(projectleider)
Targeted precision biocontrol and pollination enhancement in organic cropping systems (BICOPOLL)
Themes
Crop protection
Kind
project
Type
fundamental
applied
Runtime
–
Body
Organic berry and fruit production suffers heavily from the lack of effective disease and pest management tools, and from inadequate insect pollination at times. As a consequence, the expanding demand on organic berries cannot be filled today. BICOPOLL expects to change this, and to significantly improve the yield and quality of organic fruit and berry production and thus, farm economics. We will use bees to (i) target deliver biological control agents to the flowers of the target crops to provide control of problem diseases (or pests), and to (ii) improve the pollination of organic horticultural crops. BICOPOLL will provide a pan-European case study on protecting organic strawberry from its most important disease, the grey mould. In addition we will (iii) improve the efficiency of the entomovector technology via innovative research on bee management, manipulation of bee behaviour, components of the cropping system, and on the plant-pathogen-vector-antagonist-system, and will investigate (iv) possibilities of expanding the use of the concept into other organic berry and fruit growing systems. This is a highly innovative approach to solving some of the most difficult disease and pest problems in organic berry and fruit production, offering solutions in areas where no solutions as yet exist. The entomovector approach represents the only significant breakthrough in sight for improving plant protection in organic cropping systems, particularly in high-value crops. BICOPOLL brings together for the first time the fragmented research in the area.
Research institute
Financier
Departement Landbouw en Visserij, Afdeling Duurzame landbouw ontwikkeling in kader van CORE Organic II ERA-NET (7 EU Framework)
References
Referenties projectconsortium:
Boecking, Otto and Kreipe, Victoria (2014) BICOPOLL - Targeted precision biocontrol and pollination enhancement in organic cropping systems. [BICOPOLL - Zielgenaue biologische Krankheitsbekämpfung und Verbesserung der Bestäubung in ökologischen Anbausystemen.] Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Institut für Bienenkunde, D-Celle.
Hokkanen, Heikki; Boecking, Otto; Cokl, Andrej; Cotes, Belen; Eken, Cafer; Karise, Reet; Krajl, Jasna; Maccagnani, Bettina; Menzler-Hokkanen, Ingeborg; Mommaerts, Veerle; Mänd, Marika; Smagghe, Guy; Söderlund, Niklas; Tuncer, Serdar; Veromann, Eve and Witzgall, Peter (2012) Targeted precision biocontrol and enhanced pollination. In: XXIV International Congress of Entomology "New Era in Entomology", p. 126.
Karise, Reet and Mänd, Marika (2013) Prestop Mix might raise the water loss rate of foraging bumble bees. In: Proceedings of the 65th International Symposium on Crop Protection, p. 124.
Karise, Reet; Muljar, Riin and Mänd, Marika (2014) Kaolin as inert material in bio-pesticide formulations supplements the hazard to useful insects. In: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference of Apidology EURBEE, p. 64.
Karise, Reet; Muljar, Riin; Smagghe, Guy; Kaart, Tanel; Kuusik, Aare; Dreyersdorff, Gerit; Williams, Ingrid and Mänd, Marika (2015) Sublethal effects of kaolin and the biopesticides Prestop-Mix and BotaniGard on metabolic rate, water loss and longevity in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris). Journal of Pest Science, 02, 00-00.
Kreipe, Victoria and Boecking, Otto (2013) Flying doctors zur Grauschimmel Bekämpfung und als Bestäuber im ökologischen Erdbeeranbau - erste Untersuchungsergebnisse im BICOPOLL Projekt. In: Apidologie , Springer, 44, p. 6.
Maccagnani, B.; Ferrari, R. and Pozzati, M. (2013) ECOLOGICAL Infrastructure Management Enhanced Pollination and Targeted Precision Biocontrol: The BICOPOLL Project. BULLETIN OF INSECTOLOGY, 66 (1), p. 26.
Maccagnani, B.; Ferrari, R. and Pozzati, M. (2013) Ecological Infrastructure Management for Enhanced Pollination and Targeted Precision Biocontrol. Poster at: Symposium, Bologna, 29 May-2 June 2013.
Mänd, Marika and Karise, Reet (2013) Bumble bees as entomovectors in open fields of strawberry. In: Proceedings of the 65th International Symposium on Crop Protection, p. 122.
Mänd, Marika; Karise, Reet and Muljar, Riin (2013) Bombus terrestris as an entomovector for suppressing Botrytis cinerea in open field strawberry. Poster at: International conference “Behaviour 2013”, The Sage, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK, 04–08.08.2013.
Menzler-Hokkanen, I.; Hokkanen, Heikki; Maccagnani, B.; Lahdenperä, Marja-Leena; Mommaerts, Veerle; Smagghe, Guy; Karise, Reet; Muljar, Riin and Mänd, Marika (2013) Entomovectored biocontrol of strawberry grey mould shows promise Europe-wide. In: Proceedings of the 65th International Symposium on Crop Protection, p. 40.
Muljar, Riin (2011) Using honey bees to disseminate the biocontrol agent Gliocladium catenulatum J1446 to strawberries for grey mould control. Speech at: 28th Nordic-Baltic Apicultural Research Symposium, the Nordic-Baltic Bee-Council and Estonian Beekeepers Winter days, Tartu, Estonia, 04–06.02.2011.
Muljar, Riin; Karise, Reet; Veromann, Eve and Mänd, Marika (2013) The effect of biofungicide Prestop Mix on metabolic rate, water loss and longevity of bumblebee Bombus terrestris L. Poster at: International conference „Agroforum Balticum - Food and Agricultural Potential of the European Region“, Tartu, Estonia, 17–19.04.2013.
Muljar, Riin; Karise, Reet; Veromann, Eve and Mänd, Marika (2013) The effect of biofungicide Prestop Mix on respiration, water loss and longevity of bumblebee Bombus terrestris L. In: Book of Abstracts of the Future IPM in Europe, p. 57.
Muljar, Riin and Mänd, Marika (2011) Bees as entomovectors and the biological control agent Gliocladium catenulatum J1446. Poster at: Next generation insights into geosciences and ecology, Tartu, Estonia, 12–13.05.2011.
Muljar, Riin and Mänd, Marika (2011) Effect of Gliocladium catenulatum J1446 to the respiration rate of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris. Poster at: VIIth International Conference on Arthropods, Bialka Tatrzanska, Poland, 18–23.09.2011.
Muljar, Riin and Mänd, Marika (2011) Using honey bees to disseminate the biocontrol agent Gliocladium catenulatum J1446 to strawberries for Botrytis cinerea control. In: Proceedings of the 28th Nordic-Baltic Apicultural Research Symposium, pp. 29-30.
Muljar, Riin; Mänd, Marika; Karise, Reet and Smagghe, Guy (2014) The effect of kaolin and the microbial biopesticides Prestop Mix and BotaniGard on respiratory physiology and longevity of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris L.). Speech at: 12th International Symposium: Hazards of Pesticides to Bees, Ghent, Belgium, 15–17.09.2014.