Climate-Crop

We enhance plants to be climate-adaptive and more efficient.

Let’s Harness Their Hidden Potential.

We enhance plants to be climate-adaptive and more efficient.

Let’s Harness Their Hidden Potential.

It’s in the leaves.

Even as we push our planet to its limits, global demand continues to increase for essential crops. We need more from plants than ever before – and we need it right away. ClimateCrop upgrades plants by tapping into the power hidden in their leaves.

We increase the daily starch storage in plant leaves using a simple, non-GMO, precisely targeted gene edit. This improves photosynthetic efficiency in an indirect but powerful way, enabling plants to perform better.

The result: better yields, improved tolerance to drought and heat waves, reduced strain on existing resources, and more.

ClimateCrop-upgraded
plants do more with less.

Greater Climate Resilience

Increased starch storage also means more energy is available for respiration to keep plants healthy in stress conditions. Plants are stronger against heat waves and drought stresses – with faster recovery from the stress.

Reduced Strain on Resources

Efficient plants produce more without draining additional resources. Increase yields with the same resources inputs – water, land, nutrients, and energy.

Larger Yield, Same Quality

By storing more energy as transitory starch during photosynthesis, plants can use that extra energy to support better performance. This improves yield and plant health while retaining nutrient quality.

Farm-Ready

Our technology does not require any further investment in new agricultural practices, mechanization, machinery, or tools. Farmers can continue to plant, grow, and harvest as they see best. 

Broad Application:
Upgrades for Food, Feed, Fiber, & Fuel

Our proprietary gene exists in all vascular plants. The energy metabolism regulation (transitory starch biosynthesis and its transformation to sugar) is generic, independent of plant species or use.

We have the potential to upgrade 391,000 different species of vascular plants, providing broad application and opportunity across plant-based industries and agriculture – including food, animal feed, fiber, fuel and more.

Food Commodities

Banana, Canola, Tomato, Cucumber, Lettuce, Grape, Sugarcane, Onion, Coffee, Cocoa, + many more

Staple Crops

Corn, Rice, Wheat, Sorghum, Millets, Potato, Soybean, Cassava, Yam, + many more

Non-Food Commodities

Biofuel (Corn, Soybean, Sorghum, Canola, Camelina etc.), Cotton, Hops, Hemp, Trees, Ornamental Flowers, + many more

Partners and investors

UM6P Ventures logo

Our Team

Yehuda Borenstein - Co-founder and CEO

Yehuda Borenstein

Co-founder and CEO

Serial entrepreneur in Climate Tech, Energy and nano technology.

Established and managed technology startups and strategic business units, in Israel and the USA

breakthrough innovation energy fellow

Erez Eliyahu, Ph.D. - CTO and Co-Founder

Erez Eliyahu, Ph.D.

CTO and Co-Founder

Expertise in molecular biology and biochemistry in variety of model organisms.

In the last years mainly oriented towards R&D, establishing systems to bring new ideas into fruitions.

breakthrough innovation energy fellow

Vivekanand Tiwari, Ph.D. - CSO and Co-Founder

Vivekanand Tiwari, Ph.D.

CSO and Co-Founder

Extensive research experience in Plant Biotechnology, Physiology and Biochemistry.

Improving plants Photosynthesis Efficiency and Resilience to environmental stresses.

breakthrough innovation energy fellow

Want to adapt your crops ? Let's talk