Biology as a Solution

Biology as a Solution is a French agri-tech company headquartered in Martillac, in the Bordeaux region. It develops diagnostic tools for agriculture, with a focus on early detection of pathogen spores and quantification of resistance to plant-protection products. Its stated mission, expressed in its own tagline, is to help growers "treat better in order to treat less" (Traiter mieux pour traiter moins). The company's core offering is built around spore traps and collection kits that growers place in their fields or vineyards. The samples are returned to the company's laboratory, where DNA is extracted and analysed. The results are designed to answer three practical questions for growers: what to treat with, when to treat, and where to treat. This approach is positioned as a way to give winegrowers and other farmers advance warning before disease symptoms appear. Biology as a Solution is particularly active in viticulture, where it addresses major fungal diseases of the vine including downy mildew (mildiou), powdery mildew (oïdium), black rot and botrytis. Its resistance-quantification service assesses the proportion of resistant variants in mildew and powdery mildew populations on a specific holding, covering resistance to product families such as SDHI, triazoles, benzamides, CAA, QiI, QoI and QioI. The company states that its solutions are compatible with both organic and conventional viticulture. Beyond vineyards, the company says its solutions are compatible with all types of crops, including field crops (grandes cultures), arboriculture and market gardening (maraîchage). It also offers a mobile application intended to give users an advantage in the fight against downy mildew. The company is a small, privately held French business. Public information about its ownership, founding date and management is limited; its Wikidata entry identifies it simply as a company in Martillac, France. Its commercial identity is closely tied to its website domain, baas.bio, and to the contact address contact@baas.bio.

Biology as a Solution is a French company based in Martillac, in the Bordeaux wine-growing region. Publicly available information about its founding and early history is limited; its Wikidata entry describes it simply as a company in Martillac, France. The company built its business around a diagnostic approach to crop protection. Rather than relying solely on calendar-based or visual disease assessment, it developed spore traps and collection kits that growers place in their plots. Samples are sent to the company's laboratory, where DNA is extracted and analysed. The results are intended to tell growers what to treat with, when to treat, and where to treat. Its early commercial focus has been viticulture, where fungal diseases such as downy mildew (mildiou), powdery mildew (oïdium), black rot and botrytis are major concerns. The company offers early spore detection to give winegrowers advance warning before symptoms appear, and a resistance-quantification service that assesses the number of variants resistant to different plant-protection products in the mildew and powdery mildew populations infecting a specific holding. The resistance service covers product families including SDHI, triazoles, benzamides, CAA, QiI, QoI and QioI. The company states that its approaches are compatible with both organic and conventional viticulture, and that its solutions can be used across other crop types including field crops, arboriculture and market gardening. It has also promoted a mobile application designed to give users an advantage in the fight against downy mildew. As of the available evidence, Biology as a Solution remains a small, privately held French agri-tech business. Detailed corporate information such as founding year, founders, ownership structure and management team is not present in the supplied sources.

Agri-tech diagnostics provider helping growers treat better and less through early spore detection and resistance quantification, with a strong focus on viticulture and compatibility with both organic and conventional farming.

• Spore traps

  Traps placed in plots to detect pathogen spores before symptoms appear, giving growers advance warning.

• Collection kits

  Kits used by growers to collect samples in their plots and return them to the company's laboratory.

• Resistance quantification service

  Laboratory analysis assessing the number of resistant variants in mildew and powdery mildew populations on a specific holding, covering SDHI, triazoles, benzamides, CAA, QiI, QoI and QioI.

• Mobile application for downy mildew

  An application intended to give users an advantage in the fight against downy mildew.

1. 1Biology as a Solution – Traiter mieux pour traiter moinsbiologyasasolution.com
2. 2Biology as a Solution (France) – Wikidatawikidata.org