Boosted Breeding

Extracted Attributes

• Impact

  Revolutionizes agriculture, accelerates crop improvement, enhances food production sustainably, achieves outcomes that might take millennia with traditional methods.

• Developer

  Ohalo

• Core Mechanism

  Alters plant genetics to pass 100% of parental DNA to offspring using novel proteins to switch off gene-splitting mechanisms, potentially involving CRISPR gene editing.

• Primary Benefit

  Dramatically increases crop yield, improves genetic diversity, enhances adaptability, creates healthier and larger plants.

• Technology Type

  Plant breeding technology, Agriculture Technology, Gene editing

• Applicable Crops

  Nearly every crop on Earth; demonstrated in Potatoes; applicable to Strawberries and Almonds.

• Inventor/Founder

  David Friedberg

• Developer Location

  Aptos, California, USA

• Secondary Benefits

  Enables uniform seed production, replaces costly and inefficient vegetative propagation, lowers disease risk in seeds, reduces cost and time for farmers.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Jud Ward

• Demonstrated Yield Gain (Potatoes)

  From 9 grams per potato to 680 grams per potato in trials.

Timeline

• Ohalo began its five-year stealth development phase for Boosted Breeding technology. (Source: Web Search (AgFunderNews))

  2019 (approx.)

• David Friedberg revealed Boosted Breeding on the All-In Podcast, followed by Ohalo's official announcement of the technology's discovery. (Source: Summary, Related Documents, Web Search (PRNewswire))

  2024-05-23

David Friedberg

David Albert Friedberg (born June 6, 1980) is a South African-American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. He founded The Climate Corporation and served as its chief executive, overseeing its $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013, the first unicorn transaction in the emerging agricultural technology sector. Friedberg later founded and leads The Production Board (TPB). He co-hosts the All-In podcast with David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, and Chamath Palihapitiya. Across his career he has contributed to 32 patents. He invests as an angel in technology, food, agriculture, and life sciences startups with 16 exits.

Web Search Results

• Ohalo™ Announces the Discovery of Boosted Breeding™

  APTOS, Calif., May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohalo™ announced today the discovery of Boosted Breeding™, an entirely new plant breeding technology that will revolutionize agriculture and sustainably improve crop productivity. Much like hybrid plant breeding systems discovered in the early twentieth century, Boosted Breeding introduces an unprecedented leap forward, with the potential to unlock unimaginable yield, change inefficient agronomic practices, and vastly increase the adaptability and [...] In addition to the ability to combine beneficial traits and increase yield through improved genetic diversity, Boosted Breeding enables new agronomic systems for vegetatively propagated crops that are currently costly, inefficient, and vulnerable to significant disease. [...] What is Boosted Breeding? Ohalo's Boosted Breeding system enables each parent plant to pass its entire genome to its offspring, rather than a random half of the genes of each parent. These new Boosted™ offspring plants then possess an expanded genome containing all of the genes from each parent, unlocking the following major benefits:

• 'Boosted' breeding a gamechanger in agtech, claims Ohalo CEO

  The ‘boosted breeding’ technology, which deploys proteins to effectively switch off the mechanism that splits the genes in each parent, is a potential gamechanger in the crop breeding world, claims Friedberg, as the resulting plants contain all the beneficial traits from both parents, rather than a random half of the traits from each parent. [...] Meanwhile, as Ohalo’s process delivers the entire genome from each of the boosted parent plants, every seed they produce is genetically identical, he said. As a result, Ohalo’s technology can enable the production of uniform seed for farmers, replacing traditional methods of vegetative propagation still used in many crop systems today. This can save both time and money. [...] California-based Ohalo, which has spent the last five years in stealth mode honing its gene editing techniques and filing patents (click here and here), effectively ensures the progeny of two plants will get all the traits of interest by ensuring that both parents pass on their entire genome to their offspring.

• 'The yield gains are insane'. David Friedberg unwraps Ohalo's much ...

  “The yield gains are insane," Freidberg revealed in his popular tech-focussed All-In podcast. Ohalo has developed a groundbreaking technology called ‘Boosted Breeding’. This uses CRISPR gene editing to alter the reproductive circuits in parent plants to accelerate crop improvement and enhance food production sustainably. [...] Ohalo's Boosted Breeding system enables each parent plant to pass its entire genome to its offspring, rather than a random half of the genes of each parent. These new offspring plants then possess an expanded genome containing all of the genes from each parent. The results so far have been particularly impressive with potatoes, Friedberg revealed. In one trial, the parent had nine grammes and 33 per potato. But the boosted offspring boasted 680 grammes of potato. [...] Genetically Uniform Seeds – For many crops that are vegetatively propagated, like potatoes, instead of grown from seed, Boosted Breeding unlocks scalable seed-based planting systems for the first time. These seeds carry lower disease risk and require a fraction of the cost and time associated with vegetative propagation, the company says.

• Ohalo | Accelerating evolution to unlock nature's potential

  Boosted Breeding, which can be applied to nearly every crop on Earth, changes the way plants reproduce, enabling two parents to pass on their entire genome to the next generation, creating Boosted plants which contain all the beneficial traits from each parent plant, rather than a random half of the traits from each parent. Boosted plants are healthier, larger, and deliver outcomes that might take millenia to achieve with traditional breeding methods. Arrow to the right ## Value-Added Traits [...] Ohalo launches the Strawberry Consortium! # Accelerating Evolution to Unlock Nature's Potential. Pause video Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. #### FruitionOne [...] The world’s first self-fertile Nonpareil almond variety. Arrow to the right #### Boosted Breeding Ohalo’s breakthrough technology, which can be applied to nearly every crop on Earth. Arrow to the right #### Ohalo Strawberry Consortium Groundbreaking collaboration developing more flavorful strawberries and bringing them to market as true seed. Arrow to the right Arrow to the right Arrow to the right ## Boosted Breeding

• Ohalo's Boosted Breeding Technology

  Ohalo's Boosted Breeding uses novel proteins to ensure offspring inherit all genes from both parents, resulting in higher yields and uniform seed.