Our current focus is on developing on-site Agro-Food pathogen screening kits at low dollars/test allowing customers to take immediate action for ongoing plant health issues. To achieve this goal, we communicate regularly with Agro-Food industries to understand on-going issues and requirements, which are then developed into end-user-friendly kits in our state-of-art molecular biology laboratory. On-site detection helps in several ways that include but are not limited to (i) detecting the pathogen accurately; (ii) creating an IPM program; (iii) preventing the spread of the disease; (iv) mitigating the disease associate loss;(v) reducing pesticide usage; (vi) quality of the product.

Approximately 10 - 40 % of crops are lost to disease worldwide despite using a wide array of toxic pesticides. At GENEXPRESS, we engineer pathogen-specific biopesticides after elucidating plant-microbe-environment interactions at a gene-for-gene level to create effective molecules that boost a plant's immune system.