As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. 'Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and water,' Heritable wrote. Yet agriculture puts a massive strain on the planet and its resources, accounting for around 25% of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions. It's the planet's largest consumer of groundwater and can lead to soil erosion and water pollution via pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals. The newly independent startup is approaching these global issues by doing what Google does best: analyzing massive datasets through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Data collection is the easy part, relatively speaking. The hard part is transforming all that data into actionable instructions for growers to help bring the 12,000-year-old industry into the 21st century. Heritable Architecture's seeds were planted by founder and CEO, Brad Zamft. The physics PhD...
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