Project description
Helping crops thrive in drought and saline soils
Accelerated by climate change, abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity are affecting crop yields globally, posing a significant threat to food security. One eco-friendly solution is the use of biostimulants, natural substances that help crops withstand stress and enhance crop yields. With this in mind, the EIC-funded SUBTARC project is scaling up the production and validation of a new biostimulant produced through bacterial fermentation. Its advantage is that it works effectively at very low doses, making it affordable and easy to integrate into existing farming practices. Overall, SUBTARC seeks to strengthen crop resilience and thereby contribute to a sustainable agricultural production and global food security in a world where the climate is changing.
Objective
Today, drought and salinity constitute two of the most severe threats to global food security, and are rapidly increasing as climate
changes progress. These stresses have a high impact on plant’s ability to use nutrients, resulting in a significant reduction in crop
yields. Accordingly, ca. €90 B/year are lost due to salinity and drought, representing 800+ M ha of arable land affected globally only by salinity. To tackle this clear socio-economic problem, new, sustainable solutions are urgently needed. Players in BioAgriculture have been developing a new class of solutions termed biostimulants, i.e. substances or microorganisms stimulating plant response, which improves its utilization of nutrients and tolerance to abiotic stresses. Despite such solutions already exist on the market, they typically rely on the application of large doses, rendering the solutions expensive and difficult to implement in existing agronomic practices. To address this market gap, Agrobiomics is developing a new biostimulant solution produced by bacterial fermentation, which effectively tackles the limitations of existing solutions. Agrobiomics’ solution presents an unseen potency on stimulating a sound plant’s response to drought and salinity, requiring thus very low dosages. With the solution validated for different types of broadacre and Fruits & Vegetables crops, Agrobiomics now aims to optimize and scale-up the production and demonstrate the efficacy of its solution in large field trials, essential to develop the regulatory package needed for approval and to convince end-users and big BioAg companies about the robustness of the technology. These activities will be key to unlock the commercialization of this new product. Therefore, the EIC-A support is critical to co-finance the final technology maturation steps and market entry, thus allowing Agrobiomics to disrupt the biostimulants market with a new solution that makes agriculture resilient to climate change.
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology bioprocessing technologies fermentation
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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2200 Kobenhavn
Denmark
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