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These biopesticides from this Chilean biotech allow to combat harmful fungus Botrytis cinerea.

The fungicides, unlike natural biopesticides extracted from plants, are chemical compounds used commonly until now to control fungi that affect crops. Many of these compounds are synthetic organic substances with a wide range of toxicity and persistent in the environment.  Adding relevance to the scope and problematic of their use, it is applied annually in the world thousands of tons of fungicides to […]

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Recompose and diversify our bacterial flora to treat diseases: the benefits of probiotics.

Probiotics  contain microorganisms that naturally inhabit our body in terms of health and that allow us to develop a large part of our vital functions.  According to the Scientific ISAPP (International Association of probiotics and prebiotics) «a probiotic should be alive when delivered, survive the gastric environment, having spent a controlled assessment to document the benefits on the health of the host receiver, be […]

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Natural additives and their extracts: ¿how much can they improve the quality and the shelf life of chilled fresh meat?

Natural additives and their extracts have the ability to protect fresh meat from protein and lipid oxidation. They have antibacterial activities and can extend the shelf life of meat products. In fact, in response to the increasing consumers’ mistrust in synthetic additives, the meat industry is focused on searching sources of natural antioxidants, which is expected […]

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Have you heard about «in vitro cultured meat»? Discover how they can relieve the conventional ranching from its position.

Nowadays, meat’s demand is so great that in its consequence there have been strong ecological damages, such as deforestation or the increase of methane levels. We also can’t overlook animal abuse in the meat industries. All of this increase the motivation to find a strategy that cooperates to combat all these damages, but its name […]

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Biostimulants: all you need to know to become an expert.

Even if your closest experience with agriculture is your local grocery, is very likely that you have bumped with such fancy terms as «biostimulant» or «biofertilizer» along your daily roams around the web. It’s not surprise that this concepts are being the talk of the town: consumer’s tangible concern about the origin and quality of the […]

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Extending roots by fungal symbiotes: Symborg gives us the key.

Winds of change are blowing through the spanish agrotechnological landscape. The last decade has been marked as an entrepreneurship hotspot for fresh ideas as a way to find their own place in the sector. Those ideas are related to a biotechnological approach to the current century’s agricultural problems, such as desertification or the search of a […]

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