We are in the final stages of operationalizing our RTDS® breeding platform and Trait Machine process for soybean. Once established, we will start the development process in collaboration with our partner, GDM, for our family of gene edited traits in soybean. 

We plan to lead with the development of a herbicide tolerance trait and a follow-on disease resistance trait similar to the traits being developed in our canola pipeline. In addition, in soybean we have a future plan for nematode resistance. These productivity traits are much-needed for the soybean market.

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In North America and South America, soybean is an approximately 250-million-acre market. Soybean farmers in these regions continue to be the largest users of GMO herbicide tolerance traits. Approximately 95% of the soybean crops in North and South America have GMO traits. Trait fees for these crops can range from $5 per acre to as much as $30 per acre. In each case, the trait fee is commensurate with the cost savings realized by the farmer.  Across all potential trait opportunities there are 200 million possible accessible acres. This is a very large and important crop for Cibus.

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