Our Solutions for Disease Control

Your Starting Point‍

The disease(s) you want your next product to target

What We Offer: Product co-development from lab to field

• The process starts by nominating candidates from our strain collection or yours that match your specifications, and screening these candidates through our validated in vitro and in planta assays.
• For top candidates, we study the MoA of the strain or metabolite present so we know what to optimize in fermentation development.
• We then optimize the fermentation and formulation scale-up process focusing on COGS and product attributes like shelf stability.
• We help partners advance to commercialization with field trial design support and material generation.

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Why Ginkgo‍

Our team of experts directly contributed to the development of industry-leading biological products, including Serenade(R) and Poncho Votivo 2.0(R). We understand the critical factors needed to launch transformative biological products.

Your Starting Point‍

Your disease control product or your lead candidates

What We Offer: Optimization approaches tailored to your manufacturing and regulatory constraints

• You tell us the technical and commercial targets you want to optimize for.
• From there, we embark on media optimization and/or strain optimization to achieve your targets.

Why Ginkgo‍

Our team uses (ultra) high throughput methods to optimize fermentation media and/or the strain’s genetics (using GM or non-GM approaches) to boost your product’s performance, quickly.

Your Starting Point‍

Your disease control product or your lead candidates

What We Offer: Process optimization and scale-up

• You tell us the target (e.g., spore count or biochemistry) that drives your product’s disease control activity as well as your manufacturing constraints.
• We start by evaluating hundreds of media combinations to find a starting point for further optimization.
• We test multiple media parameters like temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen in parallel to find the optimal process.
• We test the new media composition and process at scales up to 3000L in our pilot plant.

Why Ginkgo‍

Our team has deep expertise in fermentation and formulation for ag biological products. Test new processes from lab to pilot scale all under one roof.

Your Starting Point‍

A specific research question you need to answer to make a R&D investment decision

What We Offer: Screening and selection

• You tell us about the disease(s) and crop(s) that you want to test strains against.
• You provide samples of the candidates you want to test, or we test candidates in our own library.
• We evaluate candidates in our validated assays and share a pre-defined data package of our results.

Why Ginkgo‍

We’ve developed and validated in vitro and in planta assays across a broad spectrum of diseases and crops. Rigorous science drives better biological products.