Plantik Biosciences and Hudson River Biotechnology form partnership to develop heat-tolerant strawberries

Type: Partnership · Technology: Agriculture · Country: France/United States · Announced: 2026-09-28

Plantik Biosciences and Hudson River Biotechnology announced a partnership on 2026-09-28 to combine Plantik’s heat-tolerant trait discoveries in tomato with Hudson River’s transgene-free genome editing in strawberries. The collaboration will use Plantik’s ATLANTIS machine learning platform to identify regulatory targets and Hudson River’s BioMaas platform to perform edits directly in commercial strawberry germplasm, with validation trials already underway in greenhouses and fields. The work targets heat tolerance — a trait Plantik previously developed in tomato in about 12 months and is now applying to octoploid strawberry varieties, which require clonal propagation techniques Hudson River can handle. The deal is structured as a technology and breeding partnership that will allow other breeders and third-party trait developers to access the combined pipeline and network; trials are running in the US and Belgium and the companies intend to extend the approach to other crops. No financial terms, capacity, or specific commercial licensing dates were disclosed in the announcement.

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