CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE

Two Labs. One Mission.

2Blades Group @ The Sainsbury Laboratory

2Blades Group @ The University of Minnesota - St. Paul

2Blades is a non-profit, agbiotech company with a mission to create a more resilient, sustainable, and productive global food supply.

By advancing cutting-edge scientific discoveries into demonstrated resistance in the field, we make crops stronger to pre-harvest threats.

We work in laboratories hosted at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK, and the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, MN. By embedding a product-oriented, non-profit company within research enterprises, we help to achieve greater impact from science — driving a rich exchange of know-how and resources into impact for agriculture through market-oriented applications.

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2Blades in Numbers

280+

Genes and technologies
delivered to partners

1,000

Resistance genes tested

18

Major crop
diseases addressed

50

Partners across 20 countries

100+

Peer-reviewed publications

One Mission. Two Markets.

Commercial farm in Brazil

Smallholder farm in Kenya

2Blades uses a dual-market business model, serving both commercial and smallholder farmers and optimizing outcomes from public and private resources.

Through strong partnerships with companies, foundations, and international agricultural development organizations along the Agricultural Innovation Chain, we have achieved effective resistance against some of the most devastating and intractable pathogens of soybean, potato, wheat, corn, and other crops and delivered traits into the pipelines of seed companies.

Our unique structure advances agricultural innovations, and our dual-market model maximizes their adoption at scale and where they are needed most.