Objective
Chemical pesticides are an important tool of modern agriculture. However, the chermicals are implicated in environmental, ecological.and human health problems so a need exists to find effective, less deleterious, alternative approaches. The use of bacteria, in particular Bacillus thuringiensis, is one such option, whose cost-effectiveness is comparable to that of chemicals, but it suffers from several problems. The current proposal aims at improving bacteria with pest control properties by understanding and developing key tools relating to the persistence of the micro-organism in the environment. The objectives of this programme are:
1. To develop a classification system that allows bacteria to be assessed for specific outdoor applications. 2. To construct a bacterial strain with enhanced desiccation tolerance. 3. To improve the use of self destruction systems to limit bacterial persistence by constructing a prolonged persistence bacterial strain with a functional self-destruct system triggered by low temperature or absence of proline/pantothenic acid secretion from the roots of plants. 4. To develop a mathemathical modelthat allows improvements in the assesments of the risks involved in releases of micro-organisms in the environment. This model will then be used to assess the impact of the self-destruct and improved desiccation tolerance on the overall risk.
To fulfil these specific goals the following work programme is proposed:
A. Development of a prolonged persistence self-destruct system triggered by a drop in temperature or repressed by plant root exudates, and incorporating novel toxins from the relE-family. The systems will be inserted in desiccation tolerant Pseudomonas putida strains and the final construct tested in the field. B. Development of Pseudomonas putida strains with enhanced desiccation tolerance. C. Development of a risk analysis model that will be used to simulate the impact of self-destruct systems and improved desiccation tolerance. D. Construct an open access database of bacteria with potential applications in agriculture, bioremediation, biorecovery and other outdoor uses, classified in accordance with parameters of importance for researchers in this field.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- engineering and technology environmental biotechnology bioremediation
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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Coordinator
2100 KOEPENHAGEN
Denmark
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