Quillibrium® Wins Crop Science Award for ″Best New Biological Product (Biopesticide)″

November 15, 2022 (Davis, CA) - Botanical Solution Inc. (BSI), innovator of sustainable, consistent and cost-effective Advanced Botanical Materials for agricultural and pharmaceutical applications, has won the Crop Science Award for ″Best New Biological Product (Biopesticide)″.

The best of the crop protection industry was recognized at the Crop Science Awards 2022, formerly known as the Agrow Awards. The 15th installment of the annual event, held online on 10 November, saw a global audience tune in to a live webcast to celebrate the achievements of industry peers.

The award for Best New Biological Product (Biopesticide) went to Botanical Solution’s Quillaja saponaria plant-based fungicide, Quillibrium.  

According to the Crop Science Awards web site, the award criteria was based on ″the product’s effectiveness and how its formulation is acceptable to users and distributors, forging a niche in a market dominated by synthetic chemicals. The judges were not looking for products that perform in the laboratory. We want to see biologicals that work in the real world.″ 

Competition was intense across most categories. In six, high commendations were granted to near-triumphant applications in addition to winners. BSI’s distribution partner for Quillibrium, Syngenta, led the winners with five winning awards.

One of the most highly contested awards was for Best Industry Collaboration. BSI and Syngenta were named finalist for this category.

Upon winning the Award, BSI CEO Gastón Salinas declared, ″We have demonstrated that Quillibrium® is a great tool for growers looking for highly efficacious integrated pest management strategies against rapidly changing climate and disease pressure conditions. We are fortunate to take part of this incredibly rewarding and exciting journey, to develop essential and truly sustainable tools for supporting key challenges of modern agriculture. We are grateful to our partner Syngenta for helping us to augment and accelerate our value proposition to the end-users of Quillibrium. We’re happy and proud to share this Best Biological Product (Biopesticide) Award with the whole team of Syngenta Biologicals.″

Commenting on BSI’s Award, Syngenta’s Head of Global Biological Business Corey Huck declared, ″A few weeks ago, we brought leaders, startups including BSI and those passionate about biologicals, together for our first-ever Biologicals Summit at our R&D site in Stein, Switzerland. Quillibrium and our partnership with BSI are great examples of how to create the right innovation ecosystem, to bring biological solutions to farmers everywhere, faster.″

About BSI

BSI, a Delaware Corporation has a proprietary R&D platform for truly sustainable and improved production of consistent and high- quality Advanced Botanical Materials (ABM). ABM-01 is the first ABM produced by the company, based on a tissue cultured plant called Quillaja saponaria. ABM-01 is the active ingredient used in two gold standard products, BSI’s biopesticide Quillibrium® and the adjuvant QS-21, used in modern vaccine development. To learn more visit us at www.botanical-solution.com.