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Inari, a plant breeding technology company, introduces its mission to transform agriculture and to impact society and the environment

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Inari, a Flagship Pioneering company headquartered in Cambridge, launches a transformational plant breeding technology company.

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Inari, a Flagship Pioneering company headquartered in Cambridge, launches a transformational plant breeding technology company.
  • Inari began in early 2016 and has since recruited more than 80 leading research scientists and academic advisors from a range of diverse horizons, from plant biology to medical research.
  • Trivisvavet said, "I am thrilled to be working with exceptional people at Inari focusing on transforming plant breeding technologies and applying them to address innovation challenges.
  • Over the coming months our priority is to accelerate the deployment of our technologies into crops while increasing our cutting-edge technology and patent pool.

Flagship Pioneering Unveils Inari Agriculture

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Flagship Pioneering, a unique life sciences innovation enterprise, today unveiled the firm's latest agriculture company: Inari Agriculture .

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  • CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Flagship Pioneering, a unique life sciences innovation enterprise, today unveiled the firm's latest agriculture company: Inari Agriculture .
  • "We are committed to building our agriculture life sciences platform at Flagship Pioneering to help the world solve one of its most pressing problems: how to grow crops while also taking care of the planet," said Noubar Afeyan, founder and CEO of Flagship.
  • Ponsi Trivisvavet, who was formerly chief operating officer at Flagship Pioneering company Indigo Agriculture, was named CEO in April 2018.
  • Founded by Flagship Pioneering, a unique lifesciences innovation enterprise, Inari Agriculture is a plant breeding technology company on a mission to transform agriculture and its impact on society and the environment.