Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TYCHOBIO (Commercialization of high-value chemical production in moss)
Période du rapport: 2017-03-01 au 2017-08-31
WP2: Upscaling in a relevant environment
WP3: Feasibility report
We have generated a comprehensive feasibility study of our business concept.
A professional freedom-to-operate analysis was conducted during the project, which stated that we have freedom-to-operate when developing new genetic tools to optimize moss for the production of specialty plant chemicals. We plan to submit a patent application covering the production of an antioxidant in our moss platform late 2017.
We investigated several upscaling methods, including Wave plastic bags, tubular photobioreactors and simple glass bioreactors for in-house use. We showed that moss grows very fast in our bioreactor and we expect to be able to reduce the growth-rate in future tests. In the business plan we have identified our target market, made a customer profiling, a business model and initiated customer contact which resulted in positive feedback and proof that our platform has industrial interest.