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.

本项目旨在了解掠夺性原生生物与真菌病原体的相互作用机制，并利用原生生物开发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，土壤掠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作用的机制理解，以及一种创新的、基于原生生物的疾病管理工具。在这个项目中开发的新技术有潜力造福澳大利亚的农业和土地管理。