Root Applied Sciences’s airborne pathogen monitoring system helps growers reduce pesticide applications by 70% through precision pathogen management. Alerts of airborne pathogens while still in the air allow growers to spray pesticides only when they need to instead of prophylactically. Root has validated the market and demonstrated the value of the technology using in-field pilots with Root’s minimum viable product, a twice-weekly collect-and-send approach, while the fully automated, in-field DNA-based analysis is completed. Root’s per-season grapevine powdery mildew subscription service (average $8,000 per customer) allows growers to reduce their fungicide applications and know when and where to look for infection. Root is able to warn customers of airborne powdery mildew 10 days or more before they see the pathogen using traditional scouting methods. Root’s IP covers the ability to do a fully automated, DNA-based analysis that is stable over time in the field despite fluctuating environmental conditions and dust.
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