Enterprise technology provider Oracle and agricultural technology firm Wild Bioscience (Wild Bio) have announced a collaboration to advance crop resilience and agricultural carbon removal using artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
Under the agreement, Wild Bio will integrate Oracle Cloud and Oracle Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into its global field research operations. The integrated platform will gather, aggregate, and analyze real-time field trial data to evaluate crop performance, yield efficiency, and atmospheric carbon dioxide removal potential under varied agricultural conditions.
Wild Bio utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze wild plant genomes, identifying evolved genetic traits that enable adaptation to environmental stress. Researchers then introduce these target traits into commercial crop varieties to enhance resilience, resource efficiency, and carbon sequestration.
Clay Magouyrk, Chief Executive Officer of Oracle, stated that combining artificial intelligence with plant biology research provides scalable opportunities to improve global food security and environmental resilience.
Professor Steve Kelly, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Wild Bio, highlighted that addressing climate change and food security simultaneously requires crop varieties capable of maintaining productivity under climate stress while actively sequestering carbon. He noted that the cloud and IoT infrastructure will provide the data analytics capacity necessary to measure real-world field performance.
The collaboration aligns with Oracle’s corporate sustainability framework, which targets net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its global value chain by 2050 through direct decarbonization alongside high-integrity carbon removal solutions for residual emissions.
