The magazine El Economista Agro published a report on SDLE – a company incubated in the Park – on January 15. The report focuses on working with bioproducts for ecological remediation. SDLE’s Technology and Research Centre, led by its Director Mercedes Iriarte, has developed a natural polymer to combat “dry”. This disease, caused by a pseudofungus, causes the death of holm oaks and cork oaks in the Spanish pastures in a few months. The polymer proposed by SDLE has very good fungicidal characteristics to combat “dry”.
The company hopes to be able to market the bioproduct for the “dry” season by the end of this year or the beginning of 2023. In any case, the results of this project will help to improve the cultivation of productive plants. These efforts are part of SDLE’s firm commitment – created in 2009 and which currently has nearly 200 employees – to R+D+i. After the launch in 2021 of its R+D+i Technology Centre, the company is beginning to show the fruits of the work carried out in recent years by researchers such as Iriarte.
This project is carried out with the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid of the CSIC and the company Langenomics Biodetect S.L. The latter company is a spin-off of the CSIC, created from its participation in the Dinamiza acceleration programme. The FPCM collaborates with this acceleration program as part of the efforts to promote scientific and technological entrepreneurship.
The full report published in El Economista Agro can be read at this link.
