B-COS we care about resilient plant protection
B-COS our products are tailor-made
B-COS is a to-be-incorporated spin-off of Ghent University, offering COS-products that have the potential to replace hazardous chemical pesticides. COS-molecules are nature-inspired products which boost the plant’s defense system in a specific, sustainable and cost-effective way.
Our Approach
Microbes as
efficient cell factories
Tapping into evolution
by creating a targeted plant
vaccine
Sufficient and safe
food for all
Scalable, robust and patented
production platform of defined
chitooligosaccharides.
In-house and tailor-made
seed coating solutions for
targeted diseases and crops
Combatting pesticide resistance
by drastically decreasing the need
for and intense use of fossil-
based pesticides
B-COS we improve pathogen tolerance:
We identified and produced very specific COS-structures to be used as alternative biological elicitors. Several proof of concepts were obtained.
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