Original award made to location in Sarasota, FL, firm's current website identifies the firm as located in Alemeda CA. Chi Botanic is organized around using a very different approach to propogae high value plant products: plant cell cultures. The anticipated substantial - and rapid - increase in the world's population is meaning that traditional agriculture is inadequate sustainably meet the demand. An increasing number of plant products are made from a small portion of a plant or from plants that grows slowly: utilization of low-efficiency natural products makes them very expensive and unscalable while also squandering available land and resources (e.g.energy and fresh water,) while at the same time increasing the negative impacts caused by fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. With the added advantage of lower cost, the plant cell cultures developed by Chi Botanic can be grown under controlled conditions efficiently and largely unaffected by geography, climate, or season.
