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Advanced microbial solutions

Next-generation
plant protection

We empower crop producers with proven biological technologies and products.
Biocontrol   /   Breeding   /   Risk & sustainability
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From microbial science to crop performance.
What we do

Our services

Biological solutions shaped around your production challenges.

Next-generation biocontrol

We provide highly effective biological solutions for your production systems


Target groups: Horticultural, arable, orchard and forestry growers, advisors, propagators and ag biotech

Solutions: Tailor-made and broad-spectrum biologicals, and microbe-enhanced seeds or vegetative material

Approach: Proprietary in-house technologies (proven assessment, selection and application systems) combined with collaborations with innovative plant breeders, propagators, biologicals manufacturers, and research institutes.

Microbiome-assisted resistance breeding

We integrate functional microbiome attributes in your breeding pipeline to substantially improve phenotype predictions


Target group: Plant breeders

Solutions: Microbial genetic markers, microbiome-assisted screening assays and derived selection schemes, microbial seed technologies

Approach: Heritable, plant-associated microbiome features provide the missing link between agronomic phenotypes (e.g. disease resistance) and low-informative crop traits (e.g. disease score) and QTLs/prediction models.

Such holobiont-based genetic analyses and derived markers advance high-throughput screens, improve GxE predictions, and allow to identify promising seed inocula that elicit desired plant phenotypes.

Risk & Sustainability assessments

We evaluate the effect of your agricultural inputs on plant & soil microbiomes to optimise SOPs


Target groups: Farmers, advisors and ag biotech

Solution: Optimised chemical and biological inputs

Approach: Proprietary microbiome analyses and competent expert advice to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of external inputs (e.g. pesticides and fertilisers) on crop performance, environment and health.

Innovative SME

BioCrop Innovations SL

CIF: B44795466   ·   Validity: 14/07/2026 – 13/07/2029
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Proven in practice

Achievements

BonaPlanta has successfully established biological solutions for various crop types addressing a wide range of production challenges using selected microbes and other biologicals for biofertilisation, biostimulation and biocontrol.

Trichoderma culture used in biological crop solutions

21

Protected or resistant horticultural, arable, orchard & forestry crops

36

Microbial key taxa successfully employed

25

Production challenges solved

+27%

Yield gain on average

+34%

Increased profitability on average
The people behind the science

Our core team

Pierre Hohmann

Pierre Hohmann

Founder

Experienced R&D manager providing innovative solutions for the agrifood sector with a focus on plant-microb(iom)e interactions, phytopathology, plant breeding and biotechnology.

Ifigenia Urbina

Ifigenia Urbina B, PhD

Head of R&D

Plant, Soil & Ecology Scientist translating microbial research into innovative solutions for sustainable and resilient agriculture.

Working together

BonaPlanta’s network

KWS
AprilAsia
FiBL
ETH
NordicSeed
INRAE
Blomitec
AIT
INOQ
Oxford
EPSO
GZPK
WUR
Mars
CSIC
CRAG
AgroecolScience
CYBIOME
BETA
BPRC
IRTA
Aprisco
BiomeMakers
NIOO
GenomeQuebec
    Let’s talk

    Put microbial science
    to work for your crops.

    Get in touch to discuss your production challenges, or request a demonstration of our approaches.