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FMC Will Develop Plant-Based Fungicide

by Michael McCoy
February 13, 2012 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 90, Issue 7

FMC has signed an agreement for exclusive access to blad, a new fungicidal ingredient developed by researchers from the School of Agronomy at Portugal’s Technical University of Lisbon. FMC’s deal is with Consumo em Verde, a company formed in 2006 by three university professors to commercialize the fungicide, a polypeptide found in Lupinus plants. CEV is building a blad production facility in central Portugal that is due to open by the end of the year.

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