Patents Assigned to BIOBEST GROUP N.V.
  • BENEFICIAL YEASTS FOR ARTHROPODS
    Publication number: 20190373870
    Abstract: Methods for rearing arthropods, particularly pollinating insects, comprising providing said arthropods with a Wickerhamiella yeast, preferably Wickerhamiella bombiphila yeast, also known as Candida bombiphila, or substances produced thereby, particularly comprised within a food composition, are provided herein. Advantageously, said yeast, particularly food compositions comprising said yeast, when provided to an arthropod, particularly a pollinating insect, improves the fitness, health, behaviour and activity of the arthropod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicants: BIOBEST GROUP N.V., KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
    Inventors: Maria Isabel Pozo Romero, Alfredo Benavente Martinez, Annette Van Oystaeyen, Hans Jacquemyn, Jacek Bartlewicz, Felix Wäckers