Source: Elizabeth Witherspoon, WRAL TECHWIRE, 11/25/19


The stakes have gotten higher in the $50-billion-plus global crop protection industry. Growers and consumers want insecticides that only harm the bad bugs – not the beneficials, like bees, nor the workers, the environment or the food supply. Vestaron, a startup that recently moved its corporate headquarters to Research Triangle Park from Kalamazoo, Mich., believes it has the answer to these and other industry challenges. Rather than developing another synthetic insecticide – a lengthy, risky and expensive process – it is moving to commercialize the use of peptide-based bioinsecticides.

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