OUR FOCUS
Biotelliga is focussed on fungi.
Fungi are ubiquitous in their interactions with plants, including crop plants, and produce an array of active biomolecules. By focusing on the biology of these complex and important plant-interaction specialists, Biotelliga utilises biological understanding to generate high value crop protection products.
Our product development is focussed on two broad areas – sprayable pesticides developed from fungal metabolites and endophytes (plant-infecting beneficial fungi) for trait delivery (such as insect resistance) in crop plants.
ENDOPHYTES
Within the company’s competency focus on fungi, a specific aspect important to our future direction is the ability to dissect and understand fungal interactions with plants. The company is especially competent at working with fungal endophytes.
These fungi spend some or all of their lifecycle living inside plants and in some cases benefit the host plant by protection from insects or diseases, or by facilitating water or nutrient uptake. To utilise these organisms requires experience, the right tools and the right way of thinking.
