Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. announced the approval by Brazil?s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA- Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária) of three new bio-insecticidal/bio-nematicidal solutions derived from inactivated cells of the company?s proprietary Burkholderia platform. The approval represents a significant regulatory milestone in the Brazilian market, marking the first endorsement of biological products formulated from fully inactivated microorganisms. Bioceres?

most advanced bio-control solutions leverage the metabolites of inactivated microorganisms, resulting in products that demonstrate heightened effectiveness, precision, shelf-life, and formulation stability, as well as greater consistency in their mode of action compared to live microbes. Moreover, non-living bacteria-based products can be formulated with increased potency and at much lower costs, nearing cost parity to less favorable present-day chemical alternatives. Bioceres products based on Burkholderia-derived metabolites were first registered in the United States in 2014 and have since been commercialized in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Turkey, and parts of Africa.

In the United States alone, they are used as nematicidal and insecticidal seed treatment on more than 4 million hectares (>10 million acres) of corn, cotton and soybeans, effectively replacing abamectin in seed treatments, while also boosting the control of soil-dwelling insect pests that are typically controlled by neonicotinoids, pyrethroids, and organophosphates.