Foray Bioscience, a plant production company growing plant products and “seeds” from cells, today announced the launch of Pando, an intelligent workspace and operating system for plant culture. By combining the world’s largest structured in vitro plant knowledge base with AI-native research tools, protocol infrastructure and laboratory operations, Pando allows plant scientists to search, structure, manage, share and generate plant culture knowledge from a single platform. Already in use across academic and commercial environments, the platform accelerates plant culture experimentation and production, and scales valuable biological intelligence over time.
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Poplar propagation at Foray supporting a biomanufacturing workflow. Using Pando, Foray develops and optimizes workflows for future plant biomanufacturing applications. Photo: BEAM Studio
As the foundation of food systems, materials, medicines and natural ecosystems, plants underpin roughly half of the global GDP. However, the infrastructure supporting plant research and development is highly fragmented and underdeveloped. Critical plant knowledge remains scattered across academic papers, spreadsheets, PDFs, lab notebooks and institutional memory that is difficult to search, standardize or operationalize. Complicating this reality is the biological challenge itself: There are more than 350,000 species of land plants, yet only ~2% have been meaningfully studied in vitro. As a result, growing anything from the cell up, which can involve more than 40 interacting variables for a single plant culture workflow, often requires starting from scratch, which significantly increases development timelines, costs and failure rates.
“Translation of new plant products and crop varieties, from lab to market, hinges on successful in vitro workflows. Today, more than 70% of these projects fail due to the extreme complexity of protocol design: A single production process depends on more than 34 individual variables, which would require a boggling 17 billion experiments and more than 2 billion years to fully explore,” said Ashley Beckwith, founder and CEO of Foray. “The future of plant production requires turning plant knowledge into predictive models that improve the odds of success, learning and improving over time. This is exactly what Pando supports, equipping organizations with the data and infrastructure to make plant knowledge translatable and compounding, so plant innovations no longer have to begin from zero.”
Pando supports organizations working across the full lifecycle of plant propagation, bioengineering, biomanufacturing, research and conservation. Customers use the platform to save time designing and performing protocols and experiments, improve institutional knowledge sharing and retention, level up junior staff, and achieve successful in vitro protocols over 3X faster. Pando also enables users to:
- Access to the world’s largest in vitro plant knowledge base
- Surface unique insights across plant taxa, or rapidly compare media formulations from across sources
- Build and share media, protocols and products with embedded data standards
- Receive project support from a locally-adapted, AI plant expert
- Manage biological collections and tasks across teams
- Design statistically-sound experiments
- And soon: predict and score protocol performance before setting foot in the lab
Foray bridges plant biology, AI and biomanufacturing, and works with partners to shave years off the path from lab to field. The company leverages Pando internally to build bioproducts like fabricated seeds. Foray recently entered into commercial partnerships with Z’s Nutty Ridge to unlock the U.S. domestic hazelnut supply and West Coast Chestnut to accelerate the path to market for new chestnut plant varieties.
Pando is available today via self-serve signup, with three tiers of service plans:
- Core ($0/month) – Free access to foundational tools that accelerate plant culture workflows.
- Plus ($99/month) – Expanded knowledge, insights and AI-assisted experimentation for individuals and small teams.
- Pro ($249/month)- Collaborative infrastructure for teams to capture institutional knowledge, coordinate workflows and improve predictive capabilities over time.
To sign up or view more details, visit pando.foraybio.com.
About Foray Bioscience
Foray is a plant production company using plant cells, artificial intelligence, and advanced biomanufacturing to grow materials, molecules, and seeds directly from the cell up. By combining predictive AI/ML with in vitro plant biology, Foray helps unlock resilient crops, scalable seed systems, harvest-free plant products, and new forms of bioproduction across industries. Founded in 2022 by Dr. Ashley Beckwith following her work at MIT and Draper Laboratory, Foray is building the technologies that will define the Green Frontier — translating plant diversity into usable products, resilient supply chains, and new forms of abundance. For more information, visit www.foraybio.com or follow the company on LinkedIn.
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