Precision Gene Editing for a Resilient Food Future
We harness CropEditas™, our proprietary CRISPR-based precision platform, to unlock traits that make crops more resilient, nutritious, and efficient — empowering farmers, consumers and strengthening global food security.
The Global Imperative: Why genome editing matters now
Agriculture faces accelerating pressure from climate change, population growth, and nutritional demand. Traditional breeding is too slow to respond.
Genome editing offers a powerful and necessary response by enabling key trait advancements:
The expected population by 2030, demanding a food production rate that traditional breeding methods cannot meet.
People already suffering from malnutrition. Biofortification and trait development must be faster and more precise.
The Solution
Faced with this urgency, the CropEditas™ platform provides the fast, precise, and scalable path required. We are our partners’ One-Step Solution for trait development, ensuring innovation reaches the field rapidly and reliably.
Our story & mission
MaxEditas was founded with a clear purpose: to unlock the genetic potential of the world’s most valuable and hard-to-edit crops. While many gene-editing platforms focused on model species, we built a biotechnology company engineered specifically for the real challenges of global agriculture—speed, precision, and scalability.
CropEditas™ A faster, smarter, affordable, scalable platform
Faster and cheaper than traditional breeding
Non-GMO, with stable, targeted traits
Reproducible and scalable + Technical Edge The 360° One-Stop Global Partnership.
Why MaxEditas®
World-class scientific team, including key researchers with direct experience from the Nobel-winning CRISPR discoverer Jennifer Doudna’s lab.
In-house R&D in Sacramento and world-class team from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and Texas A&M turn scientific breakthroughs into field-ready solutions.