Article Issue: February 2014

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited (“Sumitomo”), Tokyo, Japan, announced that Michael Donaldson, president and CEO of Valent U.S.A. Corporation (Walnut Creek, CA), Valent BioSciences Corporation (Libertyville, […]

Valent BioSciences Corporation (VBC) and Biomar Microbial Technologies have announced the signing of a commercialization agreement under which the two companies will collaborate on the […]

Arysta LifeScience North America announced a product, aβpro Yield Enhancer, that uses alphaBeta proteins to stimulate plants’ natural growth responses to increase photosynthesis and nutrient […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) announced it has secured a license of certain intellectual property rights from Kao Corporation for a plant health active ingredient. […]

Plants sustain bacterial communities in their roots that are beneficial to them. Klaus Schläppi and Paul Schulze-Lefert from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding […]

Koppert Brazil has greatly strengthened its position in the Brazilian biological crop protection market by taking over Manejo Agrícola, an important distributor for Koppert, selling […]

The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) can spread the lethal and incurable citrus disease known as huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening that threatens the multi-billion dollar […]

The French company Agrauxine, based in Angers and Quimper, and producing microbials for use in biocontrol and biostimulants applications, has just announced that it has […]

Purdue University team identified a master regulator protein in plants that controls many plant processes, including fungal disease infection processes. Dr. Tesfaye Mengiste, professor of […]

Novozymes A/S said in a statement that Novozymes and Monsanto have completed the closing of the BioAg alliance. The announcement follows the satisfaction of relevant […]

Virginia Tech researchers who first discovered a devastating pest in India and devised a natural way to combat it have now put an economic value […]

Makhteshim Agan Industries (“MAI”) announced that it will transition to a new global brand, “ADAMA”, beginning in April 2014. To support the initiative, MAI changed […]

Vestaron Corp. said this month that Dr. John Sorenson would make the step up from interim CEO to full-time CEO. He had served in the […]

Andermatt Biocontrol establishes its French subsidiary Andermatt France in January 2014. Founded more than 25 years ago, Andermatt Biocontrol – which is part of the […]

ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd. (“ADAMA”), announced that its board of directors has appointed Chen Lichtenstein as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective February […]

Futureco Bioscience restructures its R&D and adds to its staff a senior and two junior researchers. With these additions the company accelerates the launch of […]

Humintech GmbH is expanding its production capacity and therefore moved to a new production plant (30.000 m²) in Grevenbroich, Germany. Humintech used to produce its […]

BIOLCHIM S.p.A., in accordance with its strategy for internationalization, has announced the establishment of a new subsidiary in Poland, BIOLCHIM POLSKA Sp. z o.o. The […]

Leili Agrochemistry Co., Ltd. Changes officially its name to Leili Marine Bioindustry Inc. Leili experienced three significant development stages during its 21 years of existence. […]

Marrone Bio Innovations (MBII) has “officially” entered into the biostimulant arena with your announced commercial licensing agreement with Kao Corporation. How do you contrast opportunities […]

BIOCOMES, a new EU project, offers farmers and foresters the prospect of having at least eleven new biological control products at their disposal. The biological […]

The EPA posted a paper, "RNAi Technology as a Pesticide: Problem Formulation for Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment," and the charge to the Federal […]

SERVALESA and CHEMINOVA have signed an agreement for registration and commercial development of six Servalesa products in the CIS region through the company Cheminova LLC […]

Spiders have been doing a very efficient job of killing insects for millennia. Now, Vestaron Corp. has federal approval to borrow spiders’ natural chemistry as […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) and The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (Plant & Food Research) announce the signing of a […]

Luxembourg Industries Ltd., Israel, in cooperation with Israeli Volcani Center has developed a new method for controlling a large variety of pests on fresh herbs […]

The Italian producer of specialty fertilizers and biostimulants BIOLCHIM S.p.A., in accordance with its strategy for internationalization, just announced the establishment of a new subsidiary […]

The French company Agrauxine, based in Angers and Quimper, and producing microbials for use in biocontrol and biostimulants applications, has just announced that it has […]

Valent BioSciences Corporation (VBC) and Biomar Microbial Technologies have announced the signing of a commercialization agreement under which the two companies will collaborate on the […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) announced it has secured a license of certain intellectual property rights from Kao Corporation for a plant health active ingredient. […]