[10] One co-founder, Chairman Roger Freedman also works for Gatsby, which was founded by Lord David Sainsbury.
[11] Freedman had pitched an idea to Sainsbury's venture capital company to begin investing in plant genetic engineering technologies, and although the board did so, they found someone else to lead it.
[13] The foundation also conducts research in partnerships with the industry, including with Bayer CropScience[14][15][16] and Monsanto.
This campaign is advancing research and delivering cultivars specifically for Phytophthora infestans in Africa.
[19] Crops and pathogens of research interest to the foundation include P. infestans on potato,[20] rye,[21] Phakopsora pachyrhizi on soybean,[14][17] Puccinia graminis f. sp.