Blackgrass is one of the most economically damaging weeds in northern Europe and is exceptionally difficult for farmers to control.
In this short video, Dr Virginia Corless and Alice Hannam take you behind the scenes at our Yorkshire glasshouse research facility for a sneak peek at one of our most exciting novel mode of action discoveries yet: a new post-emergent herbicide targeting blackgrass in cereal crops.
Moa Technology has opened a second research facility based at the Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) situated at Cawood between Leeds and York (UK). The pipeline of promising lead candidates flowing from Moa Technology’s high throughput invivo screening platforms at its Oxford headquarters will be tested instate-of-the-art glasshouses and on into field trials on this 75 hectare site on prime arable land.
STC has been at the heart of agricultural and horticultural research for more than seventy years and is well connected with the UK’s other leading research organisations through CHAP, the Agri-Tech Centre for Health and Crop Protection.
The Moa team at STC will confirm new herbicide active ingredient lead molecules, developing profiles of crop selectivity and weed control spectrum. The focus will be on previously unexplored chemistry and resistance-breaking new modes of action.
Moa’s CEO Dr Virginia Corless commented: ‘We are proud to be opening this new facility on an important site with a long track record of successfully contributing to sustainable food production.’
Chief Technology Officer at Moa, Dr Shuji Hachisu, added: ‘This significant increase in our screening power will boost the progress of exciting new herbicide candidate molecules through to development and commercialisation.’
