Scientists have been isolating natural products and studying their roles for over a century. So it is not surprising that natural products have provided abundant sources for solutions in the fields of medicine, animal health and plant crop protection. The first half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century is often referred to as the Golden Age of natural products because of the relative ease of discovering new antibiotics with novel modes of action. But by the 1990’s natural product discovery efforts had dramatically declined due to high degree of re-discoveries as well as the advent of high throughput screening using combinatorial libraries. In recent years this declining trend seems to have come to a stop due to technological advances in genome sequencing, mass spectrometry, genetic and metabolic engineering. New approaches to uncover novel natural products have reinvigorated efforts in the field of natural product research and we are entering a renaissance period of natural product discovery and development. This presentation will highlight the different tools and approaches utilized within Corteva’s natural product discovery program in order to unveil nature’s vast potential and build upon it with the aim to deliver sustainable crop protection solutions.

Natural products: A source and inspiration for crop protection solutions

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