NextGenBioPest : Next Generation Biopesticides for the control of the most “difficult-to-manage” pests and pathogens in fruits and vegetables

植物病虫害危害农业生产，危害粮食安全。它们的控制严重依赖于使用合成杀虫剂，导致对环境产生负面影响。因此，开发控制病虫害和病原体的新方法对于保障人类健康和应对在减少化学农药使用的同时提高作物产量的挑战至关重要。NextGenBioPest项目的总体目标是通过提供新颖和改进的产品、方法和实践来满足这一需求，从而合理控制最难管理的节肢动物害虫和病原体，同时大幅减少农药的使用。该项目将为主要蔬菜和水果作物的植物保护提供一个新的工具包，包括病虫害和病原体鉴定和鉴定的诊断、新型生物防治剂和提高其田间性能的方法、基于rna的农药、低风险/绿色化学品、植物抗性诱导剂和创新的农艺和生态实践。这些创新将与现有方法相结合，以实现有效、环境友好和可持续的作物保护。它们将在大型实地研究中得到验证，并评估其效率和社会经济影响。示范领域、广泛的培训和现代化的有针对性的沟通渠道将使利益攸关方和最终用户能够适当地传播和吸收成果。数据保护和商业化战略将确保它们的利用。这些目标将通过将领先的机构和工业合作伙伴与害虫防治项目的推动者结合起来实现。这个多学科、多参与者的团队将利用他们不同的专业知识、广泛的初步数据和资源以及强大的网络来实现项目目标，并确保所产生的知识和工具产生经济、生态和社会影响。

Plant pests and pathogens damage agricultural production and endanger food security. Their control relies heavily on the use of synthetic insecticides, leading to a negative environmental impact. Developing new methods for pest and pathogen control is therefore essential to safeguard human health and meet the challenge of increasing crop yields, while reducing the use of chemical pesticides. The overarching objective of the NextGenBioPest project is to meet this need by delivering novel and improved products, methods, and practices for the rational control of the most difficult-to-manage arthropod pests and pathogens, with substantially reduced pesticide use. The project will provide a new toolkit for plant protection in key vegetable and fruit crops including diagnostics for pest and pathogen identification and incrimination, novel Biological Control Agents and methods to augment their performance in the field, RNA-based pesticides, Low Risk/Green chemicals, plant resistance inducers and innovative agronomic and ecological practices. These innovations will be integrated with existing approaches, to achieve effective, environment friendly and sustainable crop protection. They will be validated in large field studies, with both their efficiency and socioeconomic impact assessed. Demonstration fields, extensive training and modern targeted communication channels, will enable the appropriate dissemination and uptake of the outcomes to the stakeholders and end users. Data protection and commercialization strategies will ensure their exploitation. These goals will be achieved by integrating leading institutional and industrial partners with drivers of pest control programs. The multidisciplinary and multi-actor team will exploit their diverse expertise, access to extensive preliminary data and resources, and strong networks, to meet the project objectives and ensure the knowledge and tools generated deliver economic, ecological and societal impact.