Pluton mines the soil to find new ways to use microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) to replace synthetic chemicals with safe and effective natural pesticides.

Our high throughput screening and targeted assay platform (shorthand "micromining") is far quicker and less expensive than traditional bioprospecting.

Using micromining, we discovered 10 new bacteria to kill mosquito larvae. Only 2 microbes used now in vector control for mosquito larvae.