Project description
Synthetic microbiome against grapevine trunk diseases
Over the past two decades, grapevine trunk diseases (GTD) have been increasingly affecting grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.). Undoubtedly, these diseases represent the biggest challenge for modern viticulture. Viticulturists have been employing fungicides, insecticides, herbicides and synthetic fertilisers for well over a century. According to recent research, these treatments may have caused an imbalance in the grapevine endophytic microbiome. This provides a possible explanation of the recent success of GTD-associated pathogens. The EU-funded WildWoodMicrobes project will combine plant pathology, epigenetics and microbial ecology and study wild populations of V. vinifera subsp. sylvestris (VVS). The project will unravel the endophytic microbiome diversity of wild populations of VVS, re-introduce endophytes isolated from VVS in cultivated grapevines, and assess the efficacy of the synthetic microbiome in antagonising GTD-associated pathogens.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant
Coordinator
33100 Udine
Italy
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Partners (2)
33095 Rauscedo Pn
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1165 Kobenhavn
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