November 25, 2025
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Launched in October 2023, the IGS (Intelligent Green Symbiosa) project is now entering its final year. Led by Doriane (France), together with SICOP GROUP (Spain) and Symbiagro (Italy), IGS aims to enable a new generation of biosolution experimentation; one that is digital, multi-factorial, and connected to the realities of the field.
After two years of work, the consortium has reached several key milestones. The new software Bloomeo Biosolutions has been successfully launched; the first large-scale field and greenhouse trials have been completed or are ongoing; and the data science backbone of the project has started to take shape.
At the heart of IGS lies Bloomeo Biosolutions, a software designed to manage, analyze, and valorize complex agronomic trials for biostimulants and biocontrol products. Built by Doriane, the system enables full digitalization of the experimentation process; from protocol creation to automatic reporting.
After two years of development and collaborative testing with project partners, Bloomeo is now operational and commercialized. The platform is already being used by several prominent players in the biosolutions sector, including Kelp Blue BCF Life Sciences, AXIOMA BIOSTIMULANTS , AgriTecno | Ajinomoto Group, and Rovensa Next.
Feedback from users has been highly positive, emphasizing:
“Bloomeo has become a bridge between field experimentation and product development,” explains the Doriane team. “It allows R&D teams and CROs to work together seamlessly, with immediate visibility on data quality and results.”
A major strength of Bloomeo is its ability to analyze data at multiple scales, at the level of a single trial, a product, or an entire network of trials. This structure opens the door to deeper statistical understanding of how biosolutions perform under various environmental and agronomic conditions.
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Over the past two years, Symbiagro has developed three new biosolution formulations aimed at improving plant nutrient uptake and overall crop resilience.
Symbiagro s.r.l. is a “Green-biotech” company specialized in formulation, production and sale of innovative biostimulants for agriculture. Its vision, based on the idea of symbiotic association between microorganisms and plants in return to the origin, aligns with the IGS project one, which aims to accelerate the transition toward sustainable agriculture through the adoption of innovative biosolutions.
As BIOSTIMULANTS, two products were designed:
- A fine powder formulation, to use in fertigation or radical bath, suitable for example for tomato, grapevine and olive.
- A combination of a liquid formulation for foliar application and a granular one to apply at the sowing. These products are ideal for use on extensive crops, like wheat and soy.
All the products are composed of plant-based organic matrices and a Bacillus sp. strain. The matrices change according to the different modes of application, to facilitate the use on different crops.
The aim of Symbiagro biostimulants is to return to nature where bacteria were naturally present in the soil. These products promote the enrichment of microbiomes, helping plants nutrient uptake, allowing them to achieve superior agricultural performance in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.
As BIOFUNGICIDE, a specific powder formulation against strawberry pathogen Botrytis cinerea was created, whose efficacy is built on the potential of a Trichoderma sp. strain against this fungus in the dual-culture laboratory test.
The use of this product allows the reduction of the pathology while respecting the environment.
The results so far achieved, thanks to all the partners involved in the IGS project, are encouraging, giving solid foundation for future applications. This is a step towards a more sustainable and data-driven agriculture.
To validate their performance, SICOP GROUP has conducted or initiated 29 agronomic trials, of which 23 have already been completed. These experiments span a wide range of crops — including tomato, strawberry, olive, grapevine, wheat, and soybeans and are carried out in both greenhouse and open-field conditions.
A major innovation of this phase lies in the meta-analytical design of the trials. Each experimental protocol was built to compare multiple application conditions, allowing the project team to analyze how various factors, such as variety, dosage, pedoclimatic parameters, and abiotic stress influence product efficacy. To support this approach, advanced variables such as real-time soil microbiome profiles and qPCR analyses were integrated into the datasets.
Several trials were also conducted directly with farmers, ensuring that real-world practices and feedback are reflected in the results. Through a network of sensors deployed by AIGRO Tech Solutions, detailed pedoclimatic data (soil moisture, temperature, humidity) are continuously collected and automatically fed into Bloomeo for centralized analysis.
Preliminary findings have already provided valuable insights into how environmental conditions shape biosolution performance, helping refine both formulation strategies and application guidelines. The integration of sensor data and trial results into Bloomeo now offers the consortium an unprecedented capacity for cross-trial analytics and data-driven decision-making.
