Some soybeans make more casein than others. Jennifer’s job is to find the highest producers. Screen widely. Identify the highest expressers. Confirm the strongest performers. 🌱

The gene is there. But is it stable? Parul screens our transformed soybean lines to identify the genetics we want to carry forward across generations. Getting the gene in is only the beginning. 🌱

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Everything we need to know is inside one leaf. We freeze it, crush it and extract the DNA. That tiny sample can tell us whether the plant carries the genetics we’re looking for. Months of work. One leaf. One very important answer. Grant takes us through this process 👇🏻

From one soybean to thousands of potential plants 🌱 Jeff takes us inside somatic embryogenesis, one of the most fascinating stages in our pipeline.

One of the most interesting shifts in dairy right now is the growing value of protein. Demand is there but increasing supply through the existing system takes time. Our approach: developing casein in soybeans. Same functional protein. A completely different manufacturing system.

What if you didn’t have to wait for a soybean plant to make seeds? Somatic embryogenesis lets us produce thousands of seed analogs from transgenic material while we continue bulking seed for field trials. Two processes. Running in parallel.

Before casein DNA gets into a soybean, it has to get into bacteria. The tool? ⚡ An electric pulse. Devyn shows us how Agrobacterium gets the genetic instructions it will ultimately deliver to soybean cells.

How do you teach a soybean to make dairy proteins? 🌱 It starts with the genetics. Ken takes us inside the first stage of the pipeline: getting casein genes into soybean cells.

We engineered soybean plants to make red pods using the pigment from beets. When you’re growing specialty plants alongside commodity soybeans, you need easy visual identification. Small detail. Real operational advantage at scale.

At seven weeks, with pods still green, we freeze 5 seeds in liquid nitrogen, grind them to flour, and measure casein against known standards. One seed showing significantly more protein than the others, that’s the homozygote. Critical data, gathered months before harvest!

Passing a lab test makes a molecule. Surviving scale makes an ingredient. Troy, our VP Protein Extraction walks us through the invisible problem that defines whether Mozza casein becomes a commercial ingredient.

To identify which seeds from GGM801 carry two copies of the casein gene, we grow every seed for two to three weeks, punch a leaf, extract DNA, and run PCR with custom primers. 👉🏻The ones that come back positive for both genes become the next generation.

We took all the best genetic components we found and combined them to produce casein. We got very little protein expression. You can’t just take great individual components, put them together, expect it to work. The failure point that changed how we design our genetics:

Mendelian genetics tells us that only 25% of the seeds from Mozza's highest expressing plant line carry two copies of the casein gene. The other 75% either carry one copy or none.

Everything we've done, every seed, every gene, every round of extraction, was building toward a yes in somebody else's lab. We're this close 🤏🏻 and we think about that “yes” every single day. Eight years. One moment.

Not all soybeans are created equal. Even when they carry exactly the same genes. Same cassette. Different location in the DNA. Different result. Some produce little casein. GGM801 produces over 5% casein by seed weight. Engineering and finding that plant is the work we do.