Scotland's dairy industry generates approximately 25,000 tonnes of salt whey annually. Together, Take Root Bio and Heriot-Watt University's International Centre for Brewing and Distilling aimed to develop a waste valorisation pathway for salt whey.

Research groups at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde are developing treatments for seed potatoes that rely on the use of bacteriocins, non-conventional protein antibiotics that show strong narrow spectrum killing activity against related bacterial species.  They have developed a discovery and testing pipeline for bacteriocins with potential for application in a potato treatment

The University of Glasgow proposed a spin-out, Casdu, to exploit this pipeline to develop, produce (or licence the production of) bacteriocin-based prophylactic treatment(s)