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SOIL BOOST: One Missouri company is looking at how adding microbes to the soil in the form of amendments offers the potential to increase carbon sequestrations for farmers. Pluton Biosciences partners with Bayer for a carbon sequestration project.
Barry Goldman has one goal to find the next
Bt-like row crop breakthrough but for carbon sequestration.
“There are a trillion species of microbes, and the industry has been looking at the same 100 for a long time,” the founder and CEO at Pluton Biosciences says. “But for instance, if you keep looking at the same
Bt, you ll never find anything new. We believe we can find the next breakthrough for carbon sequestration because we re looking outside the common organisms. We are looking in the massive diversity that s found in all soil.”