AgBiome gets new CFO, secures patent protection for new microbiome crop product

In North Carolina, AgBiome, a developer of products from the Earth’s microbial communities, received a patent directed toward the Connate product line granted in the United States, which harnesses the power of the plant microbiome to create biologicals crop protection. AgBiome also has a new CFO, Gerald Coward, who was the former CFO at the Fresh Food Group and Driscoll’s of the Americas.

gBiome®, a leader in developing innovative products from the Earth’s microbial communities, announced Gerald Coward has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer. Gerald will lead the finance team from the company’s headquarters in Research Triangle Park, NC, effective immediately.

“Microbiomes hold the solutions to many problems facing agriculture and food production. AgBiome has addressed these issues by assembling an extensive, continuously growing microbial collection, data science infrastructure, and screening platform, GENESIS™, from which we discover and develop our innovative crop protection biological products,” Eric Ward, co-founder of AgBiome said. “This most recent patent toward the Connate product line reinforces AgBiome’s focus on harnessing the power of the plant microbiome to create new, efficacious products,” added Ward.

AgBiome’s patent estate provides protection throughout the depth of the AgBiome crop protection R&D pipeline. As the pipeline identifies novel bacterial strains that possess fungicidal, insecticidal, and/or nematicidal activity, AgBiome continues to file patent applications to protect these valuable assets. To date, AgBiome has 264 pending U.S. and international patent applications, with 28 issued or granted US or foreign patents.