Pairwise, the first biotech food company that recently received regulatory approval to sell and distribute their gene-edited salads to restaurants and supermarkets throughout the U.S. and Canada, recently announced that they entered into a new partnership with pharmaceutical and biotech giant Bayer; to further advance and commercially launch a gene-spliced type of corn crops.
Pairwise announced the new 5-year contract with Bayer in a press release, that will mainly go to the further advancement of Bayer’s newly approved GMO corn crop called the “Preceon Smart Corn System.” This corn crop is smaller that naturally occurring corn and yet still produces the same size corn yields, The WinePress reported in July. Pairwise’s patented technology would seek to increase the overall size of the corncobs themselves.
Pairwise explained more in their press release.
The upcoming collaboration between Pairwise and Bayer will be focused on optimizing and enhancing gene-edited short-stature corn for future use in Bayer’s Preceon™ Smart Corn System. Short-stature corn – with a targeted height of 30 to 40 percent less than traditional corn – is an innovative new approach to growing corn and offers a number of sustainability benefits, including protections from crop loss due to increasingly severe weather events and extreme winds brought about by climate change. Short-stature corn also allows for more precise application of inputs throughout the growing season, sustainably growing more through reduced risk of crop loss.
Pairwise’s proprietary base editing tools allow for specific changes at virtually any location in the genome, which has the potential to make targeted and much needed improvements in agriculture.
These kinds of new genomic techniques are extraordinarily focused and produce results much more quickly and precisely than the conventional breeding process, ensuring that we can accelerate the delivery of solutions that growers need.
Bob Reiter, Head of R&D at Bayer’s Crop Science Division, said
The initial five-year collaboration focused on corn, soy, wheat, cotton and canola with the aim of empowering producers to grow more with fewer inputs on the same amount of land. The partnership, which concluded in June 2023, resulted in 27 novel traits being transferred into Bayer’s testing programs. Results of the program demonstrated significant commercial value including edited corn phenotypes with a 20 percent increase in kernel row numbers, which could lead to significantly more yield on the same number of acres. Another outcome has been edited soy that reduces the severity of Asian soybean rust, potentially reducing the need for fungicides to combat the disease and protecting the potential for higher yields.
These, and other significant achievements, were made possible through the development of custom gene editing tools by Pairwise. These include REDRAW™, or RNA encoded DNA replacement of alleles with CRISPR, a precise templated editing toolbox that can make any type of small edit at CRISPR-targeted sites. Another tool is SHARC™, a proprietary enzyme that works well for cutting, base editing, and REDRAW editing. These tools will also be used in the new collaboration focused on advancing short-stature corn.
We look forward to continuing our work with Bayer, with new emphasis on contributing to their novel smart corn system.
Working closely with Bayer on furthering this revolution in corn gives us the market reach to enable our technology innovations to more quickly adjust to the biggest challenge of our time: the changing climate.
Added Tom Adams, Co-founder and CEO at Pairwise.
Pairwise has already demonstrated the successful use of CRISPR and other emerging technologies to accelerate the delivery of new products to markets, and recently launched its first product, Conscious™ Greens into the U.S. foodservice channel. Through the leading use of cutting-edge technologies, and due to the efficiency of the company’s Fulcrum Platform, the product was advanced from concept to commercialization in just four years. In addition, Pairwise works with other innovative companies and has licensed its IP for applications in additional crops of global importance, including licensing elements of the Fulcrum Platform to Tropic Biosciences for applications in banana and coffee.
As noted in other WinePress reports, Bayer has already been investing in gene-editing technology for different purposes:
SEE: Head Gene Editor At Drug Giant Bayer Wants To Create Smaller Crops With RNAi To Fight Climate Change
Bayer Buys Majority Stake In CRISPR Edited Crops Company For “Farm-To-Fuel” Scheme
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This push for gene-edited crops is something the elites and mainstream media have said that they want, as it would help them deal with climate change and supposedly end hunger, and therefore organic husbandry and planting with the seeds God created must be expunged.
The handlers are working to usher in artificial famine, and in doing so gene-edited franken foods will be the answer. The Europe Union, and other Western nations, with all their faults, have at least tried feverishly to prohibit GMOs and all kinds of toxic ingredients, flavors, preservatives, dyes, and more; but last month the EU moved to relax these standards that will allow for gene-edited foods.
Definitely check out these two reports that detail more about this:
At its core its wicked man trying to play God again and outdo him.
[21] Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. [22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:21-22
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Smart phones, cities and now food; to bad there arn’t any smart people running this mess.