We are ITESO_Guadalajara and we join forces with BerryQT, who is little blueberry that it’s as
interested as we are about science and help her berries friends, so we designed BerryVax, a
preventive and corrective biocontrol solution with a self-manageable system.
In it, we propose to genetically modify of bacteria already present in the soil of berry crops:
Bacillus subtilis to overexpress surfactin, activating the plant’s defense system while improving
water absorption and fruit quality.
Furthermore, the bacteria will be able to produce chitinase to degrade the fungal wall as a
corrective measure when fusaric acid (produced by pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum) is present, ensuring
that the
corrective mode will be activated only when needed. BerryVax, innovating in Mexican agriculture one
berry at a time.