October 2017 Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award Winner - Nicolas Kral (Phytoform Labs)
Winner of the October 2017 Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award, Phytoform Labs is a plant breeding company. The business will provide customers with novel traits in common agricultural and horticultural crops that will provide resilience to climate change. Phytoform uses gene editing techniques to innovate a novel breeding approach that allows for designed traits in crops rather than breeding by chance.