Predatory protists: natural weapons for soil-borne pathogen control

掠食性原生生物：控制土传病原体的天然武器

• 批准号: DP240101821
• 负责人: Dr Hangwei Hu
• 金额: $ 35.46万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP240101821
• 关键词: Predatory; protists; natural; weapons; soil

This project aims to understand the mechanistic interactions of predatory protists and fungal pathogens and develop innovative biotechnologies using the protists to suppress soil-borne pathogens. By directly preying on fungal pathogens or activating plant-beneficial bacteria to combat them, the soil predatory protists will be identified, cultivated and utilised to improve disease management. Expected outcomes of this project will include a mechanistic understanding of the contribution of protists to pathogen suppression and an innovative, protist-based disease management tool. The novel technologies developed in this project have potentials to benefit Australian agriculture and land management.

该项目旨在了解捕食性原生生物和真菌病原体之间的相互作用机制，并开发利用原生生物抑制土传病原体的创新生物技术。通过直接捕食真菌病原体或激活对植物有益的细菌来对抗它们，土壤捕食性原生生物将被识别、培养和利用，以改善疾病管理。该项目的预期成果将包括对原生生物对病原体抑制的贡献的机械理解以及基于原生生物的创新疾病管理工具。该项目开发的新技术有可能使澳大利亚农业和土地管理受益。