CQUESTA INC

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Cquesta is an agricultural biotechnology company spun out of the Salk Institute's Harnessing Plants Initiative, holding exclusive rights to its patent-protected root gene portfolio. It improves root system architecture (RSA) of major crops to increase farmer profitability, stress resilience, and soil carbon storage for gigaton-scale CO₂ removal. The company develops commercial-ready seed traits through gene editing, transformation, genotyping, phenotyping, seed production, and field trialing, and licenses traits to seed and ag biotech companies.