Crop Protection in the 21 st Century: Era of Biology Piet M. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Crop Protection in the 21 st Century: Era of Biology Piet M. Boonekamp Seed meets Technology, Zwaagdijk 26 Sept. 2019

Challenges Crop Protection in the 21st century From successful Chemical control towards more ‘Green’ Crop protection, while: • More production is needed for increasing population • Unpredictable Climate Change effects might jeopardize stable yields � ...and present ‘green’ solutions are more risky

Paradigm change: More R esilient Plants and Systems needed in 21 st century : • Now: most Crop protection is reactive � Diseases occur and need to be treated (chemical/biological/physical) • Future: proactive: towards resilient plants and systems � Less chances for pests and diseases!!

2030: Towards Resilient Plants and Cropping Systems By Biodiversity (and Technology) � Biological Buffering � Pests and Diseases less chance � less pesticide treatments

Biodiversity for resilient crops in the 21st century 2) Improve biodiverse Crop Microbiome 1 ) Enlarge Genetic Biodiverse Crops Around the roots (rhizomicrobiome) Resistance/resilience breeding � • • Within de plant (endophytes new resilient varieties • community) Gene editing (awaken R genes, • On the leaves (Phyllomicrobiome) knock out helper genes for • Around seeds and plantlets infection) � present varieties more • � Biodiversity of the ‘good’ microbiomes resilient prevent the ‘bad’ pathogens � More biodiverse resilient varieties Resilient Plants And Cropping systems 3) Cropping Systems biodiversity Resilient biodiverse soils • Biodiverse mosaics of crops within • the field Supporting natural diversity within • the field Supporting natural diversity around • the cropping field � Biodiversity give Pests/Diseases less chance

How can Artemis contribute ? Motto Artemis: “Biology as basic mindset in indoor- and outdoor cropping sytems” And... Artemis believes : “that application of Biological Products is essential to obtain the required biological buffering in culture systems”

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? . A mature innovative industry

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? A large variety of Biocontrol Products , supporting Biological Buffering

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? Biostimulants: in between fertilizers en crop protection A large variety of Biostimulant products, supporting Biological Buffering

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? Resilience is possible in practice in 25 years products of Artemis members made Biocontrol THE way of ‘green’ crop protection in greenhouses

Resilience visions for 2030 also by government, LTO, sectors, stakeholders

Biological products ESSENTIAL for Resilience Vision 2030 Government vision 2030: Contribution by Artemis: • Resilient varieties: Induction of resilience genes with BS • Resilient seeds: Seed coating with BS/BC • Resilient plants: Supporting microbiome by BS • Resilient crops: Improving buffering capacity by BS/BC • Resilient cropping systems: Standing-Army in/around cropping fields All, still needs to be developed; hard work till 2030 by all stakeholders!

3 strategic challenges has Artemis formulated Development Knowledge and Awareness Communication and Profiling Faster and more simplified registration

Development Knowledge and Awareness Example: new BC/BS for seed coating to enrich microbiome? Three main questions to be solved: 1) Can Microbiome composition in seeds be changed/improved and can Microbiome functions be optimized? 2) Can coatings by BS/BC enhance Microbiome compositions/functions, and how to select these BS/BC? 3) How can current Seed disinfection strategies be made compatible with non-destruction of Microbiome and BS/BC enhancers? Artemis likes to collaborate to solve these questions

Development Knowledge and Awareness Example: pilots with growers to experiment with BS/BC with focus on outside cultures (now less than 1% Biological products used ) - Invite groups of growers to join (vegetables, flower bulbs, fruit trees, arables) - Design together a resilience system on their farms - Include all available and pipeline BS/BC products and knowledge from Artemis members and other advisors (Agrodis, Delfy, Nefyto) - A long term joint learning by doing until 2030 Artemis likes to collaborate in such pilots

Together... Crop protection becomes Resilience... ...with Biology central... ...is sustainable

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