Profile: Rincon-Vitova Insectaries supplies products and provide services to farmers & gardeners who want to use effective & sustainable technologies based on biological pest control. We provide inoculants to suppress disease, to improve vigor, and to increase yield. Biostart™ defensor is a microbial soil inoculant that kills the growth of undesirable microorganisms in the soil ecosystem & also produces bacillibactin, a siderophore enzyme that destroys certain soil pests. The two bacillus strains, bacillus subtilis and bacillus cereus used here, are naturally occurring & are produced in stainless steel bioreactors under precisely controlled conditions that assure potency, stability and batch to batch uniformity to yield a spore count of 1 trillion cfu/gallon.