Concert Bio

Concert Bio is developing a microbiome optimization platform for hydroponic greenhouse agriculture. Its approach uses a “hydroponic microbiome database” and “cutting edge data science” to identify beneficial microbes for crops grown without soil, aiming to recreate the microbial balance plants need for thriving. The platform is described as leveraging next-generation sequencing-based monitoring combined with microbial/intervention inputs (e.g., probiotic or beneficial microbes) to improve crop growth, quality, and resilience for controlled environment agriculture growers.[1]

The company’s materials describe trials and early product commercialization. For example, a Dutch cultivation trial at Vertify is cited as showing increased harvested yield in treated high-wire tomato production plots when applying Concert Bio’s beneficial microbes. External coverage also describes the company collecting microbe samples from hydroponic greenhouses and sequencing genomes to understand what’s in healthy systems, then using that knowledge to develop interventions to manage disease outbreaks and improve yields for growers. Reporting from Innovate UK Business Connect and TechCrunch further situates Concert Bio’s work in addressing “dirty secret” disease/outbreak issues in hydroponics by enabling growers to monitor and tweak microbial ecosystems with tailored microbial inputs.[1][4][5]