IGS has also invested in building the scientific and data foundations for future analytics. All trial data from the first two years have now been integrated into Bloomeo’s database, ensuring a consistent, high-quality dataset for advanced analysis.
The data science team at Doriane has started developing algorithms to improve data quality, focusing first on outlier detection; identifying inconsistent or erroneous data points that could bias statistical results. This first step lays the groundwork for the machine learning models that will be developed in the final phase of the project.
From a communication and outreach perspective, IGS has already gained visibility within the biosolutions community. A manifesto and a poster were presented at the ABIM - Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting conference, drawing significant interest from both researchers and industry representatives.
As IGS enters its third and final year, the consortium is focusing on deepening its analyses and finalizing remaining developments.
The next updates will bring enhanced contextualization of data; integrating pedoclimatic parameters such as rainfall, temperature, and soil type into the analytical dashboards. This will allow users to better interpret how environmental variability influences biosolution performance.
The last ongoing trials will be finalized by March 2026, with complete datasets covering a wide range of crops, conditions, and agricultural practices. This data will feed into the final analyses and reports.
A structured network of participating farmers will be further animated, through field visits and digital interactions, to share results and discuss the adoption of biosolutions. This participatory approach is central to IGS’s mission: connecting innovation with the people who make it happen on the ground.
Symbiagro will complete the LCA studies on the three biosolution prototypes developed within the project, assessing their environmental impact from production to application. This will help quantify the ecological benefits compared to conventional chemical products.
Data collected from sensors and weather stations will be analyzed to correlate environmental variables with product performance. This analysis will highlight how soil type, humidity, or temperature influence yield and efficacy.
Finally, the team will begin developing a predictive model to simulate how Symbiagro’s products would perform in new, untested environments. The model will use the large dataset now available in Bloomeo as its training base, bringing a new dimension to biosolution R&D.
The IGS project demonstrates that digital tools, rigorous experimentation, and collaborative research can unlock the full potential of natural products.
With Bloomeo Biosolutions now serving as a living platform for experimentation data, and field trials continuing to expand the evidence base, IGS is paving the way toward a more transparent, data-driven, and sustainable future for European agriculture.
IGS : Turning agricultural data into meaningful insights for biosolutions.
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Louis Gauthier
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November 25, 2025
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Launched in October 2023, the IGS (Intelligent Green Symbiosa) project is now entering its final year. Led by Doriane (France), together with SICOP GROUP (Spain) and Symbiagro (Italy), IGS aims to enable a new generation of biosolution experimentation; one that is digital, multi-factorial, and connected to the realities of the field.
After two years of work, the consortium has reached several key milestones. The new software Bloomeo Biosolutions has been successfully launched; the first large-scale field and greenhouse trials have been completed or are ongoing; and the data science backbone of the project has started to take shape.
At the heart of IGS lies Bloomeo Biosolutions, a software designed to manage, analyze, and valorize complex agronomic trials for biostimulants and biocontrol products. Built by Doriane, the system enables full digitalization of the experimentation process; from protocol creation to automatic reporting.
After two years of development and collaborative testing with project partners, Bloomeo is now operational and commercialized. The platform is already being used by several prominent players in the biosolutions sector, including Kelp Blue BCF Life Sciences, AXIOMA BIOSTIMULANTS , AgriTecno | Ajinomoto Group, and Rovensa Next.
Feedback from users has been highly positive, emphasizing:
“Bloomeo has become a bridge between field experimentation and product development,” explains the Doriane team. “It allows R&D teams and CROs to work together seamlessly, with immediate visibility on data quality and results.”
A major strength of Bloomeo is its ability to analyze data at multiple scales, at the level of a single trial, a product, or an entire network of trials. This structure opens the door to deeper statistical understanding of how biosolutions perform under various environmental and agronomic conditions.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ
Over the past two years, Symbiagro has developed three new biosolution formulations aimed at improving plant nutrient uptake and overall crop resilience.
Symbiagro s.r.l. is a “Green-biotech” company specialized in formulation, production and sale of innovative biostimulants for agriculture. Its vision, based on the idea of symbiotic association between microorganisms and plants in return to the origin, aligns with the IGS project one, which aims to accelerate the transition toward sustainable agriculture through the adoption of innovative biosolutions.
As BIOSTIMULANTS, two products were designed:
- A fine powder formulation, to use in fertigation or radical bath, suitable for example for tomato, grapevine and olive.
