Project description
NextGenBioPest: Innovative Approaches Reducing Pesticide Use
Plant pests and pathogens damage crops and threaten food security. However, controlling them with synthetic insecticides harms the environment. Developing new pest and pathogen control methods is essential to meet the challenge of increasing crop yields. The EU-funded NextGenBioPest project aims to reduce the use of pesticides while delivering new and improved methods for controlling arthropod pests and pathogens. The project will provide a new toolkit for crop protection in crucial fruit and vegetable crops. This toolkit will include diagnostics, biological control agents, RNA-based pesticides, eco-friendly chemicals, and innovative agronomic and ecological practices. The project will integrate these innovations with existing approaches, assess their effectiveness and socioeconomic impact, and deliver extensive training.
Objective
Plant pests and pathogens damage agricultural production and endanger food security. Their control relies heavily on the use of synthetic insecticides, leading to a negative environmental impact. Developing new methods for pest and pathogen control is therefore essential to safeguard human health and meet the challenge of increasing crop yields, while reducing the use of chemical pesticides. The overarching objective of the NextGenBioPest project is to meet this need by delivering novel and improved products, methods, and practices for the rational control of the most difficult-to-manage arthropod pests and pathogens, with substantially reduced pesticide use. The project will provide a new toolkit for plant protection in key vegetable and fruit crops including diagnostics for pest and pathogen identification and incrimination, novel Biological Control Agents and methods to augment their performance in the field, RNA-based pesticides, Low Risk/Green chemicals, plant resistance inducers and innovative agronomic and ecological practices. These innovations will be integrated with existing approaches, to achieve effective, environment friendly and sustainable crop protection. They will be validated in large field studies, with both their efficiency and socioeconomic impact assessed. Demonstration fields, extensive training and modern targeted communication channels, will enable the appropriate dissemination and uptake of the outcomes to the stakeholders and end users. Data protection and commercialization strategies will ensure their exploitation. These goals will be achieved by integrating leading institutional and industrial partners with drivers of pest control programs. The multidisciplinary and multi-actor team will exploit their diverse expertise, access to extensive preliminary data and resources, and strong networks, to meet the project objectives and ensure the knowledge and tools generated deliver economic, ecological and societal impact.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomyplant protection
- agricultural sciencesother agricultural sciences
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturefruit growing
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
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Participants (19)
9000 Gent
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2260 Westerlo
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47120 LOS PALACIOS Y VILLAFRANCA
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151 23 MAROUSI
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75007 Paris
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46113 Moncada
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11145 Athina
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80686 Munchen
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95131 Catania
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949 76 Nitra
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26006 La Rioja
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370 05 Ceske Budejovice
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75116 Paris
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32100 LEIVADIA
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
71201 Heraklion
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03780 PEGO
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70200 Timpaki
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8800 RUMBEKE-BEITEM
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118 55 ATHINA
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
N6A 3K7 Ontario -London
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
EX4 4QJ Exeter
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