Chris Hendrickson
Chief Science Officer
Aurorevo
Toulouse, France
Co-Founder and CSO of Aurorevo- an agTech start-up. We are leveraging endemic plant biodiversity to build new resilient crops starting with high protein lupin.
My organisation
Aurorevo is leveraging natural biodiversity to develop new and reinvigorated novel crops that use water more efficiently, reduce the need for inputs, and are adapted to survive in the climates of the future.
Currently the entire world relies on only 174 commercially grown crops with very limited internal genetic diversity. But there are more than 30,000 species that we know can provide food, and the vast majority have never been domesticated and have been ignored by agricultural researchers up until now. We find new opportunities by exploring this natural biodiversity.
About me
US-Based agTech co-founder and Chief Science Officer working with Business France personnel to relocate our business, Aurorevo Inc. to Toulouse. Aurorevo is building the next generation of climate-resilient food, feed and fuel crop leveraging native and naturalized plant biodiversity. We are starting with a high protein, drought tolerant hybrid lupin bridging Old World agrinomics with New World lupin heat and drought tolerance.
Skills
- Research
- innovation
- Genomics
- plant biology
- agriculture
- Biodiversity
Interests
- innovation
- Nature
- native plants
- hiking