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AI spin-out and F1 Seeds partner for precision-bred wheat

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A University of Oxford spinout that designs improved crops for resilient agriculture has announced the acquisition of independent wheat breeding business F1 Seed Ltd. Wild Bioscience Ltd (Wild Bio) is joining forces with F1 Seed to become a fully integrated, end-to-end UK seed company, positioning it to address the escalating crisis in British agriculture. The company says the acquisition unites two halves of the same solution to crop improvement. F1 Seed Ltd brings a diverse germplasm pipeline built over more than a decade; Wild Bio brings evolutionary biology, gene editing, and AI-led trait discovery for precise genetic improvement. Together they…