--- title: Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops description: Robigo, an agtech startup co-founded by MIT alumna Andee Wallace, engineers naturally occurring microbes using RNA interference and CRISPR-derived tools to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-farmers-a-more-sustainable-way-to-protect-crops-zufzwjivz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops | daily.dev og:description: Robigo, an agtech startup co-founded by MIT alumna Andee Wallace, engineers naturally occurring microbes using RNA interference and CRISPR-derived tools to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-farmers-a-more-sustainable-way-to-protect-crops-zufzwjivz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zufzWJIvz.png og:image:alt: Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Robigo, an agtech startup co-founded by MIT alumna Andee Wallace, engineers naturally occurring microbes using RNA interference and CRISPR-derived tools to fight crop pathogens more precisely than chemical pesticides and more effectively than existing microbial alternatives. Field trials across five states, including with soybeans and lettuce, reportedly matched the performance of leading chemical pesticides at lower cost, with one trial showing a 250 percent yield increase over a competing microbial product. The company is scaling fourfold this year and partnering with agrochemical companies to expand to new crops. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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