Major Growing Area 
Minor Growing Area Target Markets | Agriculture
Weather, pests, and disease wreck costly havoc on the world’s agricultural output every year.
- The cost of drought is over $10B / year.
- Diseases decrease the world’s production of rice by 50MM metric tons annually, while consumption of rice exceeds production by 14MM metric tons / year and is increasing.
- Newly arrived in the US, Asian rust disease is expected to cost American soybean producers $240MM - $2B / year.
Facing these problems, farmers are turning to transgenic crops for improved yields, better crops at less cost, and ways to compete more effectively.
Right now, the worldwide market for transgenic crops is over $45B per year and is growing at double digit rates. In the United States, 87% of soybeans, 79% of cotton, 73% of canola, and 52% of corn is transgenic. An additional 57 transgenic crops are being developed in 50 other countries.
iDiverse Competitive Advantage
Most major agricultural companies are developing and testing new transgenic plants, as are several small agricultural biotech companies. Their plants are engineered to exhibit one, or at most, a few specific traits using a “one gene for one trait” paradigm. The leading traits are herbicide and insect tolerance, modified ingredients, and resistance to specific pathogens, each of which is provided by a separate gene.
iDiverse’s ProTectAll™ transgenic technology offers, we believe, a truly unique advantage to seed companies and farmers. One genetic modification maybe able to provide protection against multiple relevant diseases and environmental stresses. Crops developed using our technology maybe able to fend off a variety of pathogens, be grown in sub-optimal conditions, and provide superior yields – all at the same time – all with the addition of only one proprietary genetic sequence.
No competitive transgenic crop under development provides this broad spectrum protection against multiple diseases and stresses.
