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MIT Technology Review's EmTechAsia : where technology, business, and culture converge.

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Day 2 : From Glowing Plants to Oceanic Fields: A Roadmap for Commercializing Plant Synthetic Biology

From Glowing Plants to Oceanic Fields: A Roadmap for Commercializing Plant Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology has had great success in engineering microbes and now it's starting to realize its potential in more complex organisms like plants. TAXA has more of a software company strategy than a traditional biotech, using open source and rapid agile product development strategies to compete rather than patents and IP. Antony will share details of the technology system, PlantFab1, he built to make the Glowing Plant and the roadmap he hopes will lead to development of plants which can grow on salt water in order to open up the oceans to agriculture and biofuel production.

Antony Evans, Founder & CEO, Glowing Plant & TAXA