Brief Description
2Blades was established as a 501(c)3 charitable organization to implement practical uses of important innovations in plant science that address the rising incidence of crop disease. Working together with world leading scientists in plant-pathogen interactions, 2Blades has scouted and supported the most significant advances in the understanding of plant disease and immunity, as well as enabling technologies to develop disease resistant crops.
Remarkable advances have been realized in plant science over the past twenty years, including genome sequencing, molecular marker technologies, and tools for genome engineering. These advances have vastly improved the understanding of plants and their interaction with pathogens, and they create opportunities for better means of breeding for durable disease resistance. Yet typically these opportunities have stalled at the basic research stage.
The organization was formed to develop and commercialize genetic disease resistance technology, which was co-invented by invented by 2Blades Scientific Advisory Board member Brian John Staskawicz co-invented the organization's foundational technology as a UC Berkeley Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology.
Timeline
- 2004. Two Blades established as a non-profit foundation
Inventors
Douglas Dahlbeck, Brian Staskawicz, Thomas Tai