Enko Chem Reports Breakthrough Field Trial Success for Next-Generation Graminicide Portfolio
As stricter environmental and safety standards reduce the availability of conventional herbicides, growers face fewer options for managing persistent weeds that significantly reduce crop yields. Enko's next generation graminicides are safe and sustainable potential replacements for older products that address the evolving needs of both growers and regulators.
The European field trials were conducted across the United Kingdom and France, where herbicide-resistant blackgrass is known to cause crop yield losses of up to 70% in severe cases. Enko's innovative chemistry demonstrated superior performance compared to existing commercial standards.
Prior to Europe, Enko's North American spring trials demonstrated efficacy against other problematic warm-season grasses including crabgrass, giant foxtail, and goosegrass, while Australian tests addressed the growing threat of resistant annual ryegrass. The European results build upon this foundation of success across diverse geographies and weed species.
'Our product candidates integrate seamlessly into existing cereal crop systems and deliver industry-leading control of resistant grass species,' says Tony Klemm, CEO of Enko. 'Growers urgently need new, effective, and environmentally responsible chemistry. This graminicide portfolio is proof that a smarter discovery model delivers solutions – addressing key challenges like blackgrass resistance while advancing safe, sustainable agriculture.'
With development efforts reaching key benchmarks, Enko is actively collaborating with multiple industry partners to accelerate the global commercialization of its products.
For more information about Enko and its pipeline of crop protection solutions, visit www.enko.ag.
About Enko®
Enko (Enko Chem Inc.) designs safe and sustainable solutions to farmers' biggest crop threats today, from pest resistance to new diseases. By applying the latest drug discovery and development approaches from pharma to plants, Enko is bringing an innovation model to agriculture and meeting farmers' evolving needs. Founded in 2017, and led by a team of proven scientists, entrepreneurs, and agriculture industry veterans, Enko is backed by investors including the Gates Foundation, Anterra Capital, DYDK Capital, Nufarm, Novalis LifeSciences, Germin8 Ventures, TO Ventures Food, and Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund. Enko is headquartered in Mystic, Connecticut, USA. For more information, visit www.enko.ag.
Enko's Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forecasts, projections, goals, plans, and other forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on Enko's assumptions, estimates, outlook, and other judgments made in light of information available at the time of preparation of such statements and involve both known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, plans, goals, and other statements may not be realized as described, and actual financial results, success/failure or progress of development, and other projections may differ materially from those presented herein. The forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond Enko's control and that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Enko does not intend to update any forward-looking statements appearing herein in the event of changing circumstances or otherwise, and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.
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