In the agricultural industry, research concerning the discovery of alternatives to synthetic pesticides has been growing significantly over the past two decades. By examining the natural products that bioactive soil microbes produce, our team envisions discovering new bio pesticides that already exist in the environment. The layer chromatography direct biotagraphy or TLCDB has primarily been used to determine the bioactivity of plant extracts against pathogenic bacteria and fungi.
In this video, bacterial extracts are assayed without the need to induce spoilation of the pathogen, which allows for the examination of a wider range of pathogens. TLCBD will continue to be one of the tools that we use to focus on the discovery of novel natural products For biocontrol, this will benefit the agriculture and AgriFood sectors and help mitigate the resistance that pathogens have been developing to commercial pesticides.