- A combination of a liquid formulation for foliar application and a granular one to apply at the sowing. These products are ideal for use on extensive crops, like wheat and soy.
All the products are composed of plant-based organic matrices and a Bacillus sp. strain. The matrices change according to the different modes of application, to facilitate the use on different crops.
The aim of Symbiagro biostimulants is to return to nature where bacteria were naturally present in the soil. These products promote the enrichment of microbiomes, helping plants nutrient uptake, allowing them to achieve superior agricultural performance in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.
As BIOFUNGICIDE, a specific powder formulation against strawberry pathogen Botrytis cinerea was created, whose efficacy is built on the potential of a Trichoderma sp. strain against this fungus in the dual-culture laboratory test.
The use of this product allows the reduction of the pathology while respecting the environment.
The results so far achieved, thanks to all the partners involved in the IGS project, are encouraging, giving solid foundation for future applications. This is a step towards a more sustainable and data-driven agriculture.
To validate their performance, SICOP GROUP has conducted or initiated 29 agronomic trials, of which 23 have already been completed. These experiments span a wide range of crops — including tomato, strawberry, olive, grapevine, wheat, and soybeans and are carried out in both greenhouse and open-field conditions.
A major innovation of this phase lies in the meta-analytical design of the trials. Each experimental protocol was built to compare multiple application conditions, allowing the project team to analyze how various factors, such as variety, dosage, pedoclimatic parameters, and abiotic stress influence product efficacy. To support this approach, advanced variables such as real-time soil microbiome profiles and qPCR analyses were integrated into the datasets.
Several trials were also conducted directly with farmers, ensuring that real-world practices and feedback are reflected in the results. Through a network of sensors deployed by AIGRO Tech Solutions, detailed pedoclimatic data (soil moisture, temperature, humidity) are continuously collected and automatically fed into Bloomeo for centralized analysis.
Preliminary findings have already provided valuable insights into how environmental conditions shape biosolution performance, helping refine both formulation strategies and application guidelines. The integration of sensor data and trial results into Bloomeo now offers the consortium an unprecedented capacity for cross-trial analytics and data-driven decision-making.
IGS has also invested in building the scientific and data foundations for future analytics. All trial data from the first two years have now been integrated into Bloomeo’s database, ensuring a consistent, high-quality dataset for advanced analysis.
The data science team at Doriane has started developing algorithms to improve data quality, focusing first on outlier detection; identifying inconsistent or erroneous data points that could bias statistical results. This first step lays the groundwork for the machine learning models that will be developed in the final phase of the project.
From a communication and outreach perspective, IGS has already gained visibility within the biosolutions community. A manifesto and a poster were presented at the ABIM - Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting conference, drawing significant interest from both researchers and industry representatives.
As IGS enters its third and final year, the consortium is focusing on deepening its analyses and finalizing remaining developments.
The next updates will bring enhanced contextualization of data; integrating pedoclimatic parameters such as rainfall, temperature, and soil type into the analytical dashboards. This will allow users to better interpret how environmental variability influences biosolution performance.
The last ongoing trials will be finalized by March 2026, with complete datasets covering a wide range of crops, conditions, and agricultural practices. This data will feed into the final analyses and reports.
A structured network of participating farmers will be further animated, through field visits and digital interactions, to share results and discuss the adoption of biosolutions. This participatory approach is central to IGS’s mission: connecting innovation with the people who make it happen on the ground.
Symbiagro will complete the LCA studies on the three biosolution prototypes developed within the project, assessing their environmental impact from production to application. This will help quantify the ecological benefits compared to conventional chemical products.
Data collected from sensors and weather stations will be analyzed to correlate environmental variables with product performance. This analysis will highlight how soil type, humidity, or temperature influence yield and efficacy.
Finally, the team will begin developing a predictive model to simulate how Symbiagro’s products would perform in new, untested environments. The model will use the large dataset now available in Bloomeo as its training base, bringing a new dimension to biosolution R&D.
The IGS project demonstrates that digital tools, rigorous experimentation, and collaborative research can unlock the full potential of natural products.
With Bloomeo Biosolutions now serving as a living platform for experimentation data, and field trials continuing to expand the evidence base, IGS is paving the way toward a more transparent, data-driven, and sustainable future for European agriculture.
IGS : Turning agricultural data into meaningful insights for biosolutions.
Louis Gauthier
Co-owner, Executive manager
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