Periodic Reporting for period 1 - FreeMi (Using FREshwater organisms to MItigate the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2015-06-01 al 2017-05-31
Although safe biological control tools are challenging to develop, many of them have successfully contributed to the protection of the flora and the fauna of natural ecosystems and are presently a key component in many recovery plans, as well as management of agricultural pests. The new knowledge acquired by FreeMi is therefore of tremendous importance for other pathogens in other ecosystems and in the industry. Indeed, many cultivated algae and animals produced in aquatic farms suffer from zoosporic fungi in both freshwater and marine systems. Therefore, the framework developed by FreeMi will be useful to develop similar biocontrol against these fungi leading to considerable economic losses in aquaculture industry producing food, food supplements, biofuels and pharmaceuticals.