Living Models says Gemma 4 and BOTANIC-1 identify causal crop mutations in hours instead of years
Summary
Living Models says its Gemma 4–powered BOTANIC-1 system can pinpoint causal crop mutations in hours, ranking the validated CmEIN3 melon flower-sex mutation first among 2,494 candidates while running locally on one NVIDIA L4 GPU.
Key Points
- Living Models pairs Gemma 4 with the plant-genome model BOTANIC-1, enabling AI-guided identification of causal crop mutations in hours rather than years of breeding and field trials.
- On a melon flower-sex trait, BOTANIC-1 ranks the validated CmEIN3 mutation first among 2,494 single-nucleotide candidates after standard mapping leaves 3,061 regional variants on Chromosome 2.
- Gemma 4 E4B runs locally through Ollama on one NVIDIA L4 GPU, while BOTANIC-1 is pre-trained on genomes from 320 plant species and keeps proprietary genomic data on-premises.