355. Claudia Nari on Inari’s unique advantage + gene editing as a new paradigm in agbioscience

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Agbioscience

This weekly podcast dives into the agbioscience sector, where agriculture, life sciences innovation and cutting-edge technology converge. Agbioscience is an in-depth conversation with leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs across food, animal health. pl...

Gene editing in plants – it's been heralded as the next step-function change in the advancement of agriculture. One Indiana company is advancing the technology fresh off a $144 million venture capital raise. Claudia Nari, Chief Product Officer of Inari, joins today to talk through this historic time for gene editing and biotechnology at large. They get into:   From speed to precision, Claudia lays out the differentiation of gene editing to other types of plant breeding  Crops of focus for Inari right now and stresses they’re focused on to enable farmer success  The company’s recent venture capital raise, their value proposition and educating investors  Inari’s unique advantage (knowing what to do, having the tools to do it and being able to do those at the same time)  The status of field trials and what commercialization will look like for Inari  Biggest problems in-field to be solved through gene editing – from yield to resource efficiencies  Regulatory hurdles and Claudia’s perspective on the acceptance of gene editing as a technology  When will Inari technology be in customer fields? And what’s next?