Agriculture and food production systems are unsustainable at present, contributing significantly to environmental degradation, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture and food systems need to be transformed to meet sustainable development goals (eg. SDGs) and climate change challenges (e.g. Paris Agreement) over the next decades. Viridian Seeds aims to generate improved varieties of super-legumes which will transition agriculture and food production to a more sustainable future, while accelerating the dietary transition to plant based diets. Our mission is to create super-legumes to provide sustainable source of healthy plant protein and nutrition.
Taking a unique and powerful approach, Viridian Seeds uses its next generation allele discovery platform with AI for identification of novel traits and generation of new improved lines of legumes that have increased abiotic and biotic stress tolerances, a lower carbon footprint, higher yields, and improved nutritional characteristics. The crops so developed are considered non-GMO and this enables us to rapidly commercialize them without regulatory hurdles across different geographies.
Long-term mission
Viridian Seeds focuses on creating novel super-legumes to save the planet. We focus on discovering important traits in legumes both for agricultural as well as for consumer value using our non-GMO method.
