Our expertise is in the discovery and development of plant-based compounds for crop protection and productivity. Our mission is to find breakthrough solutions of innovative compounds and bring them to the agriculture market. Our unique position The company has developed a new technology platform for screening, development and understanding of plant metabolites for crop protection. The Company is a
n initiative by few leaders in plant metabolites exploitation. The Company collaborates with Yeda, the Commercial Arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) (www.weizmann.ac.il), the lab of Prof. Asaph Aharoni, head of Plant Metabolic engineering and a world leader in plant science. The market need: Over $55 Billions are spent each year in crop protection
The conventional chemistry based compounds are facing drastic drop in innovation, increased regulatory pressure and prohibitive cost of development. As a result, new ag-chem compounds introduction dropped to merely 5 compounds/year in the last decade vs. 14 in the previous decade
Bio-based pesticides are recognized as one of the future solutions. They can have shorter TTM, lower development cost and healthier environmental profile. While the total market CAGR is 4%, the bio-based solutions are expected to have CAGR in the range of 15-20%. Within bio-based solutions, those of plant metabolites origin are the most promising.
