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 BioWorks,
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BioWorks, Inc. ("BioWorks"
or the "Company") is a supplier to the agriculture industry of
biological control ("biocontrol") products that enhance plant health,
plant productivity and consumer and worker safety. Utilizing
intellectual properties obtained under an exclusive licensing agreement
with Cornell Research Foundation ("CRF"), an affiliate of Cornell
University ("Cornell"), the Company currently develops, manufactures and
markets fungal based biocontrol products.
The Company’s Biocontrol business is based on the natural, non-chemical
control of yield reducing fungal plant root diseases using its patented
fungus, Trichoderma harzianum, strain T-22 (‘T-22’). T-22 based
products replace or significantly reduce the need for chemical
fungicides to control fungal root diseases. The Company’s flagship
products, RootShield®, PlantShield®, T-22™ Planter Box and TurfShield™,
are Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") registered and have quickly
gained market acceptance and brand name recognition.
These products contain spores from T-22 and are introduced into the soil
used for greenhouse plants and turf, or are placed directly onto the
seed during planting for agricultural row and field crops. There, the
beneficial microbes grow on the roots of the plant, feeding on
byproducts exuded by the roots as part of the plant's normal growing
process. Once the beneficial fungus has "colonized" the roots, it will
challenge and kill pathogenic fungi attempting to penetrate the roots
and feed upon them. This is accomplished through a variety of
mechanisms, including
physical contact and secretion of numerous enzymes (proteins), like
multiple forms of chitinase, which damages the invading fungal cell
wall.
BioWorks, Inc. is the successor company to TGT, Inc, formed in June of
1993 by the founders of BioWorks, and is incorporated under the laws of
the state of Delaware. The Company is located in Geneva, New York where
it rent space for offices, two manufacturing facilities and a research
facility under long-term lease agreements. |
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