Solving Agriculture’s Toughest Challenges
Leveraging AeroFarms installation, maintenance, and repair services experience in controlled environmental agriculture from our vertical farms and stackable custom plant propagation technology platforms, and deep expertise in growing and harvesting leafy greens using soilless grow media and cloth, AeroFarms has a tremendous amount of data and knowledge on plant biology coupled with years of experience and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Partner with AeroFarms to collaborate on building and creating solutions to today’s biggest supply chain and produce distribution challenges. Some key area of impact include:
- Flavor and Aroma
- Plant Expression
- New Product Development
- Product Consistency
- Secure Supply Chain
- Speed Breeding
- Sustainable Growing
- High-value Nurseries
Example Partnerships
Peek Inside AeroFarms AgX, The World's Largest R+D Indoor Farm
AeroFarms AgX is leading the way in breakthrough innovation to solve some of the world’s most pressing agriculture challenges, and will host high-tech laboratories conducting organoleptic research and precision phenotyping, phytochemical analysis, advanced speed breeding, as well as next-generation machine vision, machine learning, robotics, and automation.
Commercial Partnership Case Studies
Expansion into Berries
Producing higher-quality berries and other traditionally seasonal produce year-round
Work to Date Includes:
- Have grown thousands of berry plants in R&D facilities since 2017
- Growing capabilities yield strawberries that consistently exceed industry averages for sweetness
Pharmaceuticals, Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals
Using plants as bioreactors to produce proteins and inputs for other applications
Work to Date Includes:
- Participated in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored trial
- Growing an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for extraction for COVID-19 (or other SARS) therapeutic trial
Advanced Genetics, Products and Services
Using fully-controlled platform for speed breeding and genetic development
Work to Date Includes:
- Founding Member of the Precision Indoor Plants (PIP) Consortium and Principal Investigator for first and largest project (lettuce)
Latest Developments
