
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:
Trait ID
The client comes to us with a specific trait, such as form or function, they want improved in a crop they own.
Trait Discovery
We identify the genes correlated to that trait.
Ownership
It’s determined who owns, and will provide the germ plasm – a fundamental step for using CRISPR
Plant Optmization
We deliver the CRISPR enzyme into the plant, regenerating and transforming a single cell into a new plant, as part of our BioMaas platform.
Propagation
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.
Bulk Production
The plant seed is produced and multiplied, preparing for future distribution and commercialization.
Pre-Validation (optional)
After the plant is made, plants are grown in a controlled environment, such as a greenhouse.
Validation by field trials
The client then further tests the plant as part of field trials in a natural environment.
Market readiness
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.