Function Generator™ is broadly applicable and will enable improvements in numerous microbial species used across multiple industries.

Renewable fuels & chemicals

Primordial Genetics is soliciting collaborations and partnerships with companies in this space to produce tolerance phenotypes for toxic products and productivity increases in biological production systems.

Life Sciences R&D and industrial protein production

Primordial Genetics is developing improved bacterial and yeast strains for DNA cloning, protein expression for R&D purposes, and commercial protein production

Natural products and antibiotic discovery and production

Function Generator™ enables the discovery and production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals with novel structures through genetic optimizations of actinomycete bacteria and other microbial sources of natural products.

• More efficient microbial production of pharmaceuticals and other small molecule natural products
• Discovery of general genetic solutions for unlocking silent biosynthetic pathways in actinomycete bacteria

Primordial Genetics has established a collaboration with Fermalogic Inc. to pursue large-scale isolation of activated actinomycete strains secreting natural products possessing diverse structures and novel activities.

Crop plant applications

Function Generator™ can spur the development of advanced traits for use in transgenic crop plants.

• Herbicide tolerance
• Stress tolerance
• Photosynthetic efficiency and productivity