Root Optimization Boosts Yield, Lowers Input Costs, Improves Soil Health
Root system innovation that converts biology into yield, efficiency, and long-term carbon value.
Yield
Protection
Preserves loss caused by drought; potential for yield increase with increased planting density
Lower Irrigation Costs
Reduces water demand translating into measurable operational cost savings
Reduced Fertilizer Input Costs
Enhances nutrient uptake lowering fertilizer requirements and reducing nutrient leaching
Improved Soil
Health
Replenishes nutrients, topsoil retention/less erosion, stores more carbon, regenerates soil organic material (SOM)
Deep rooted crops deliver carbon removal at scale as a co-benefit of improving global food production
Pushing more root biomass deeper removes carbon for centuries compared to years
Push Root Biomass Deeper for
Long-Term Carbon Storage
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Minimal increase in agriculture carbon capture → gigaton scale carbon removal potential
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Nature already has the solution and has held significantly more carbon prior to human activity
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Durable by sequestering carbon deeper in the soil
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Most cost-effective carbon removal technology available today
Gene Lead 1 Demonstrated Translation in Soybean
Increased root and shoot biomass to potential yield improvement with increased planting density
Gene Lead 1 Expanded and Translated in Other Cash Crops
Phenotype observed in soybean, canola, sorghum, and CoverCress.
