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Development and implementation of biocontrol methods in integrated plant protection in agriculture and forestry (BIOCOMES)
Project
Project code: JKI-BI-08-1205
Contract period: 01.11.2013
- 30.11.2017
Purpose of research: Applied research
General objective of BIOCOMES is to provide the essential information for development of plant protection products based on invertebrate biological control agents (parasitoids, entomopathogenic nematodes; EPN), baculoviruses for pest control, and bacteria and fungi for pest and fungal disease control. These innovative bio-based plant protection products can be applied by means of seed treatment, pre- and post-harvest applications in open field crops, protected crops and in forestry. Each of these BCAs is covered by one work package. BIOCOMES will develop products to substitute e.g. neonicotinoids and other insecticides which recently have been associated with negative effects on the environment and which may be responsible for the bee-decline, or azole fungicides suspected to function as endocrine disruptors. The consortium activities aim at controlling forestry pests like gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) and pine weevil (Hylobius abietis), aphids in fruit tree crops, lepidopterans in Brassica crops as well as major pests in vegetable production in open field and protected crops like the tomato pinworm (Tuta absoluta), beet armyworm (Spodoptera littoralis, Spodoptera exigua), diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), Mamestra brassicae and whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci, Trialeuroides vaporarorium). Micro-organisms will be used to control fungal diseases caused by Phoma lingam and Verticilllium longisporum in oilseed rape, powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis) in cereals, Fusarium spp. in corn and cereals, and Monilinia spp. (pre- and post-harvest brown rot) in stone fruit.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Crop Protection
- Arboriculture
- Vegetable Gardening
- Silviculture
