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- 农业生物技术公司热带生物科学d $35 million to develop high-performing tropical crops. Sustainability investor Blue Horizon led the funding round. It was joined by DisruptAD, Skyviews Life Science, Bloom8, Tekfen Ventures and Sucden Ventures.
- 总部位于英国的热带使用基因编辑技术来创建可以承受气候驱动挑战的香蕉，咖啡和水稻品种 - 估计的市场价值4000亿美元。该公司计划利用这笔资金扩展到新的热带作物中。
- The biotech company’s work is one example of how gene editing can increase the yields of valuable crops and protect them against the stressors of climate change at a time of global shortages for many food commodities.
Dive Insight:
The food system has perhaps never been asvulnerable to price and supply shocksas it is now. The world is heavily reliant on only a few key crops, withrice, wheat and corn making up more than half of global plant-derived food energy。同时，气候变化正在影响农作物的产量和引发农业疾病暴发，有助于推动许多贫穷国家的粮食不安全。
香蕉，most consumed fruit in the United Statesand the world, typify this fragile food dynamic. About 99% of exported bananas are one variety: the Cavendish. But the variety has proven vulnerable to a series of disease threats, including Panama and黑色Sigatokafungal diseases.据考证，气候变化仅增加了水果作物疾病爆发的风险。
自2017年以来，Tropic一直在香蕉上使用基因编辑来延长保质期并减少褐变。它于2018年开始关注巴拿马病，according to a 2020 report by the European news site Sifted。
Tropic, which has been modifying bananas using its GEiGS gene-editing tool, has been testing them in the field to determine their resistance to Panama disease. Sifted noted at the time of the interview that the company expected the plants to be used widely within five years if the tests went well, or around the 2025 timeframe.
该公司的其他主要目标包括赖斯，赖斯供应全球消耗的25％。它的生产已经受到气候变化驱动的天气极端。
热带也一直在与coffee, which has proven to be especially susceptible为了水应力，高温和大量大气二氧化碳。新贵表示，其GEIGS基因编辑技术还具有产生疾病和害虫的行作物，例如大豆，玉米和小麦。它甚至可能发展出对禽流感的抗鸡。
自2016年成立以来，这种工作帮助热带筹集了超过7300万美元投资者在内，包括Temasek和日本香蕉生产商Sumitomo Corp。
The lead investor in this latest funding round, Blue Horizon, has提到了它的名字投资in businesses that positively impact the planet while also driving a positive return. In a statement, Blue Horizon CEO Björn Witte, noted the firm’s focus on “creating impact at scale” through its investments.
他说：“热带地区将在可能不会使我们每天的报纸的头版成为我们的头版的领域中产生巨大的积极影响，但这并不意味着它不太重要，相反。”
热带只是几家生物技术公司之一，致力于制造更好，更富有弹性的作物。成对，有与热带合作共享基因编辑技术，有applied CRISPR试图制作无坑的樱桃并从果岭中消除苦味。本森山有使用的基因编辑和AI分析开发更营养，可持续和味道酸更好的植物成分，包括黄豌豆和大豆。
