Changing How We Grow
Chi Botanic is making high value plant products in a new way - plant cell cultures. Traditional agriculture is inadequate to sustainably meet the demand of a world population expected to grow 40% in the next 30 years. Today, an increasing number of plant products are made from a small portion of a plant or from plants that grow incredibly slow. Growing low-efficiency natural products not only makes them very expensive and unscalable, it also squanders available land and resources like energy and fresh water, while increasing the negative impacts caused by fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Simultaneously, there is an ongoing explosion in demand for natural plant products across numerous industries. Our plant cell cultures can be grown under controlled conditions extremely efficiently and untethered from geography, climate, or season at a lower cost to both the environment and the end-consumer. We call it "nanoponics" and invite you join us to change how we grow.
The Industrial Plant Cell Factory
The world's first synthetic biology pipeline leveraging the power of the plant cell.
Plant Cells
Using unique source plants, we develop proprietary stem cell lines and generate plant cell cultures.
Automation
Using high throughput robotics we select the optimum cells for each individual product.
Production
We then scale these cultures into larger production systems at industrial scale.
Executive Team
Jonathan Meuser, PhD
Co-founder & CEO
PhD Environmental Engineering Colorado School of Mines
Synthetic Genomics (Scientist) Algenol Biotech (Senior Scientist)
Robert Jinkerson, PhD
Co-founder & CSO
PhD Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines
Post-doc: Dept. of Plant Bio
Carnegie Institute at Stanford
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC, Riverside