Soil Culture Solutions LLC - dba Soilcea - is structured around creating CRISPR-edited citrus trees that are highly tolerant to the citrus industryâs deadliest diseases. With a major loss in the State of Florida alone already estimated at over $7.8B, due to two bacterial diseases - citrus canker and Huanglongbing (greening), - are decimating the State's citrus industry. In close collaboration with leading researchers at the University of Floridaâs Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, the in-house team of Soilcea is working to forestall the rapid decline of citrus production and - using the targeted CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system - to deliver citrus trees highly tolerant to these deadly pathoge
