Weather is unpredictable.
Heat waves arrive with little warning, threatening crop harvests. But plants have memories too. Temporal helps crops remember how to defend themselves before stress hits.
Our Breakthrough
Stewarding agricultural resilience
Every plant has the machinery to solve underproduction built into its DNA: it just needs to be switched on. Temporal's epigenetic technology offers an immediate, scalable solution to help crops remember their innate resilience. We're helping plants remember what they already know.
Every season, weather is a gamble
Growers face an impossible choice every season: bet on a future they can’t predict. Extreme weather events and heat waves arrive with little warning.
Crops that took months to grow can be damaged in days. Farmers are at the mercy of the environment for their economic outcomes, deciding what and when to plant without knowing how the environment will behave. $50B in the U.S. ($1T globally) is lost to underproduction annually.
Climate volatility is accelerating. Farmers need solutions today.
How it works
Plant DNA is like a library of knowledge.
Our microbes remind the plant of what they already know, helping them respond proactively to prepare for future stress.
How it works / Example
Losses during heat are minimized, enabling dynamic protection and maximum crop production.
The Library
Every plant carries a 100-million-year-old manual on surviving stress. But like any encyclopedia, it can't keep every page open at once.
Molecular Bookmarks
Bookmarks on key stress-response genes target the plant’s stress-resilience genes without altering DNA.
Stress-Primed Crops
When heat stress approaches, plants can instantly "flip" to the right page of information and activate their natural defenses.
BENEFITS
Why use Temporal?
Transient
Epigenetic intervention without altering the plant DNA
Natural
Activates plants' existing defense systems
Proactive
Protection before stress hits
Temporary
Naturally removed once stress passes
And more
More foliage, healthier plants, increased yield under heat stress
For Farmers / Use Case
From forecast to protection in 48 hours
Protect your harvest with Temporal
Mon
Weather forecast shows heat wave approaching in 10 days
Tue
Farmer applies Temporal through existing irrigation or spray systems
Wed – Thu
Epigenetic bookmarks activate in plant cells
The Next Week
Heat wave hits: crops maintain growth while neighbors' fields show stress
Result: 15-20% yield protection
OUR STORY
Temporal began with two insights.
Chuck, after years speaking with farmers around the world, saw how weather dominated every decision. Weather is a relentless force they couldn't control but were forced to bet against every season.
Savannah, studying avocados, uncovered a hidden layer of intelligence: trees were passing memories to their fruit through epigenetics.
Together, they realized the future of farming might not be in rewriting DNA, but in helping plants remember what they already know. Temporal Agriculture is the result: a company built to unlock plants' resilience from their own memory libraries.
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