Soilcea Modified Sweet Orange Receives Favorable Decision
UF Startup Soilcea’s modified sweet orange, which reportedly has resistance to HLB, has been determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) to be neither a plant pest nor a plant that requires regulation under 7 CFR part 340.
Cade Prize 2018: Winner Aims to Boost Florida Orange Groves
This year the winner of the Cade prize is a UF startup called Soilcea. Soilcea is an agricultural biotechnology company focused on using gene editing to solve citrus diseases. Soilcea changes the genes of citrus crops. “You can think of this as molecular scissors,” said Kara Boltz, lead scientist at Soilcea. “So essentially we are just […]