Organisms cluster beneath a field’s surface by the billion. What are they up to down there in the dirt? Which ones help crops grow – and which ones kill them? Frankly, we only have a tiny fraction of a clue. But crop scientists are getting more confident that a more usable knowledge base of these …
As immigrants from developing countries, Payam Pourtaheri (who is from Iran) and Ameer Shakeel (from Pakistan) had seen how synthetic pesticide use and misuse contaminated the environment. As students at the University of Virginia, they founded AgroSpheres to make bio-based crop protection that could replace those chemicals. Their proprietary bioprocessing and manufacturing AgriCell platform, for …
