About Us

OUTLINE

Company name

Ac-Planta Inc.

Address

Head Office
Chidori Building 3F, 2-16-9 Yushima, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0034, Japan
Yokohama Lab
75-1 Ono-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0046, Japan
U.S. Subsidiary (Ac-Planta Globe Inc.)
970 W 190th St. Suite 920 Torrance, CA, 90502, USA

Mail Address

info@ac-planta.com

Date of establishment

February 7, 2018

CEO & Founder

Kim, Jong- Myong

Business Description

Research, development, manufacture, and sales of biostimulants that induce tolerance to environmental stress in plants, such as drought, high temperatures, and salt damage.
Manufacture and sale of agricultural materials, lawn materials, horticultural materials, forest materials, and greening materials.
Management of water-saving systems in plant factories and farms.

Awards and Grants

Received a grant as an academic-based venture from Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 2020.
Title: “Biostimulant Materials for Making Plants Tolerant to Drought and High Temperatures.”
Received Special Prize and Kansai Electric Power Award at Tech Sirius 2020 sponsored by Tech Axel Ventures, LLC.
Title: “Skeepon,” Protecting Greenery with the Power of Science.”
Received a R&D Grant from Mitsubishi UFJ Technology Development Foundation 2019 by Mitsubishi UFJ Technology Development Foundation.
Title: “Development of safe products to protect plants from environmental stress”
Received Grand Prize at the 6th Agritech Grand Prix hossted by Liberace Inc.
Title: “Biostimulant materials (plant-activating agent) for plants using acetic acid to protect from high temperature and drought”
Received Excellence Award at Innovation in Food, Agriculture, and Life 1st JA Accelerator 2019 sponsored by The Norinchukin Bank, JA Group, and 01 Booster Co.
Title: “Skeepon,” a material that uses the power of acetic acid to protect plants from environmental stress”
Received 2018 Research Encouragement Award by RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.
Selected as a publicly solicited project called “Development of Production Technologies for Bio-based Products to Accelerate the Realization of Carbon Recycling / Research and Development Item [3] Demonstration of an Industrial Material Production System“ run by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).
Project name: “Demonstration of a highly integrated sugar production system using epigenetic metabolic conversion technology”

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Jong-Myong Kim Ph.D. Founder / CEO

Dr. Jong-Myong KIM is the founder and CEO of Ac-Planta Inc. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Bioscience from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan in 2001. He then discovered an essential mechanism of amino acid metabolisms for mitochondrial DNA maintenance. Subsequently, Dr. Kim conducted an epigenetics study in yeast as a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. Michael Grunstein’s Lab., Molecular Biology Institute at UCLA. After returning to Japan, he joined the RIKEN Plant Science Center, where he pioneered plant research linking environmental stress and epigenetics. Based on this research, he discovered that all plants could tolerate water deficit stress using acetic acid (Kim et al., 2017 Nature Plants). In order to expedite the application of his findings to benefit society and to help top resolve the global food crisis and environmental problems caused by global warming, he established Ac-Planta Inc. and became CEO. He is also an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

Biography 略歴

2001: Ph.D. (Bioscience), received from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2003: Research Scientist, Institute for Molecular Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
2005: Research Scientist, RIKEN Plant Science Center
2018: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo