Friedberg says precision gene editing compresses plant breeding from seven to thirteen years down to one year, 100 times faster.
“So there's a massive transformation happening in plant breeding. What used to be, you know, a seven to thirteen year cycle, you can actually do a 100 times better than that by doing precision gene editing in a year, and in biologics, there's so many products that seem to have extraordinary potential at replacing traditional inputs, biopesticides, bio fertilizers,”