Scientist – Plant Genome Editing

Soilcea S.L.U. | Spain – Barcelona area, Madrid, Valencia or Seville (lab site to be confirmed) | Full-time

About us

Soil Culture Solutions, LLC (d/b/a Soilcea) develops CRISPR-edited crops that resist devastating plant diseases. In Florida, Huanglongbing (citrus greening), together with canker and hurricanes, has cut citrus production by around 90% since the early 2000s and caused billions in losses. Soilcea, headquartered in Tampa, holds exclusive licenses to foundational CRISPR technologies in citrus from the University of Florida, built on more than a decade of research at UF/IFAS. In 2026 we took that science all the way to market. CarriCea T1, a Carrizo rootstock carrying three edits for resistance to citrus greening, became the first CRISPR-edited citrus rootstock registered by the US EPA (April 2026) and was cleared by the USDA in June. Florida growers have since ordered more than 300,000 CarriCea T1 trees, and they are going into the ground ahead of the 2026–27 season.



Very few companies anywhere have taken a gene-edited tree crop from the bench, through regulators and into commercial orchards. Soilcea has done it.

Now we are bringing that success to Europe. Through our new Spanish subsidiary, Soilcea S.L.U., we are applying the same approach to olive and other Mediterranean crops threatened by disease and climate stress, from Xylella fastidiosa to drought and heat. The timing could not be better: the EU’s new rules for new genomic techniques (NGTs) open a realistic route to market for precision-edited crops, and Spain is the world’s largest olive producer.

Our olive programme is being developed with Agromillora, the Spanish nursery group and one of the world’s leading suppliers of olive and fruit-tree plants, which brings the propagation capacity and grower reach to take edited trees from the lab to the orchard. We also work with leading universities and research institutes in Spain and across Europe, including the Uni

📌 Scientist - Plant Genome Editing (Barcelona)
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