Crop protection companies develop products and technologies that protect agricultural plants from pests, pathogens, weeds and environmental pressures. Their work supports crop health, agricultural productivity and more targeted approaches to pest and disease management.
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Browse 30 UK crop protection companies below.
Global crop protection, seed and digital agriculture solutions provider
Corteva Agriscience UK is the British operating subsidiary of Corteva, Inc., a global agriculture company formed from the DuPont Pioneer, Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Crop Protection businesses. The company supplies Pioneer and Brevant seed varieties, crop protection products including herbicides, insecticides and…
Pheromone formulations and entomology research for pest monitoring
International Pheromone Systems develops and manufactures insect pheromone lures, trapping products and semiochemical formulations for pest monitoring and control. Its research activities include species-specific lure development, insect behavioural studies and analytical testing. The company's Pest Research Hub…
Gene editing platform for disease-resistant, climate-resilient tropical crops
Tropic Biosciences is an agricultural biotechnology company developing gene-edited varieties of tropical crops, including banana, coffee, and rice, with a focus on disease resistance, climate resilience, and yield improvement. Its proprietary platform combines gene editing with RNA interference to redirect a plant's…
Microbiome platform optimising hydroponic crop performance
Concert Bio is an agricultural biotechnology company developing microbial products to optimise crop performance in hydroponic greenhouses. Its platform combines the world's largest hydroponic microbiome database with machine learning to identify beneficial microbes tailored for soilless growing systems. The company's…
Biopesticides, insect lures and smart traps for sustainable pest management
Razbio is a Welsh biotech company developing sustainable pest management solutions for agriculture and public health. Its product portfolio spans fungal biopesticides, AI-identified insect lures and repellents, and automated AI-equipped smart traps for field pest monitoring. Validated products include a lure for…
Biological crop protection and pollination supplies for growers
Biobest UK supplies biological crop protection and pollination products to commercial growers. Its portfolio includes bumblebee hives for crop pollination, beneficial insects, predatory mites and nematodes for pest management, alongside biopesticides and crop monitoring tools. The business provides technical guidance…
Non-clinical safety testing CRO for pharma, chemical and agrochemical sectors
Sequani is a contract research organisation specialising in non-clinical safety testing for pharmaceutical, chemical and agrochemical clients from a purpose-built GLP-compliant facility. Its services span general and genetic toxicology in rodent and non-rodent species, reproductive and developmental toxicology,…
Biological sensors that detect early crop stress signals
Viridys Bio is a synthetic biology company developing non-GMO biosensors that detect volatile organic compounds released by stressed plants. The sensors give a visual colour change alert before pest or disease symptoms become visible, allowing growers to intervene earlier and more precisely. Designed to require no…
Genetically engineered insects for sustainable pest and disease vector control
Flyttr is an Oxfordshire-based biotechnology company developing biological solutions for sustainable pest management. Its core technology uses genetically engineered insects carrying a self-limiting gene to suppress populations of disease-transmitting and crop-damaging pests without chemicals or harm to non-target…
Biological nitrogen fixation technology for sustainable crop production
Azotic Technologies is an agricultural biotechnology company developing and commercialising microbial biological inputs for crop nutrition. Using a patented strain of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, which colonises plant cells to fix atmospheric nitrogen systemically across foliage and…
Peptide biopesticides for precision pest control in agriculture
SOLASTA Bio is a biotechnology company developing nature-inspired peptide insect control agents as sustainable alternatives to synthetic chemical pesticides. Its discovery platform identifies and optimises neuropeptide-based compounds that selectively target pest insects via a novel mode of action, while remaining…
Global crop protection and seeds R&D and manufacturing hub
Syngenta is an agricultural science company developing crop protection products and seeds for farmers worldwide. Its UK operations include Jealott's Hill, the company's largest crop protection research centre globally, employing over 1,000 people in discovery chemistry, formulation science and seeds research. Syngenta…
Preclinical CRO for pharmaceutical and agrochemical drug development
Labcorp Early Development Laboratories is a major nonclinical contract research organisation operating from its Harrogate campus in North Yorkshire. The facility provides preclinical pharmaceutical development services including safety pharmacology, toxicology, pathology, bioanalytical testing, and drug metabolism and…
Novel mode-of-action herbicide discovery platform
Moa Technology discovers synthetic and biological herbicides with novel modes of action to address herbicide resistance. Its high-throughput platform uses miniaturised living plants, high-content microscopy and AI to identify new compounds. The company has screened more than 900,000 compounds and identified over 80…
International centre of excellence in plant science and microbiology
The John Innes Centre is a research institute conducting fundamental, strategic and applied research in plant science and microbiology. The centre studies plant and microbial genetics, genomics and cell biology, applying techniques including CRISPR gene editing to improve crop resilience and food security. It trains…
Biological crop protection and pheromone-based pest management
Crop IQ Technology is an agricultural biotechnology company developing biological crop protection and plant health products. Its portfolio includes pheromone and kairomone lures, mating-disruption systems, botanical repellents, biopesticides, biostimulants and biofertilisers. These technologies support integrated pest…
Culturing microbial dark matter to discover novel antimicrobials and bioactives
Bactobio is a biotechnology company using synthetic biology, next-generation sequencing, and machine learning to culture the vast majority of environmental microbes that have previously been unculturable. Access to this largely unexplored bioresource enables systematic discovery of novel antimicrobial compounds and…
Bacteriophage platform for targeted bacterial crop disease management
Greenleaf Bio is a biotech developing engineered bacteriophage-based crop protectants against bacterial plant pathogens. The platform combines synthetic biology, phage engineering, and machine learning to accelerate the discovery and development of species-specific, non-toxic biopesticides that offer an…
Gene editing platform restoring disease resistance in crop species
Resurrect Bio is a plant biotechnology company developing disease-resistant crops through a proprietary gene editing platform. Using computational biology and high-throughput plant screening, the company identifies and restores native resistance genes that have been suppressed by pathogens or lost through selective…
Microbial biopesticides and biological crop protection technologies
Bionema is an agricultural biotechnology company developing microbial and nematode-based products for biological crop protection and plant health. Its technology uses beneficial fungi, bacteria and nematodes, alongside specialised encapsulation and formulation systems, to control insect pests and improve the delivery…