If we use a fungus as a beneficial biological seed treatment, how can it coexist and thrive when used in combination with other seed-applied fungicides? A fungicide should kill a fungus, right? Trichoderma is a soil-borne fungus and occurs naturally all over the world. As of 2015, at least 250 species had been identified…
Molly Cadle-Davidson, Chief Science Officer, ABM The study of the phytobiome with respect to biologicals is natural – it makes perfect sense. Since about 2000, ABM and a growing number of companies have been studying the microbiome. The phytobiome is the plant equivalent of the human microbiome. It includes the plant itself, the plant’s…
Molly Cadle-Davidson, Chief Science Officer, ABM1st The world is constantly changing, and these changes are not favorable to agriculture. We have a shrinking land base on which crops can be grown due to urbanization. As you’ve heard many times, we have an increasing population, which means more food is needed. And, we also have…
Advanced Biological Marketing (ABM) announced today that the research and development department of ABM has filed a patent on Focused Microbial Diversity™. Focused Microbial Diversity (FMD) is the technique employed by ABM to research and develop microbials that will be used in ABM products. “The Focused Microbial Diversity “platform” allows ABM to screen a wide…
May 20, 2014 Van Wert, OH, USA and Enkhuizen, The Netherlands Advanced Biological Marketing, Inc, (ABM) based in Van Wert, Ohio, USA and INCOTEC Group B.V. (INCOTEC), based in Enkhuizen, The Netherlands today announce that they have come to an agreement in which INCOTEC will combine ABM’s yield enhancing inoculants with INCOTEC’s innovative seed…