G's are the UK's predominant lettuce growers and are transitioning their growing to adopt regenerative farming principles, delivering net zero lettuce and a more resilient supply. One of the factors limiting productivity in lettuce is ensuring sufficient nutrient delivery under reduced or absent artificial fertilizer conditions. Artificial fertilizer inputs currently account for the greatest contribution to carbon emissions associated with lettuce growing. This project will use high-throughput gene editing approaches to increase nutrient capture by enhancing symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi. Improving lettuce germplasm promotes and benefits sustainable farming practices while establishing a framework for future vegetable improvement.

This project is for the delivery of sustainably produced ingredients for healthier alternative proteins, We grow our animal-identical proteins inside the biomass of crop plants in a molecular farming approach. Project outcomes are prototypes of animal-identical protein to enhance the taste and quality of existing meat alternative offerings, In so doing, we enable wider adoption of products that directly contribute to bettering of our climate emergency and greater health of existing plant-based alternative meat offerings.

This project is for the joint delivery and commercial launch of an entirely new approach to ground and whole cut beef steak, utilizing plant-grown, yet animal-identical ingredients, sustainably produced for the alternative meat industry. By enabling the production of identical meat proteins produced entirely within the biomass of plants, and utilizing fats designed to enhance the taste and quality of existing offerings, we enable wider adoption of products that directly contribute to bettering of our world and addressing our climate emergency.

Our project is for the delivery of an iron-enhanced lettuce variety designed to improve public health, add much needed nutrition to those on plant-based diets and advance a genetic editing approach to improving nutrition across the UK. .

This project is a demonstration of feasibility for a sustainable food ingredient production platform in crops beginning with bovine-identical proteins for the rapidly growing alternative meat industry. By enabling the production of identical meat proteins entirely produced within the biomass of plants, and designed and produced to enhance the taste, nutritional benefits and quality of existing plant-based offerings, we enable wider adoption of products that directly contribute to bettering of our climate emergency. Moreover, we are demonstrating an entirely new production platform and ecosystem, ultimately powered by photosynthesis, directly addressing the future of agricultural production and the alternative meat industry