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.
AI-driven platform engineering better crop varieties
Wild Bioscience is an agricultural biotechnology company developing next-generation crop varieties using a platform that combines evolutionary biology with machine learning. By mining genetic variation in wild plant relatives, the company identifies and designs gene edits targeting traits including nitrogen use…
AI and machine learning platform for agricultural and life sciences
Agxio is an AI and machine learning company developing automated platform solutions for the agricultural, life science, and biotech industries. Its platform suite enables researchers, farmers, and industry operators to design and deploy predictive models for applications including livestock health monitoring, crop…
Gene-edited crop traits for yield under climate stress
ALORA is an agricultural biotechnology company developing gene-edited crop traits that redirect plant energy from stress defence to yield. Using multiplex gene editing, the company targets regulatory pathways controlling how plants respond to heat, salinity, and drought, aiming to increase productivity across growing…
High-performance specialty ingredients for pharma, biotech and agriculture
Croda is a speciality chemicals company developing and manufacturing high-performance ingredients for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agricultural markets. Its life sciences portfolio encompasses lipid nanoparticle delivery systems, high-purity pharmaceutical excipients, vaccine adjuvant components, and crop…
Organelle engineering platform developing novel crop traits for agriculture
Cytotrait is a biotechnology company developing novel traits for food and agricultural crops. Its MOSS platform introduces genes and gene edits into plant organelles, including chloroplasts and mitochondria, enabling rapid homoplasmy across the plant. The approach aims to improve yield, resilience, disease resistance…
Carbon nanomaterial biostimulants enhancing photosynthesis
Glaia is an agricultural biotechnology company developing carbon-based nanomaterial biostimulants that enhance photosynthetic efficiency in food crops. Based on technology developed at the University of Bristol, its products are applied via foliar spray or irrigation and act at the cellular level to increase the…
Carbon nanodot delivery platform for RNA-based crop protection
CDotBio Limited is a biotech developing carbon nanodot technology to improve the delivery and stability of RNA-based biopesticides and other crop inputs. The platform uses ultra-small, sugar-derived nanoparticles to protect RNA cargo from degradation as it transits into plant cells, enabling species-specific targeting…
Sustainable biopesticides and plastic-free microencapsulation for crop and animal health
Eden Research is an AIM-listed developer and supplier of sustainable biopesticides and natural microencapsulation technology for the crop protection, animal health and consumer products industries. The company's encapsulation system, derived from yeast, delivers terpene-based active ingredients as a plastic-free…
Agri-tech sensors, machine learning and gene editing for fresh produce
B-Hive Innovations is an agri-tech research and development company that designs sensor systems, machine learning tools, and hardware solutions for the fresh produce industry. Working with farmers, packers, and supply chain partners, the company addresses challenges including non-destructive crop quality assessment,…
Microbial bioinsecticides developed through insect behavioural screening
BugBiome is an agricultural biotechnology company developing microbially derived pest control products as alternatives to synthetic pesticides. The company uses high-throughput behavioural screening to identify naturally occurring microbes that deter feeding, inhibit egg-laying or are directly toxic to crop pests. Its…