Exhibit 31

                                 CERTIFICATIONS

I, ___________________, President and Principal Financial Officer of
ESCAGenetics Corporation (the "Company"),certify that:

1. I have reviewed the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-QSB;

2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue
statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly
report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in the quarterly report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial conditions, results of operations and cash flows of the
registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in the quarterly report;

4. I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14) for the
registrant and have:

     (a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision, to
ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to me by others within those entities,
particularly during the period in which the periodic report is being prepared;

     (b) evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness
of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
by this quarterly report based on such evaluation; and

     (c) disclosed in this quarterly report any change in the Company's internal
control over financial reporting that occurred during the Company's most recent
fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting; and

5. I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the Company's auditors and to the audit committee of the
board of directors (or persons fulfilling the equivalent function):

          (i) all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of
     internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
     adversely affect the Company's ability to record, process, summarize and
     report financial information; and

          (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
     other employees who have a significant role in the Company's internal
     control over financial reporting.



Dated:  August _____, 2003

By:_____________________________
         Kevin R. Keating
         President and Principal Financial Officer