up

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

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Revolutionizing Enzyme Engineering: The Synergy of Big Data and AI at Ginkgo Bioworks

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Increasing the expression of a secreted protein in Pichia pastoris

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Supporting COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development with Moderna

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Scaling Production of Cultured THCV with Cronos Group

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Optimizing Crucial Drug Manufacturing of APIs with Merck

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Digital collage of live bacterial biotherapeutics

Discovering Novel Live Biotherapeutics with Microba

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Producing Rare, Natural Ingredients with Givaudan

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Scaled Production of Cultured CBG with Cronos Group

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Biobased Alternatives to Synthetic Polymers with Bioweg

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Developing High-Efficacy Adjuvants for Vaccines with SaponiQx

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Improving the Manufacture of Biosynthetic Heparin with Optimvia

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Launching Commercial Production of Cultured Cannabinoids with Cronos

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Optimizing Enzyme Expression and Performance with Zymtronix

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New Platform Ventures: Launching Verb Biotics, Ayana Bio

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Accelerating Industrial Adoption of High-Performance Biomaterials with Cambium

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Improving Production Efficiency for Vibrant Food Colors with Phytolon

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Strain Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture with Bayer

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Biosecurity

Biology-powered. Data-driven. People-centric. Ginkgo’s end-to-end platform provides the system and tools needed to prevent, detect, and respond to pathogens.

Biosecurity

Building a Global Bioradar System with Ginkgo Biosecurity

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Tracking Pathogen Variants with Rwanda Biomedical Centre

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Developing Water Quality Biosensors with FREDSense

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Needle in a Haystack: Looking for Compounds to Treat COVID-19

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