Public Funding for Phytoform Labs Ltd

**Lupin is currently an under-utilised crop in the UK with a huge potential of transforming the UK protein market for both food and feed.** We are investigating the opportunity that lupin has to become a **sustainably produced farm-based protein crop in the UK**, to replace and overcome the need for importing soya for livestock feed due to lupins provide high quality/quantity of protein, equivalent to soya and outstripping peas/beans. This project would **transform the traditional farm-based lupin protein production by 2 parallel strategies for decarbonisation and improved sustainability** via regenerative agriculture and improved lupin traits, each with underpinning metrics and measurements. **Lupin production in the UK** is currently low due to the lack of food/feed market and **needs** evidence-based and informed **encouragement**. The project aims to achieve this via the knowledge-exchange/stakeholder-relations/dissemination activities. This should stimulate the market and give growers confidence in taking on lupin as a viable crop in their rotations and/or on-farm feed production. This should be enhanced by **the involvement of farmers in the field trials** enabling peer to peer learning. The project is delivered by a highly competent consortium, led by CHAP, partnered with SoyaUK and Phytoform Labs.

"It is widely recognised that by 2050 we will need to produce 70% more food than is consumed today and this needs to be achieved more sustainably than ever. To do this we need to drastically change the way we currently produce food. Fresh herbs are important vegetables and provide essential vitamins, oils and other nutrients as part of our daily diet whilst improving the flavour of what we eat. At Phytoform Labs, we use revolutionary biological tools to increase herb production by improving the genetics of commercial varieties and introducing new plant breeding techniques to agriculture and horticulture. Phytoform Labs products will be produced faster, made bigger, have less of an impact on the environment and will be non-GM. The improvements in breeding mean consumers will have access to healthier and bigger herbs at a more affordable price."