The funding of CHF 8.9M enables the company to establish a large-scale production site in Switzerland with the capacity to upcycle over 20,000 tons of brewers’ spent yeast annually.

PoLoPo, a molecular farming pioneer, today announced it has moved beyond greenhouse scale and begun planting its genetically modified potatoes in fields, the first wide cultivation of plants derived from PoLoPo’s proprietary metabolic engineering techniques. PoLoPo’s potato plants manufacture and store high levels of protein in their tubers, which will be extracted and dried to produce functional protein powder.