A new crop of microbe startups raises big bucks, takes on the establishment

By Emily Waltz

Seed and chemical giant Bayer in September announced a $100-million joint venture with synthetic biology firm Ginkgo Bioworks, with the lofty goal of engineering nitrogen fixing microbes and reducing global fertilizer use by one-third. In the same month, Indigo Ag, a microbe-focused startup, announced it had raised $156 million, in a big bet on plant microbes to replace fertilizers and pesticides and improve crop yields.

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