Boosted Breeding provides unprecedented improvements in crop yields that may otherwise take millennia to achieve with traditional breeding methods, with the potential to realize unimaginable productivity gains for farmers, improve humanity’s access to calories, and reduce the global footprint of agriculture.
Boosted Breedings enables perfectly predictable outcomes when making a breeding cross, reducing uncertainty, accelerating breeding cycles, and unlocking the ability to easily stack traits into a single variety.
Boosted Plants see overall yield gains of up to 50-100%+ due to Boosted heterosis and trait stacking.
Improved heterozygosity is unlocked with the Boosted Breeding system, creating novel varieties with greater diversity than previously possible.
Boosted Breeding unlocks the ability to produce genetically uniform seed in every crop, bringing true seed to traditionally vegetatively propagated crops.
Every living organism contains DNA, and genes are segments of that DNA. Variations in genes deliver variation in physical characteristics of the organism. We call these variations traits. Plant breeders aim to combine traits to make healthier, higher-yielding crops
In biological reproduction, a random half of the genes from the mother and a random half of the genes from the father combine to form a unique offspring. This makes improvements in crop yields difficult as plant breeders struggle to find plants that have inherited the right combination of traits to better succeed in the field.
Ohalo has developed several novel proteins and techniques that switch off the reproductive circuits that cause reproduction to only deliver half the genes from each parent plant. As a result, the offspring – Boosted plants – contain all the genes from the mother and all the genes from the father.
With the entire genome from each parent, Boosted plants have more beneficial trait combinations to help them succeed in different environments, improving overall health, growth, and yield.
Because the entire genome is delivered from each of the Boosted parent plants, every seed they produce is genetically identical. As a result, Boosted unlocks the ability to produce uniform seed that farmers can use to plant their crops directly in the ground, replacing traditional methods of vegetative propagation used in many crop systems today, saving time and money, and reducing pesticide use.
Contact us to explore ways you can use Boosted Breeding in your crop.
