Forests are shrinking by billions of trees per year while demand for forest-sourced products continues to increase

Innovative approaches are needed to ensure continued access while conserving and bolstering intact forest landscapes. Foray bioscience is developing plant cell culture processes to produce the same tree products without need to harvest or process whole trees. The capability of culturing tree products creates new, strategic sourcing opportunities for products that cannot be efficiently sourced today. Using culture-based production, foray is shaping the forest products industry to maximize product access while minimizing forest impacts. Key to advancements of cultured tree products, foray is building the scientific tools required to make cell culture possible across plant species and to increase the pace of research across the industry. To address these challenges in part, the company is building a database to organize and structure information pertaining to the culture of tree and plant species. The database will be used by the company to develop predictive models to improve culture success rates in unstudied species. Prediction capabilities will be evaluated empirically and findings on the trends identified in data will be consolidated in a report.foray's databaseaims to improve translatability of plant cell culture knowledge across species and thereby reduce time and cost of culture establishment in poorly studied organisms – making more species amenable to culture-based production. The company will leverage these advancements to generate cultured tree products thatreduce forest turnover, energy-intensive processing, and waste. Furthermore, with the development of the database, foray aims to increase knowledge sharing across academia and industry to accelerate the pace of plant cell culture research. Advancements in plant cell culture technology have applications not just in culture-based production, but also in breeding, propagation, and biotechnology.