bio
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Abbott is chief executive of Pivot Bio, a company that sells plant-nourishing microbes, and war in Iran has created an opening.
In 2022, Pivot Bio’s microbes were used on 3 million acres of corn, more than triple the 2021 total.
Pivot Bio uses a technique called gene editing to develop microbes that grab nitrogen, which plants need to grow, from the air.
Abbott invested in Pivot Bio when he was co-head of Continental Grain’s venture-capital arm.
Since then, Pivot Bio has been cooking up more efficient microbes and building a distribution network better equipped to advise farmers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.