Reinventing Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the process plants use to harness sunshine, water, and air to synthesize sugar and fuel their growth.
Before

Inefficient
Process

While fundamental, photosynthesis is bottlenecked by an inefficient catalyst, the enzyme RuBisCo.
After

Optimized
Efficiency

By developing new enzyme combinations, GigaCrop directly eliminates the bottleneck, unlocking photosynthesis at full potential.
practice

What It Means in Practice

Improved photosynthesis is a drop in solution
for frictionless scaling

Corn
Soybean
Lumber
+1.16 GT annually. (≈ 60B additional gallons of oil).
+0.52 GT annually
Scalable to bio-materials and fiber markets.
A New Pathway Beyond RuBisCo

Breaking Biology’s Bottleneck

Why Only GigaCrop Can Deliver 2X Yields
Previous approaches have shown incremental gains however, only GigaCrop has developed a new carbon fixation pathway that avoids RuBisCo entirely, increasing overall sugar synthesis speed. GigaCrop eliminates this fundamental bottleneck by combining advanced enzyme engineering with machine learning.
Proprietary Foundation
Built on exclusive intellectual property from UC Berkeley, our engineered enzyme pathway represents the first true leap in agricultural productivity in over a century.