Mary Fernandes

Mary Fernandes, PhD, is the Co-Founder and President of Solis Agrosciences, a plant sciences
company located in St. Louis that delivers specialized research services to Agtech innovators.
She is also an Executive in Residence at BioGenerator, the startup arm of BioSTL, a non-profit
organization driving the bioscience and innovation economy in St. Louis.

publications

Emerging Technology

day one project

Policy Memo

Unlocking the U.S. Bioeconomy with the Plant Genome Project

Plants are key to enable a diversified and climate-resilient food system. Mary Fernandes proposes a Plant Genome Project (PGP), a robust Human Genome Project-style initiative to build a dataset of genetic information on plant species.

11.09.22 | 11 min read

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