BugBiome hopes to save crops such as potatoes and sugar beet from harmful sap-sucking aphids, using a bioinsecticide made from microorganisms found in plants.

Roz Bird, CEO of Anglia Innovation Partnership, the campus management organisation for Norwich Research Park, with Dr Alicia Showering, CEO and co-founder of BugBiome(Image: Supplied)

It comes as new regulations are forcing farmers to reduce the amount of chemical insecticides they spray on their crops.

The agricultural sector is searching for solutions - and the scientists at BugBiome could now have found the answer.

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