Pheronym, a 2020 Ray of Hope Prize Finalist Receives $25,000 AgTech Grant

Pheronym, a finalist in the 2020 Ray of Hope Prize competition just received a $25,000 Agtech grant to help them reach commercialization milestones.

Pheronym is a pre-commercial agtech company, and they will use the funds to continue commercialization work which the COVID-19 health crisis had forced them to postpone.

Agtech is broadly defined as the application of technology — especially advanced biologics, software and hardware — to agriculture.

Pheronym is a pioneer in the use of nematode pheromones to control both beneficial and plant-parasitic nematodes, or microscopic roundworms, that can dramatically affect plant health. The $25,000 grant allows Pheronym to hire a technician to help prepare for the re-start of field trials for their first product as well as to start laboratory and greenhouse testing on a second line of new pheromone-based products.

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