United StatesAgriculture and food production2025 – ongoingCorteva
AI crop-protection molecule discovery
Corteva modeled 10,000 molecules in weeks
Problem
Physical screening constrained molecular discovery.
Approach
Corteva used AI to identify molecules targeting pest proteins. Chemists then tested promising candidates.
Results
10,000molecules modeled in weeks, per Corteva
Takeaway
AI narrowed 10,000 modeled molecules to dozens of candidates for testing. Their effectiveness as crop-protection products remained under evaluation.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Agriculture and food production
- Business function
- IT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
[1]Corteva20 May 2025
Lutz reported modeling 10,000 molecules. Dozens of candidates entered testing.
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Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026
