Phages are commonly found in the natural environment and use the lysis process to eliminate viruses from specific bacteria. The process of phage lysis of pathogenic bacteria is speedy, and a cycle of phages is usually completed within 20-30 minutes, significantly faster than the reproduction rate of pathogenic bacteria. Within a single cycle, pathogenic bacteria lysis can release several hundred daughter phages, which can re-act on surrounding pathogenic bacteria. This process is repeated until the specific bacterium is destroyed and the phage breaks down into the environment. Thus, a single phage can kill billions of pathogenic bacteria by repeating only 4 cycles. Lifeasible is committed to helping our customers develop better agricultural phage formulations for use in agricultural production by using our technology to detect and analyze agrophages.