{"id":205265,"date":"2025-02-02T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/googles-x-spins-out-heritable-agriculture-a-startup-using-ai-to-improve-crop-yield"},"modified":"2025-02-02T12:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:23:49","slug":"googles-x-spins-out-heritable-agriculture-a-startup-using-ai-to-improve-crop-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/googles-x-spins-out-heritable-agriculture-a-startup-using-ai-to-improve-crop-yield","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-x-spins-out-heritable-agriculture-a-startup-using-ai-to-improve-crop-yield.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s X \u201cmoonshot factory\u201d this week announced its latest graduate. <a href=\"https:\/\/heritable.ag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Heritable Agriculture<\/a> is a data-and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown.<\/p>\n<p>As the firm noted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.company\/blog\/posts\/heritable-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announcement post<\/a> published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. \u201cPlants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and water,\u201d Heritable wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Yet agriculture puts a massive strain on the planet and its resources, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/food-ghg-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">accounting for around 25%<\/a> of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions. It\u2019s the planet\u2019s largest consumer of groundwater and can lead to soil erosion and water pollution via pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s X \u201cmoonshot factory\u201d this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data-and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. \u201cPlants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}