Calyxt

Descripción de la compañía

Calyxt is a Minnesota based biotech company focused on improving the quality of crops for the food and agriculture industries.

Prior to May 2015, the company was named Cellectis Plant Sciences, Inc

Calyxt is developing a network of partnerships in order to secure accessibility of its food products to consumers.

Calyxt activities include the development of potato lines with a single endogenous gene responsible for sugar accumulation during cold storage inactivated.

Tipos de productos que ofrece esta empresa

- Investigación y Desarrollo

Noticias de esta Compañia

A bruised potato. The discoloration that occurs after tissue damage is largely caused by the activity of the enzyme polyphenoloxidase (PPO). In the Calyxt PPO_KO potato variety (one of the) genes coding for the PPO enzyme is knocked out, making the variet

Octubre 26, 2016

USDA clears Calyxt potato modified to withstand bruising

A new potato variety that’s genetically modified to withstand bruising has been cleared for commercialization without undergoing USDA’s deregulatory process for biotech crops.

Digging up the first field grown Calyxt cold storable potatoes

Noviembre 09, 2015

Calyxt completes first field trials of its cold-storable potatoes

Calyxt, Inc., a Minnesota-based company focusing on developing healthier food products, has announced that it has completed the first field trials of its cold storable potato.

Julio 09, 2015

Calyxt Launches Field Trials of its Cold Storable Potato

Calyxt, Inc., a Minnesota-based company focusing on developing healthier food products, today announced that it has started the field trials of its cold storable potato.

Potato protoplasts expressing green florescence to demonstrate high transformation efficiency.

Abril 15, 2015

Cellectis reduces cold sweetening in potato by inactivating a single gene

Cellectis Plant Sciences, Inc. has announced today that the Plant Biotechnology Journal has accepted the publication of its peer-reviewed manuscript demonstrating the phenotypic validation of potato lines developed by inactivating a single endogenous gene responsible for sugar accumulation when stored at cold temperatures.