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Monrovia
Monrovia is a 100-year-old American plant company founded in 1926 that grows and sells premium ornamental and edible plants. Now headquartered in Dayton, Oregon, it is the nation's largest grower of premium shrubs, perennials and trees by sales and container acreage, offering more than 4,000 varieties - including 250-plus exclusives - grown across a network of regional nurseries. Under the 'Grow Beautifully' banner, Monrovia partners with top breeders and plant hunters worldwide, pioneered container-grown plants, and sells roughly 22 million plants a year through independent garden centers and its own e-commerce site.
Meiogenix
Meiogenix is a French-American agricultural biotech company that re-engineers one of nature's oldest tricks - meiotic recombination, the gene-shuffling that happens when plants make seeds. Instead of editing single genes like CRISPR, its proprietary SpiX and dCas9-SPO11 platforms steer where chromosomes cross over, unlocking 'cold' regions of the genome that conventional breeding can never reach. The result: breeders can mix desirable traits, break unwanted linkage, and shrink crop development cycles from 10-plus years to as few as three, all without introducing foreign DNA. Founded in 2010 as a spin-off from Institut Curie and INRA, the company targets the $50B+ commercial seed market across corn, wheat, rice, tomato and soybean, and licenses its technology to partners including Bayer.