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BioWorks is foucsed to providing environmentally responsible, safe, and effective solutions to the growing needs of the horticulture and specialty agriculture industries. The firm is now also providing innovative products with those same important attributes to the turfgrass industry. BioWorks’ pesticide products are EPA Registered (unless exempt), and most are OMRI Listed for organic growing. As the sustainability movement and the demand for biocontrols continues, BioWorks will continue to provide tools and services to help growers achieve the highest levels of insect and disease control, and plant nutrition, that are safer (both for the environment and for employees) and effective. One such product of proven effectiveness in controlling a wide array of both fungal and bacterial pathogens, while providing outstanding plant and environmental safety is CEASE®. Based on a naturally occurring, patented strain of Bacillus subtilis (strain QST 713), CEASE can be used as a foliar spray and soil drench on ornamentals, trees, shrubs, flowering plants and greenhouse crops and vegetables grown under cover. It is a broad spectrum biofungicide targeting common fungal and bacterial diseases such as Botrytis, Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas, Erwinia, Powdery Mildew, Leaf Spot and Speck, Anthracnose and Rus