Written by Charlotte Cunningham
Crop protection discovery company, MoA Technology Ltd, has secured over £6m of funding to develop its unique crop protection discovery platforms in a bid to avert the global herbicide resistance crisis. Charlotte Cunningham reports. It’s no secret that the overuse of a range of herbicides has led to increasing levels of weed resistance. The weeds are winning, and the the industry is in need of a new range of clean and effective herbicide options to work alongside cultural controls. Spun out from Oxford University’s Plant Sciences Department in 2018, MoA Technology was set up to address this challenge. The company has developed its own discovery platform and is focused on the discovery of next generation sustainable herbicides with new modes of action from both natural and synthetic chemistry. MoA Technology has developed three proprietary platforms: MoA Galaxy, MoA Target and MoA Select. Each platform is powerful in its own right, but when used in combination, offer the opportunity to revolutionise the herbicide discovery process and critically identify new, effective and environmentally-sustainable herbicides. The platforms are based upon a unique combination of genetics, trait analysis and data analytics. Extremely promising The funding round into MoA was co-led by Oxford Sciences Innovation,…
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