Agri-Pulse reports:
Corteva Agriscience is employing AI to identify molecules that can be used in crop protection, a company scientist will tell a House subcommittee today.
Brian Lutz, vice president of agricultural solutions, will present testimony to the environment subcommittee of the House Science, Space & Technology Committee. In it, he says the company recently used AI “to model how 10,000 different molecules might be used in crop protection, all within a matter of weeks.”
The model was able to identify “dozens of new potential crop protection molecules that our chemists could not have found otherwise. We are currently testing these now. This is the new face of ag innovation.”
Lutz also will say that with AI, “We can begin to predict the incredible diversity of biomolecules and metabolites that are produced by microbes and other organisms, with the goal of unlocking the secrets within plant biology to develop the next generation of safe, highly targeted, nature-inspired products.”
