Plant Protection

植物保护主席的总体目标是整合科学知识和成就，以开发和实施对生物和环境友好的杀虫剂替代品。为了实现这一目标，主要开展了四个方面的研究：1)开发和研究生防剂作为杀菌剂的生物替代品；2)破译和利用硅作为缓解植物生物胁迫的天然途径的预防特性；3)开发新的基因组工具以提高大豆对大豆疫霉的抗性；4)促进和实施我们实验室开展的研究的技术转移。在过去的七年里，我们坚持了我们最初的目标，我们的研究虽然以其创新和健全的科学方法而受到认可，但也直接导致了控制植物疾病的新的生物学方法，这些方法正在被商业利用。

The Chair in plant protection has for general objective the integration of scientific knowledge and achievements toward the development and implementation of biological and environment-friendly alternatives to pesticides. In order to fulfill this objective, four main areas of research are targeted: 1) to develop and study biocontrol agents as biological substitutes to fungicides 2) to decipher and exploit the prophylactic properties of silicon as a natural approach to alleviate biotic stresses in plants; 3) to develop new genomic tools to increase soybean resistance to Phytophthora sojae and 4) to foster and implement the technological transfer of the research carried out in our laboratory. Over the last seven years, we have adhered quite closely to our initial objectives, and our research, while being recognized for its innovative and sound scientific approach, has led directly to new biological approaches to control plant diseases that are being exploited commercially.