Protecting plants against fungal pathogens

植物病害在加拿大油菜籽生产中日益成为问题，导致产量下降和经济损失。虽然目前的管理工具包括通常有效的种剂和叶面杀菌剂，但有时缺乏施用时间和具体的作用方式。因此，有必要更好地了解如何开发新的种子处理化学物质来保护植物免受破坏性真菌病原体的侵害。此外，提高植物抗病能力是一项理想的长期战略，但已被证明极难实现，特别是涉及多种疾病生物体时。拜耳作物科学致力于通过开发新的作物保护技术，为油菜籽种植者提供长期解决方案，以管理植物病害。这个Engage Plus项目的目的是更好地了解为油菜提供保护的遗传机制，使其免受加拿大一些最普遍的真菌病原体的侵害。从该项目中获得的信息将使拜耳作物科学公司能够改进实验化合物和新油菜品种的化学选择程序，从而缩短将创新产品推向市场所需的时间。

Plant diseases are becoming increasingly problematic in Canadian canola production resulting in reduced yieldsand economic losses. While current management tools include seed applied and foliar fungicides that are ofteneffective, timing of application, and their specific mode of action is sometimes lacking. Thus, there is a need tobetter understand how new seed treatment chemistries can be developed to protect plants from devastatingfungal pathogens. Further, improving plant resistance to disease is a desirable long-term strategy but hasproven extremely difficult to achieve, especially when multiple disease organisms are involved. BayerCropScience is committed to providing canola growers with long-term solutions to manage plant diseasethrough the development of new crop protection technologies. The aim of this Engage Plus project is to betterunderstand the genetic mechanisms that provide protection to canola against some of Canada's most prevalentfungal pathogens. The information gained from this project will allow Bayer CropScience to improvechemistry selection programs for experimental compounds and new canola varieties, and thereby shortening thetime it takes to bring innovative products to the market.