More value, fewer inputs
Reducing nitrogen fertilizer use will cut purchasing and application costs. More of the value of every harvest stays with the grower.
$200Bin nitrogen resources lost globally each year
Grow beyond fertilizers
We’re engineering plants to draw nitrogen from the air. The ambition: free growth from one of its biggest industrial dependencies: synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.
Research in progress
Change the plant
Change the planet
For a century, we’ve fed plants through factories. Energy, natural gas, shipping, fertilizer. An industrial supply chain behind almost everything we grow.
We’re working to move that capability into the plant. Making it work is one of the world’s biggest scientific challenges. Success will change the economics of growth, from the farm to entire industries, and reduce the environmental cost of feeding and supplying the world.
Growth without dependency
Less reliance on imported fertilizer will reduce exposure to price shocks and natural gas supply. Stronger food security starts at the plant.
70%of ammonia production uses natural gas
Less energy, less carbon
Displacing synthetic nitrogen will cut industrial energy demand and fertilizer-related emissions. A major input, redesigned through biology.
2.1%of global GHG emissions from synthetic nitrogen fertilizer production and use
2%of global final energy goes to ammonia production
Less nitrogen leakage
Using less fertilizer will reduce runoff, leaching, and nitrogen losses to the air. Less pollution reaching ecosystems and affecting human health.
80%of human-produced reactive nitrogen is lost to the environment
Give nature more room
Lower nitrogen pollution will ease pressure on rivers, coastlines, and terrestrial ecosystems. Productive agriculture and biodiversity belong in the same future.
75%of EU ecosystem area exceeded nitrogen critical loads in 2020
Beyond soil nitrogen
Breaking dependence on soil nitrogen will open new possibilities on nitrogen-poor land. A broader foundation for food, materials, and bioenergy.
37%of cultivated land in sub-Saharan Africa faces soil-nutrient constraints
The global nitrogen challengeRead the UN Environment Programme’s perspectiveOne ambition
Endless applications
From greenhouse crops to global staples
A new nitrogen capability will change the input economics of food production, from high-value crops to the staples that feed the world.
Tomato
An initial crop focusLower-input greenhouse production, with less reliance on externally supplied nitrogen.
Coffee
High-value perennial cropsStrengthen grower economics and supply resilience while reducing nitrogen losses in sensitive tropical landscapes.
Wheat, rice & corn
A longer-term horizonBring lower-input growth to the crops at the center of global food systems. Farmer economics and food security, at scale.
Plant engineering
Planetary impact
Neoplants exists to create the greatest possible positive impact through plant engineering. We focus on problems where a new biological capability can change an entire system.
Nitrogen brings that mission into focus: stronger food systems, less industrial dependency, and less pressure on the living world. This is the scale of change we’re working toward. More soon.
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