Newton Fund - Novel Agricultural Bioactives from Microalgae

牛顿基金 - 来自微藻的新型农业生物活性物质

• 批准号: 102732
• 金额: $ 43.54万
• 依托单位: PROTEIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=102732
• 关键词: Newton; Fund; Novel; Agricultural; Bioactives

Since the1950s the use of chemical fertilers has grown exponentially to cope with the increased consumption of food. The use of chemical fertilsers has led to contamination, disease prone plants, reduction of microbial organisms that support soil life, etc. On the other hand organic fertilizers improve soil structure, improve water retention, enhance soil fertility and can be easily broken down by microorganisms. Although, methods to increase the organic fertilizer use have been looked into for the last few decades, the cost of production, the amounts needed to sustain the growing population and technological innovations are lagging behind tocompete and replace chemical fertilser use. Biulding on previous work by this consortium, here we propose theuse of microalgae, an ancestor of land plants,as a sustainable source of high value organic compounds that helpcrop growth; microalgae simply require natural sunlight and water to grow. The aim of this project is to identifythe compounds responsible for the increased plant growth and then to extract them. In this manner we havecontol of the exact amount of organic compound required for maximum crop growth.

自20世纪50年代以来，化肥的使用呈指数级增长，以应对日益增长的食物消费。化肥的使用导致了污染、容易生病的植物、支持土壤生命的微生物减少等。另一方面，有机肥改善了土壤结构，改善了水分，提高了土壤肥力，而且很容易被微生物分解。尽管过去几十年来一直在研究增加有机肥使用的方法，但生产成本、维持不断增长的人口所需的数量以及技术创新都落后于竞争和取代化肥的使用。在该联盟之前工作的基础上，我们建议使用陆地植物的祖先微藻作为帮助作物生长的高价值有机化合物的可持续来源；微藻只需要自然阳光和水就可以生长。该项目的目的是识别导致植物生长增加的化合物，然后提取它们。通过这种方式，我们控制了作物最大限度生长所需的有机化合物的确切数量。