We make them stronger.
We use the genetic information from your own plants so you choose with data, not just by sight. Advance your varieties to face climate, disease, and drought challenges years earlier.
Less Cycle Time
Your best varieties take years to arrive. Climate, disease, and the market don't wait.
Phenotype-only selection is partial
Today you choose your best plants by looking at them: taste, size, color, how well they hold up. It works, but it's slow, and by sight you miss information that's already in the plant.
The market window keeps shrinking
Each round of crossing and selection takes years. The window to respond is shorter.
Your competitive edge is at risk
If a rival starts choosing with genetic data before you do, your differentiator erodes.
New demands, faster than your process
New requirements (better transport, flavor profile) arrive faster than your program can respond
With the DNA of your own plants, you choose better from year one and move at least 60% faster.
Today you wait years for each plant to grow before you know how it turned out. We read its DNA when it's still a seedling. From the start, you know which plants have what you're looking for (more yield, better flavor, resistance to a disease) so you plant only the ones worth your time and stop investing years in the ones that won't.
Less Cycle Time
Earlier decisions mean fewer resources spent on plants that would have been eliminated anyway.
More runway for the candidates that matter.
Map the genome
months 1-4
Identify markers
months 5-12
Screen at sclae
months 12-18
"You carry the strategy. We carry the technical operation."
You Decide
Which traits matter in your program. What you want to achieve. When to introduce new varieties. Your team knows your market.
We Operate
The lab, the analysis, the report. The full genomics infrastructure. You don't need to build your own.
For your technical team
We map the genome of your parents, identify the markers associated with your priority traits, and screen your seedlings by PCR before they go to the field. This is marker-assisted selection and genomic selection applied to your program.
The 60% comes from there: you replace years of field evaluation with an early prediction in the lab, and you eliminate the growth cycles you currently spend on material that wouldn't have worked.
Six products. Each one delivers a decision.
No bundle required. Each product is independently scoped. Some are entry points. Some build on the previous one.
Lens
Know whether you need genomics before committing further.
Map
Entry point. Defines what material you work with.
Pulse
Multiplex PCR for the pathogens that matter in your crop.
Markers
Your program's functional panel. Validated in your population.
Sift
Genetic mass selection using validated markers.
Watch
Subscription. Continuous detection, any species.
Berries are our proven core, but we are curious about other species
The same methodology (genomics, markers, screening) applies to other clonally propagated and hybrid crops: potato, grapevine, avocado, ornamentals.
For non-berries, we work by custom scoping after a discovery conversation. There is no catalog. There is a method.
Proven core (pipelines built and in-course projects)
Custom scoping (under consideration)
Genomics strengthens your team. It does not replace it.
Your team knows your crops, your fields, and your market better than anyone. Genomics gives them one more tool to decide, in less time, with more information. The decision stays with them.
We work as a technical adoption partner: we equip your team so they depend on us less over time, not more.
Who's behind the work
Our team has background and training across MIT, FH Reutlingen, Universität Potsdam, UNAM, Harvard Medical School, and iGEM.
We work using Oxford Nanopore Technology's platform and powerful computer clusters to unleash the haplotype-resolving capabilites of long-read sequencing,
Our operations are 100% in Mexico.
Auragen is the plant genomics brand of Granatum Bioworks, one of the first commercial-scale biotechnology platform companies in Latin America.
The first step is small and reversible.
2 weeks
A structured read of your existing material. Understand what you have before committing to a selection strategy.
4 months
The standard entry point. One field visit, full marker panel, decision on what material to work with.
Either one opens the door. No annual contract, no lock-in. Pricing is built in conversation based on the scope of your program.
Auragen
Plant genomics, locally operated in Mexico.
Auragen is part the ecosystem of Granatum-bioworks.
Contact
Operations in Mexico. Serving breeding programs in Mexico and Latin America.
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Prices shown on this site are indicative starting points. Final pricing is built per program in conversation.
Your varieties are your greatest advantage.