BYOP - Brew your own pheromone: A bio-based production method for insect pheromones using yeast cell factories

ISCA Technologies will optimize a novel, inexpensive biological method of fabrication of high value, difficult to synthesize from petroleum materials, pheromones which are of great importance in agricultural pest control. ISCA will further optimize its novel method of production of bio-based insect pheromones to develop new, inexpensive, pest management products for US crops based on resultant bio-based insect pheromones. This work allows for large-scale fermentation processes creating new possibilities for cheaper, greener, and more efficient production of insect pheromones: once we are done, we will be manufacturing our pheromones using the same production methods used to produce fermentedproducts, likebeer.