Finding crop protection products that have the efficacy of traditional chemicals with the environmental footprint of a fully natural solution is no easy task.
In recent years, peptides and micropeptides have emerged as promising options for achieving this.
"Micropeptides have a unique value proposition, combining new modes of actions, strong efficacy in the field, great safety profile, and affordable costs for farmers," explains Thomas Laurent, co-founder and CEO of biotech startup Micropep, who caught up with AgFunderNews at the recent World AgriTech show in the UK.
Fresh off a funding round, Micropep, which has operations in France and the US, is now working to bring its crop protection products based on micropeptides to market, and has also just introduced a discovery platform to make the process of finding and developing solutions more efficient.
Read more at Ag Funder News.