Plant Health Care Stock

Plant Health Care plc provides proprietary biological products to the agriculture markets worldwide.

The company offers products to improve the health, vigour and yield of major field crops, such as corn, soybeans, potatoes and rice, as well as speciality crops, such as fruits and vegetables. It operates worldwide through subsidiaries, distributors and supply agreements with major industry partners. The company’s patent-protected biological products help growers to protect their crops from stress and diseases, and to produce fruit and vegetables, with a favourable environmental profile.

Products

Harpin aß: The company offers Harpin aß, a recombinant protein, which acts as a biostimulant, promoting the yield and quality of crops. It sells Harpin aß through specialist distributors worldwide.

Myconate: The company sells the proprietary soil treatment Myconate in selected countries. It sells Myconate through specialist distributors worldwide.

In Mexico, the company distributes third-party biological products

Strategy

The key elements of the company's strategy include substantial increasing in market access, launching peptide products from its PREtec platforms, building further the capability to deliver additional products from PREtec, IP protection and ongoing innovation

Intellectual Property

The company has designed various closely related peptide variants and filed approximately 50 patent applications worldwide since 2012 to protect this technology. In 2019, its first US patent for PREtec was issued. the U.S. Patent No. 10,470,461 claims a large number of response elicitor peptides, as well as their use in combination with other agricultural products to enhance disease resistance, improve plant growth and impart tolerance to both biotic stresses and abiotic stresses, such as heat, drought and excess soil salinity

History

Plant Health Care plc was founded in 1995.