Biologicals by Design™
Our Biologicals by Design™ platform dramatically increases the speed and accuracy of producing novel biological products, ensuring growers have access to effective, reliable and easy-to-use biological crop protection that protects their yields and provide them with clear ROI.
The challenge of protecting crops
The process of discovering traditional crop protection chemicals has changed little in the last 50 years. Large companies continue to spend billions yearly on R&D but each decade, fewer new active ingredients are registered, while older products continue to be banned.1 It is a lengthy and expensive process to develop products that effectively control pests and disease. While these products help feed billions, they often have unintended consequences including damaging beneficial insect populations, leaving residues in produce and the environment, and presenting risks to worker safety.
At the same time, growers have few other options. While biological products have been increasingly adopted over the last 20 years, many growers are concerned that they provide inconsistent or unreliable control in the field2, are more costly and inconvenient or impractical to use.
A new era of designer biologicals
At Invaio, we’re committed to delivering next-generation biological crop protection solutions that growers can use as “drop-in” replacements for chemicals. These solutions will not only be much more environmentally friendly, they’ll also be more reliable in the field and convenient for farmers to use.
Our Biologicals by Design™ platform combines state-of-the-art technology together with diverse insights and experience of our expert scientists. They harness the power of tools including generative AI (GenAI), deep machine learning, structure-guided design, and genome mining to produce novel biologicals. We can both design new biologicals or, for example, take a peptide that exists in nature and enhance its performance across a range of attributes including efficacy, safety and manufacturability.
Our Invaio Biologicals by Design™ platform will bring many benefits:
‘Drop in’ replacements for chemistry
Designer bioactives with new modes of action that are highly effective against a pest or disease. Wrapped in our proprietary delivery systems, they’ll provide ease of use and long-lasting, reliable control that’s cost-effective for farmers.
Lasting control that biodegrades
Not only will our designer bioactives provide reliable crop protection for farmers, they’ll also biodegrade naturally in the environment once they’ve done their job.
Biologicals by Design™, not by luck
We design bioactives with a range of benefits right from the beginning. We can fine-tune them for efficacy, manufacturability, and, importantly, their environmental and safety profile.
Smart design, low cost
Our design platform is enabled by generative-AI, machine learning and a range of design tools, making it much faster to pinpoint bioactive compounds at a fraction of the cost of traditional chemical discovery.
A pipeline of promising candidates
We’re working on solutions across row crops, fruit and vegetables as well as tree crops. Pests and diseases already in scope include caterpillars and fungal diseases in fruit and veg, chewing pests and fungal diseases in corn and wheat, as well as citrus greening and sucking insects in citrus.
The future of biologicals by design is here today. Invaio’s biological design platform is set to make a range of effective, reliable, more environmentally friendly biological replacements for chemistry a reality for growers.
1 Phillips McDougall, Evolution of the Crop Protection Industry since 1960
2 Biologicals in 2024: Some Headway, But Headwinds Remain - CropLife