Image of a DNMT1 DNA methyltransferase complexed with DNA provided by Enzymlogic (www.enzymlogic.com)

Epigenetic improvement of crops is both  an ancient science practiced by our ancestors to first breed crops and a new science for further improving agriculture as we are starting to understand how to increase the contributions epigenetics makes to modern crop performance. Epicrop's  technology allows us to create more epigenetic diversity than can be accomplished in traditional plant breeding. This epigenetic diversity is then bred into modern crop varieties to produce higher yielding crops.