Welcome to Innosil
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Innosil is a small spin-off company from Poland which have been established in 2011 by Poznan Science and Technology Park (PSTP) of Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation in order to become an entity responsible for commercialization of technologies developed by scientists at PSTP. Reactivation of the company in 2017 together with changing the company structure as well as signing the exclusive license agreement with the PSTP for the use of patented ILAGRO technology (plant protection method through plant resistance induction) is a new beginning for the Innosil.
Why plant resistance inducers?Availability of ILAGRO plant resistance inducer will fulfill the gap of safe, environmental friendly and sustainable crop protection agents and is in line with new trends in market and EU regulation which main objectives are: (i) usage, where appropriate, resistant/tolerant cultivars; (ii) sustainable biological, physical and other non-chemical methods must be preferred; (iii) the applied pesticides shall be as specific as possible, (iv) have the least side effects on human health, non-target organisms and the environment, (v) the professional user should keep the use of pesticides and other forms of intervention to levels that are necessary. Also, European Academies Science Advisory Council recommendations from 2014 (report #24 on ”Risks to plant health”) clearly suggest that there is need for “Developing new, durable control approaches to overcome current limitations of pesticides and responding to challenges introduced by EU pesticide product legislation that reduces the number of approved chemical control options” through for example „plant pest and disease resistance”. All of that above proves the need and defines the recent trends in agriculture in which ILAGRO product situates itself very well.
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The active substance BTHWA in ILAGRO product is a molecule discovered during research performed in years 2013-2014. Results of studies on BTHWA have shown that in provocative conditions tested compound can act as a strong plants resistance inducer.
Unique ApproachIn line with end-customers and professional users expectations regarding food production we present an innovative and revolutionary approach to plant protection, which will allows to substitute currently used (in excessive way) fungicides and other pesticides, for much more environmentally friendly solution (at extremely low dosages) which through its action will not influence the ecosystem but only allow the plants to become more resistant to infections by pathogens. Moreover, development of ILAGRO is in accordance with the sustainable and intelligent growth which are the goal of Europe 2020 strategy.
The possible future utilization of our ILAGRO product in plant protection will drastically reduce use of common pesticides, and thus substantial decrease in the hazards related to the use of those harmful chemicals on humans and environment. It is important to note that the SAR inducers only stimulate the resistance in plants. The results of the preliminary tests indicate ILAGRO has high application potential of developed due to its suspected wide application range against bacteria, virus and fungi, unseen among currently used plant protection products, thus supporting development of innovative, green and sustainable approaches in agriculture. Moreover, as shown in our tests ILAGRO is biodegradable and nontoxic and the dose required to be put on the crops is much lower (as low as 8-10g/ha) than common pesticides (1000-2000 g/ha). Using of this product has significant advantages for both farmers (reduced production costs by up to 50%, safer job conditions – limited exposure of the operator to the toxic pesticides, easy adoption of solution to current PPP application methods) and consumers (lower content of hazardous and toxic chemicals in foods). |
Further stages and activities needed to commercialize innovation
The work will be organized starting from efforts in the design and optimization of synthesis method of BTHWA, including scale-up, from commercially available starting materials. Next, the attempts will be made to prepare prototype formulations of targeted substance (formulations – concentrates of the active ingredient mixed with additives used for e.g. increasing bioavailability and solubility). In subsequent step all possible tests on plants are planned to be performed, including greenhouse and field tests on various economically important plants (e.g. corn, barley, potatoes, tomato, cucumber, pepper, zucchini, rapeseed, strawberry, apple trees, rhododendron, tulip, ash, papaya, tamarillo) exposed to their most harmful naturally occurring pathogens (viruses, bacteria and fungi). This will allow to determine (i) the plant-pathogen scope of effectiveness, (ii) the longevity of the SAR induction effect after single or multiple applications, (iii) plant specific application requirements (dosage, frequency, mean of application) tested in provocative or natural conditions in greenhouse and field tests. Moreover, in parallel to plants tests, the investigation of the distribution and persistence of the active substance in plants will be determined. Such experiments are curtail in establishing the grace period between the last application of the substance and harvesting, as some of envisioned applications of SAR inducers would be in cultivating vegetables that are ready-to-eat right after harvesting and where use of pesticides is strictly prohibited. Moreover tests will be performed to determine the potential ecotoxicity, biodegradability and bioaccumulation of new plant resistance inducer. Only having broad overview of the potential of our new ILagro product to many plants and environment footprint, it is possible to undergo the registration procedure for use on plants as plant protection product and commercialize the product.
