MiCRop PhD candidate Roland Berdaguer has received a Faculty of Impact grant for a project entitled Microbes fighting crop pests for sustainable farming.

With this grant Roland is going to develop a finding of the University of Amsterdam into a product of a new spin-off company, called MicroBioLogicals.

Agriculture is crucial for providing food to a growing world population but faces large challenges. There is growing evidence that many of these challenges can be overcome with microbes. Here we propose to create a start-up company, MicroBioLogicals, that will develop a product, based on microbes, to control potato cyst nematodes. These nematodes are currently causing big losses in potato yield. This product will allow farmers to fight this pest in a more environmentally friendly way. After this first product, MicroBioLogicals is going to develop more products, based on microbes, to make agriculture more sustainable.

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