# AgBiome

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/agbiome/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

AgBiome was an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 2012 by Scott Uknes, Eric Ward, Jeff Dangl, John Ryals and Paul Schulze-Lefert, it built the proprietary GENESIS discovery platform — a collection of more than 100,000 fully sequenced, isolated plant-associated microbial strains and hundreds of millions of gene sequences, screened with high-throughput assays for insect, disease and nematode control — and turned it into crop-protection biologicals. It commercialized the Howler and Theia biofungicides and had a third, Esendo, before the EPA, and it spun out the genome-editing venture LifeEDIT Therapeutics in October 2020 (acquired by ElevateBio in October 2021). Backed by Syngenta, Novozymes, Monsanto, ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pontifax and UTIMCO, the company nonetheless failed to raise further capital: it filed a North Carolina WARN notice in late 2023 covering its entire staff of 123, sold Howler and Theia to Certis Biologicals (a Mitsui & Co. subsidiary) in March 2024, and sold its platform assets to Ginkgo Bioworks in April 2024 for roughly $18.2 million in stock. AgBiome never published a developer program, public API, SDK, or machine-readable specification, and agbiome.com no longer serves the company site — it answers from a Nexcess shared-hosting placeholder under a certificate issued to CN=nxcli.net. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 0.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-25 under rubric 0.23.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 0.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Crop Protection, Biologicals, Life Sciences, Research

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/agbiome/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.