# Living Models pairs Gemma 4 E4B with BOTANIC-1 to identify crop mutations

AI lab Living Models combined Gemma 4 E4B with the genomic language model BOTANIC-1 to accelerate crop gene discovery, ranking a target melon yield mutation first among 2,494 candidates within an afternoon of computation.

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Source: Google Gemma · Published 10/7/2026, 08:33:30

AI lab Living Models has paired Gemma 4 E4B with BOTANIC-1, a genomic language model, to speed up identifying the DNA responsible for climate-resilient crops—a process that traditionally required years of physical breeding.

Under this architecture, Gemma processes the genomic data and feeds filtered candidate sequences to BOTANIC-1, which evaluates evolutionary impact to pinpoint causal mutations. In a recent test, the pipeline identified a target melon yield mutation in an afternoon of computation, ranking it first out of 2,494 candidate possibilities.

Tags: Gemma, Living Models, BOTANIC-1, Genomics

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