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#19: Programmable plants - Brad Zamft
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I sat down with Brad Zamft, the co-founder and CEO of Heritable Agriculture, to take a deep dive into all the science (both biology and computer science) behind the effort to program plants, why it’s needed and what impacts it might have.
Episode links:
- Heritable Agriculture: https://heritable.ag/
- Heritable goes after indoor strawberries: https://heritable.ag/heritable-strawberries
- The sustainability threat of farming: https://vlsci.com/blog/top-issues-in-agriculture-2024/ ; https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply
- The risks of monoculture and monocropping: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/monocropping-monoculture/
- The promise of regenerative agriculture: https://theclimatecenter.org/our-work/research/report-the-promise-of-regenerative-agriculture/
- Farming resiliency in the face of climate change: https://sustainability.mit.edu/article/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-change
Outline
0:00 – Intro
2:18 – Brad’s journey to Heritable Agriculture
9:29 – Why we need programmable plants
14:23 – Challenges of biology
19:38 – Validating the models
22:14 – How does this all physically work?
31:05 – The challenge of adjusting 2 billion years of evolutionary success
34:48 – The risks of AI cracking plant DNA
39:50 – Regenerative Agriculture and tuning for resiliency in the face of climate change
47:53 – How farmers view the approach
51:59 – Tree adjustments
56:28 – The future outlook
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