Industries
Agritech
The agritech industry commercializes advances in plant genetics, soil microbiology, and precision agriculture, much of which originates in land-grant university research programs. Companies recruit heavily from plant-science and agronomy PhD pipelines and rely on sponsored research and field-trial collaborations to validate new traits and biologicals. The closest academic ties run through agricultural extension labs and crop-genomics centers.
Details
- Companies
- Corteva AgriscienceBayer Crop ScienceSyngentaInari AgriculturePivot BioIndigo AgricultureBenson HillPairwiseGreenlight Biosciences
- Market Size
- $24B
- Target Researchers
- Plant scientists, agronomists, soil microbiologists, and crop geneticists working on yield, gene editing, nitrogen fixation, and sustainable inputs
- Use Cases
- Crop trait licensing from university programsField trial collaboration with ag-extension labsRecruiting plant-genomics PhDsMicrobiome platform co-developmentSponsored research at land-grant universitiesGene-editing IP partnerships