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
Our Team
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
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
Extensive research experience in Plant Biotechnology, Physiology and Biochemistry.
Improving plants Photosynthesis Efficiency and Resilience to environmental stresses.
breakthrough innovation energy fellow