Google X's 'moonshot factory' has recently announced the independent development of a new startup, Heritable Agriculture. This new company aims to improve the way crops grow using data and machine learning technologies. Heritable Agriculture stated in a press release that plants are efficient and astonishing systems: 'Plants are solar-powered, carbon-negative self-assembling machines that rely on sunlight and water to thrive.' However, agriculture puts immense pressure on the Earth and its resources.