Funding will help further build out the Agrospheres platform, which manufactures, encapsulates and delivers biological pesticides.
New funds will go towards commercializing Catalera products and building out the product development pipeline.
SOLASTA Bio says its biopeptide products perform “as effective or better than standard insecticides.”
If traditional pesticides are blunt instruments for killing pests, RNAi (RNA interference) is the polar opposite, says Dr. John Husnik, CEO at Vancouver-based Renaissance Bioscience. “It’s exceptionally precise.”
The R&D partnership aims to eventually develop a commercial product.
The two companies will combine swarming with heavy-payload drones for more precise, effective spraying on specialty crops.
Invaio and Peptyde Bio will be able to speed up development of and access to reliable, more sustainable crop protection.
Acquiring Biotrop gives Biobest an automatic entry into the South American market for biological crop products.
Peter R. Mueller talks food security, efficacy and a host of other reasons we need both biological and chemical crop protection.
Despite an overall increase in agtech adoption, farmers around the world still lag in terms of adding new sustainability practices to their operations.
Soil biotech, food waste, and sustainable beverages were among the winning concepts Latin American agrifoodtech startups pitched to an audience last month.
Top Ag Biotech investment deals in 2021 covered gene editing, farm inputs, animal health solutions, and biofertilizers, among others.
Startups developing biological crop inputs secured a total of $892 million in funding last year.
The Ithaca, New York-based startup will use the funding to commercialize its biopesticide product and expand field trials to more row crops.
RNA plays an essential role in the genetic machinery of all living things – so there are myriad potential uses of bio-targeted RNA beyond agriculture, too.
With the new acquisition, RNAissance plans to ramp up production of its sprayable RNA pesticides while expanding production.
The publicly-traded company is responding to the increasing number of countries banning chemical inputs by innovating bio-based solutions.
In the bio-based inputs race, this California-based startup thinks a foliar coating approach for tackling pests can overcome the biologics efficacy debate.
Boost’s microbe discovery platform enables it to conduct multiple micro-experiments to measure the performance and interactions of different microbes in agriculture.
Vestaron wants farmers to know that its peptide-based products are different from existing microbial products, offering more consistent efficacy with the same environmental benefits.
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