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A protected and registered (Americas) jasmonate seed treatment to protect crops against pests, benefiting a wide range of crops with un-optimized trials on wheat
About
The technology is a protected and registered (Americas) jasmonate seed treatment to protect crops against pests by priming the jasmonate plant defense response pathway. It was developed by a research team mostly at Lancaster University, patented in 2006 and licensed through Plant Bioscience Ltd to Becker Underwood Inc (sold as HP Vault including a bacterial inoculant) and through to two buyouts transferred to BASF and then Nufarm as a commercial seed treatment combined with a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens inoculant, to protect corn, cotton and soybean against nematodes in a product called Trunemco. As explained in the Application section below the technology once optimized should be effective for a wide range of crops including wheat and possibly cocoa. We fully appreciate that use of this technology on crops of interest to you would require agreement with Nufarm and possibly BASF also. We are happy to make the necessary introductions through Plant Bioscience Ltd should you be interested in trialing this technology and subsequently obtaining any further necessary in country pesticide / bio-pesticide approvals. We understand that further more recent patents around the technology were filed by BASF, although BASF and Nufarm will be able to provide better information on these than ourselves, since we are only the original developers of the technology.
Key Benefits
• The treatment uses a naturally produced molecule to prime a normal plant defence pathway to provide long lasting protection well after the initial treatment has naturally degraded. • Treating seed rather than spraying crops greatly reduces the amount of jasmonates that need to be used thus reducing environmental impact and costs of the technology. • Priming the plant defense response to respond more rapidly to pest or disease attack, rather than permanently switching on the defense response avoids reduced crop yields. • The technology is commercially available in the Americas and protected by patents that were granted in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States, with the Trunemco product incorporating the technology, having been registered in the USA (excluding California), Brazil and Canada that we are aware of.
Applications
Protection of crops against pests and fungal disease. The technology is currently marketed with a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens addition to protect corn, cotton and soybean against nematode attack. The technology has also been trialed in wheat by BASF, although not concentration optimized for this crop. It was also sold as HP Vault by Becker Underwood for protection of peanut, approved by the US EPA under the name Tariss for use on canola, mustard, safflowers and sunflowers and was originally developed for horticultural crops including tomato, sweet pepper and cucumber. Consequently, as the technology is effective in a broad range of crops, we believe it should be able to help with your pest and disease challenge for wheat and cocoa, provided the amount applied is optimized for each crop. Please note that protection against some fungal diseases was not included in the original patent as a further patent filing was initially planned. Therefore, the technology has only been marketed commercially for pest protection, although some protection against fungal diseases would also occur.