We
help
partners
yield
resilient
crops
-
at
scale.

Collaboration models

We work with a diverse set of partners, including seed, breeding and farming companies, and consumer packaged goods companies, across two different types of partnering models.

Collaborator

As a tech provider, Hudson River offers its Protoplast-CRISPR platform to enhance clients’ own crops, focusing on trait optimization, resilience, and scalability. This collaboration enables clients to harness cutting-edge technology to meet their specific agricultural needs without investing in additional infrastructure.

Licensing
Partner

Commercial partners have the opportunity to license, grow and market one of our proprietary crops/products directly to their consumer. See our pipeline for more information.

Our offering

Yield

Prevent diminishing yield and increase crop production with a scalable, automated solution for adding desired traits to many crops at once.

Consistency

Stabilize your crop by embedding traits that produce high-yielding crops consistently over time.

Enhancements

Improve your crop’s flavor, profile or any other desired traits that would make it more appealing to consumers.

The process

From your plant to a fully optimized crop

Timline

18-24 months

Process

Most of our partnerships begin with a client and a desired trait they want to regenerate and transform in an existing crop. These are the steps we each go through to bring this new, improved crop to life:

01.

Trait ID

Client

The client comes to us with a specific trait, such as form or function, they want improved in a crop they own.

02.

Trait Discovery

Hudson River

We identify the genes correlated to that trait.

03.

Ownership

Client

It’s determined who owns, and will provide the germ plasm – a fundamental step for using CRISPR

04.

Plant Optmization

Hudson River

We deliver the CRISPR enzyme into the plant, regenerating and transforming a single cell into a new plant, as part of our BioMaas platform.

05.

Propagation

Hudson River

Once a single plant is regenerated, we conduct clonal cropping, or selfing and obtaining seeds, depending on the crop and its genetics, to multiply that single plant into many.

06.

Bulk Production

Client

The plant seed is produced and multiplied, preparing for future distribution and commercialization.

07.

Pre-Validation (optional)

Hudson River

After the plant is made, plants are grown in a controlled environment, such as a greenhouse.

08.

Validation by field trials

Client

The client then further tests the plant as part of field trials in a natural environment.

09.

Market readiness

Client

The new, CRISPR-enhanced plant is run through the necessary patenting, regulatory and approval processes before it reaches customers.

Expert
guidance
for
CRISPR
patents
and
approvals

Given CRISPR is a relatively new, powerful tool for plant breeding, it comes with new considerations for securing the necessary patents and regulatory approval.

We at Hudson River have the experience to advise you, as needed, as you navigate the CRISPR IP and regulatory environment.

Contact us

Let’s
talk
about
how
we
can
help
you
yield
more.

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