Powerful technology
Precision fermentation is being seen as a strong technological platform to help transform food production systems, taking ingredient production into the future by enriching New Zealand's protein trade through a low-emission circular bioeconomy.
The fermentation process uses microbes as cell factories to produce proteins and other nutrients that are functionally equivalent to traditional animal sources.
Precision fermentation uses directly modified microorganisms such as yeast and bacteria to convert simple carbohydrates into specific target molecules of proteins or lipids. We propose to turn recovered bioresources from the primary industries, forestry and forage, into low-cost fermentation feedstocks for these microbes, optimise the microbial production systems, grow single-cell protein biomass at scale for spinoff as a high protein feed, and design precision fermentation around proteins and products that are in global demand.