CEA Heirloom Optimisation & Pathogen Control for Seeds (CHOPS)

CEA 传家宝优化

• 批准号: 55310
• 金额: $ 80.27万
• 依托单位: VERTICAL FUTURE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Study
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=55310
• 关键词: CEA; Heirloom; Optimisation; Pathogen; Control

Conventional and organic agriculture are highly dependent on various agro-chemicals to ensure that field grown crops are free from disease and satisfy production volume needs. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) has moved growing crops for consumption away from fields and the disease pressures that come from the open air and soils. This has massively reduced the need for agro-chemicals but there is still some way to go.It is still uneconomical to produce seeds in CEA facilities and so these are produced outside. The result is that the outer shell of the seed is now the main source of diseases that enter CEA production. When a disease takes hold in CEA, it can be devastating as the conditions that a plant thrives in, are the same as those a fungus or bacteria will. It is possible to treat seeds with agro-chemicals to remove these pathogens, but that is not desirable for both environmental and consumer driven needs. One of the focuses of our project is to scale up and further develop a non-chemical seed pre-treatment method that uses only air and electricity to kill any fungi or bacteria on the surface of the seed without harming the embryonic plant contained within it.Reducing the disease pressure isn't all that is needed. As many crops have been extensively bred and selected for field growth, the key characteristics that breeders have focused on are generally to make the plant resistant to diseases which reduces crop losses for the farmer. As these characteristics are less important to CEA, we can take this opportunity to select varieties that have better characteristics for the grower and the consumer such as higher yielding, more nutrient dense varieties. We will do this by carrying out crop trials as well as using DNA sequencing techniques to allow us to pinpoint molecular signposts in the genetic code of CEA suitable varieties. By looking at the DNA, we will be able to translate our discoveries in spinach into other plants more easily.When these two approaches are combined, a more nutritious, CEA focused crop can be grown free from threat of disease and use of agro-chemicals.The advances made within the project will also benefit the UK economy as well as the consumer as the partners that have come together also market technology and solutions to the global agricultural industry.

传统农业和有机农业高度依赖各种农用化学品，以确保田间种植的作物没有病害并满足产量需求。受控环境农业（CEA）已经将用于消费的作物种植从田地和来自露天和土壤的疾病压力中转移出来。这大大减少了对农用化学品的需求，但还有一段路要走。在CEA设施中生产种子仍然不经济，因此这些种子在外面生产。结果是，种子的外壳现在是进入CEA生产的疾病的主要来源。当一种疾病在CEA中扎根时，它可能是毁灭性的，因为植物茁壮成长的条件与真菌或细菌的条件相同。可以用农用化学品处理种子以去除这些病原体，但这对于环境和消费者驱动的需求都是不期望的。我们项目的重点之一是扩大和进一步开发一种非化学种子预处理方法，这种方法只使用空气和电力来杀死种子表面的任何真菌或细菌，而不伤害其中包含的胚胎植物。由于许多作物已被广泛育种和选择用于田间生长，育种者关注的关键特性通常是使植物对疾病具有抗性，从而减少农民的作物损失。由于这些特性对CEA不太重要，我们可以借此机会选择对种植者和消费者具有更好特性的品种，例如产量更高，营养更密集的品种。我们将通过进行作物试验以及使用DNA测序技术来实现这一点，以使我们能够在CEA合适品种的遗传密码中找到分子标志。通过观察DNA，我们将能够更容易地将我们在菠菜中的发现转化为其他植物。当这两种方法结合起来时，以CEA为重点的作物可以在没有疾病威胁的情况下种植，该项目所取得的进展也将有利于英国经济以及消费者，因为合作伙伴走到一起也向全球市场推广技术和解决方案。农业产业。