Pheronym®

Pheronym is honored to be selected to enter The Bio Startup Draft 2019.

Thank you SynBioBeta draft committee.

Our founders are preparing NASA safety documents for the AstroNematode project. More information about AstroNematode project, visit the www. astronematode.com or follow AstroNematode on social media.

Dr. Fatma Kaplan, CEO and Project director

Mr. Karl Cameron Schiller, COO and Project scientist

Pheronym updated the logo.  Here are some of our updated logos.

We are honored to be among the 3 companies that are on

the Spotlight at Farm-To-Fork live event organized by Valley Vision and Agstart  August 22, 2019, Woodland, CA.

If you missed it, you have a second chance. Here is the video.

Future of Agriculture Podcast Host Tim Hammerich interviewed Dr. Ray Wheeler who is a NASA’s Plant Physiologist and the lead for Advanced Life Support Research activities in the Exploration Research and Technology Program at Kennedy Space Center.

Listen to Future of Agriculture, interview with Dr. Wheeler “Farming in Space“.
Here are some of Dr. Wheeler’s research which he talks about in this podcast.

You can also listen to the podcast at PlayerFM, Applepodcasts

• • • • The research he’s conducted that has made it in today’s agriculture industry.
      • How NASA helped in terrestrial applications of space farming.
      • His recent projects that could be applied commercially in the future.
      • Solving the ever-increasing CO2 emissions with space farming tech.
      • Recent progress on the experimental planting chambers in space.
      • Deciding which crops show promise for space production.
      • The water content of Mars and the prospect of someday growing food there.
      • The critical benefits of being able to grow plants in space.
      • Recovering as much water as possible in space.
      • The effects of low gravity environments on plant growth.
      • His advice for people interested in space farming technology.

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We are very excited to move forward with safety requirements to send Astronematode to ISS NL. Here are some of the samples we are preparing for safety tests.

By Sandra Avant, July 25, 2019

A recent Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study, published in The Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, shows that beneficial nematodes (also called entomopathogenic nematodes) treated with pheromone extracts are more effective at killing an economically important insect—the pecan weevil—as well as the black soldier fly.

The pecan weevil is a major pecan pest in the Southeast as well as in Texas and Oklahoma, said David Shapiro-Ilan, an entomologist at the ARS Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory in Byron, Georgia.  If left uncontrolled, it can reduce crop production up to 70 percent.

An advantage of using beneficial nematodes is that they are safe for humans and the environment and target only specific insects, Shapiro-Ilan said.

In earlier research, Shapiro-Ilan and his colleagues discovered that pheromones produced by beneficial nematodes direct their behavior—telling them to disperse or infect insects. With that in mind, they sought ways to use pheromones to enhance nematodes’ behavior to kill more insect pests.

Since then, ARS has established a cooperative research agreement with Pheronym, an ag-biotech pest control company that develops and produces nematode pheromones that can be used to direct beneficial nematode behavior. Keep Reading

It is also featured at:

Phys.org

FarmTable.com

Parallel State Science and Technology

UF INNOVATE

AgNews

Honored to be invited by the students of the UC Davis Department of Plant Pathology to Industry seminar series on Wednesday, May 29, 2019.

Come and talk to me tomorrow at 4 PM.

Thank you, Mr. Matt Ward and disruptors fm, for this wonderful podcast where we can talk about our product, nematode pheromones, for sustainable eco-friendly pest control. To listen to the podcast, click on the picture below.