CGIAR/Alliance of Bioversity Int'l & CIAT and Boost Biomes announce a project to evaluate biological treatment for critical diseases of bananas

Boost Biomes harnesses the power of the microbiome. Microbiomes play critical roles in areas ranging from agriculture to human and animal health. Boost has a proprietary discovery platform to identify microbial products with import­ant commercial roles. This approach is faster and less expensive than traditional approaches and uniquely identifies multi-microbial products. Their first product targets agriculturally relevant microbiomes with the development safe and effective microbial products.