SYIELD:Networked Mimic Sensors for Crop Enhancement & Disease Control

该项目将使种植者能够用更少的投入生产更多的粮食，通过一个综合的农场管理战略，优化作物保护（CP）化学品的行动模式，该战略基于当地农场的田间生物传感器网络，然后连接起来形成英国和国际基础设施。理想情况下，但并非完全如此，这将与CP化学的一个子集提供的疾病控制和作物增强的双重作用相结合。宿主/病原体相互作用背后的科学将被利用来设计环境耐受模拟表面，这将诱骗病原体在传感器墨盒上发芽。这将在散装作物病害进展的同时或之前发生。模拟表面，结合检测病原体的特定因素，将形成生物传感器特异性的基础。早期应用将与先正达的双模Amistar化学技术相结合，用于对抗英国油菜（OSR）的菌核病。英国科技公司将制造现场节点，其中包含一次性传感器盒，微型空气采样器，智能接口电子设备和OEM电信模块。这些将与卫星作物使用数据一起连接到一个地理信息系统门户网站，作为商业服务提供给；农民、农学家、政府和其他农业食品利益相关者。传感器网络和CP化学的这种整合为种植者树立了一个全球先例，使他们目前的投资回报率提高6-7倍，而农民没有察觉到成本，在1/3的OSR农场保守采用后，相应的英国生产力每年增加1640万。

The project will enable growers to produce more food from fewer inputs, through an integrated farm management strategy which optimises the mode-of-action for Crop Protection (CP) chemistries based upon local farm networks of in-field biosensors which then connect to form a UK, and international, INFRASTRUCTURE. Ideally, but not exclusively, this will be combined with the dual action DISEASE CONTROL and CROP ENHANCEMENT offered by a subset of CP chemistries. The science behind host / pathogen interaction will be exploited to engineer environmentally tolerant mimic surfaces which will trick the pathogen into germination on the sensor cartridge. This will occur at the same time or in advance of the disease progress in the bulk crop. The mimic surface, in conjunction with detection of specific factors from the pathogen, will form the basis of the biosensor specificity. Early adoption will be against Sclerotinia in UK Oil Seed Rape (OSR) integrated with Syngenta's dual-mode Amistar chemistry. UK technology companies will manufacture the in-field nodes, which house the disposable sensor cartridge, micro air-sampler, intelligent interface electronics & OEM telecoms modules. These will link, alongside satellite crop-usage data, to a GIS web portal accessible as a commercial service to; farmers, agronomists, government and other agri-food stakeholders. This integration of SENSOR-NETWORK and CP chemistries sets a global precedent for growers to increase their current ROI by 6-7 times at NO PERCEPTIBLE COST TO FARMERS, with corresponding additional UK productivity of 16.4M p.a. following a conservative adoption by 1/3rd of OSR farms.