Our Story
EcoPhage is an agribiotechnology company, providing sustainable and effective, phage-based crop protection solutions to manage bacterial plant diseases. Phages are naturally occurring viruses (bacteriophages) that target bacteria and are safe and inert to humans, animals, and plants.
We select the best phages for our products, and generate the most optimal combinations
to create “super phage cocktails” for superior crop protection
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Board of Directors
Our Technology
The Need
There is a dire and immediate need for crop protection against bacterial diseases.
Farmers are seeking effective and sustainable solutions to combat over 200 bacterial diseases, which cause billions of dollars in annual yield damage to major crops globally. Current synthetic pesticides include a wide use of copper and antibiotics, yet these are insufficient due to poor efficacy and resistance development of the disease-causing bacteria. Since many common synthetic pesticides have environmental repercussions their use is being further limited due to regulation and public pressure. Antibiotics are less accepted publicly, especially due to their antimicrobial resistance, which is one of the biggest health concerns of this decade.
The EcoPhage Solution
EcoPhage is at the forefront of crop phage biocontrol. Our solutions rely on rationally-designed bacteriophage cocktails that target and eradicate harmful bacteria on crops. The company’s proprietary technological platform screens its enriched phage collection, characterizes and selects the promising phage candidates to be used as a basis for highly effective and sustainable phage cocktails for antimicrobial crop protection.



Phages are the most abundant entities in nature, with their number estimated at >1031. However, only a small fraction of phages possess all the attributes required for product development, and of these, only a subset can be used synergistically in a cocktail.
At EcoPhage, we have the technology platforms and know-how to identify and select these “super phages” that are the most suitable for use in crop-phage treatment.

Our technology stands on three major pillars:
- High throughput screening of active phages that can eradicate target bacteria
- Functional and genetic characterization to identify the most promising “super phages” – those that are most suitable for further product development
- Rationally designed super phage cocktails through identification of phages that are most suitable to work together synergistically, while significantly reducing the chances for bacterial resistance

Bacteriophages (aka phages) are natural enemies of bacteria, derived from the Greek word “phago” which means to eat, making them “bacteria eaters”.
Phages are natural entities that exist everywhere in nature. In fact, we encounter millions of phages on any typical day. They effectively kill their target-specific bacteria without affecting anything else in their surroundings and are safe for humans, plants, and the environment.
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