Syngenta and Lavie Bio Announce Partnership to Discover and Develop Novel Bio-Insecticide

Insects pose a major challenge to the health of crops worldwide, directly injuring plants as they feed on the plant's stems, fruit and roots, as well as indirectly by transmitting bacterial, viral and fungal infections to crops - costing the global economy an estimated $70 billion a year, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization[1]. Experts predict such losses will worsen with global warming widening the spread of invasive insect risk and rising resistance to available insecticides. "Syngenta ...