After the news toward the end of the last year indicating AgBiome was facing challenges to its business, announcements continue as the AgBiome product portfolio finds new homes.
AgBiome May Layoff All Employees, Seeks To Continue To Market Its Crop Protection Products
In March, Certis Biologicals acquired Howler and Theia fungicides.
Certis Biologicals Acquires Two New Fungicides From AgBiome
Just last week, Gingko Bioworks announced its acquisition of platform assets from AgBioime, which includes over 115,000 fully sequenced and isolated strains, over 500 million unique gene sequences, and relevant functional data and metadata. Gingko’s acquisition also includes AgBiome’s development pipeline.
“We are so excited to bring AgBiome’s incredible strain and metagenomic collection into Ginkgo,” says Michael Miille, Ginkgo Fellow. “This is a world class asset that will significantly expand our capabilities and can directly benefit Ginkgo’s customers in the ag biologicals space. In addition to the platform assets and capabilities, the product concepts pipeline that has been validated by AgBiome to date provides an exciting opportunity to give customers a head-start in their product development efforts.”
Laura Potter, AgBiome chief science officer says, “These assets represent a massive, ground-breaking investment into exploring and characterizing microbial diversity for human benefit, and we can’t think of a better home for them than the Ginkgo platform.”
