UK-China Agritech Challenge: Environmentally Benign Combination Biopesticides - Transforming Pest Control in Chinese and UK Agriculture

中英农业科技挑战赛：环境友好的组合生物农药——改变中国和英国农业的害虫防治

• 批准号: BB/S02087X/1
• 负责人: Philip Stevenson
• 金额: $ 53.16万
• 依托单位: University of Greenwich
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FS02087X%2F1
• 关键词: UK; China; Agritech; Challenge; Environmentally

Environmentally benign fungal pathogens and naturally insecticidal plant extracts could offer a sustainable alternative to synthetic chemical pesticides. Fungal control does not have many of the problems associated with conventional control such as pest resistance, toxicity to humans and persistence in the environment. One downside to such a technology is that it can be slow acting to achieve effective control. The aim of this project is to create a formulation combining fungal pathogens with the pesticidal plant extracts to create effective pest control with two non-synthetic control agents. This solution will be applicable in developing countries such as China where the materials can be locally produced. Creating a new product with these technologies may confer additional benefits as the modes of action may work in synergy to achieve greater pest control with less material required. Additional benefits to using these biopesticides would be the stimulation the growth of this market, provision of safer working conditions, creating job opportunities and allowing local growers to receive a greater return for their produce by conforming to EU regulations on pesticide use. We anticipate that this will have considerable benefits for the ecosystems in which they are applied due to reduced impacts on non-target insects such as pollinators.From a scientific and cultural perspective this would open-up opportunities for other pathogen-botanical extract formulations to be developed and increase awareness of alternative solutions in pest control, encouraging growers and industry to move away from synthetic chemical control.The project will involve laboratory testing of the plant extracts and fungal pathogens for potentially synergistic, antagonistic or additive effects when controlling pest populations, formulated blends of plant extracts with the fungal pathogen in a concentration identified as effective in laboratory assays and field testing on crops in China. In field and laboratory testing the incidence of target pests, damage caused and the impact on beneficial insects (i.e. pollinators and natural enemies of the pests) will be monitored.A report will be prepared with a plan for future research required and a plan for the exploitation of this new technology. The project will be a collaboration between the Natural Resources Institute and Eurorganic Ltd in the UK and Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University and Jiangxi Tian-Ren Ltd in China.

对环境无害的真菌病原体和天然杀虫植物提取物可以为合成化学农药提供可持续的替代品。真菌控制不存在与传统控制相关的许多问题，例如害虫抗性、对人类的毒性以及在环境中的持久性。这种技术的一个缺点是它实现有效控制的速度可能很慢。该项目的目的是创建一种将真菌病原体与杀虫植物提取物相结合的配方，以使用两种非合成防治剂实现有效的害虫防治。该解决方案将适用于中国等可以本地生产材料的发展中国家。利用这些技术创造新产品可能会带来额外的好处，因为这些作用模式可以协同作用，从而以更少的材料实现更好的害虫控制。使用这些生物农药的额外好处是刺激该市场的增长，提供更安全的工作条件，创造就业机会，并允许当地种植者通过遵守欧盟农药使用法规来获得更大的产品回报。我们预计，这将为应用它们的生态系统带来相当大的好处，因为减少了对传粉媒介等非目标昆虫的影响。从科学和文化的角度来看，这将为其他病原体植物提取物制剂的应用提供机会。开发并提高对害虫控制替代解决方案的认识，鼓励种植者和工业界摆脱合成化学控制。该项目将涉及对植物提取物和真菌病原体进行实验室测试，以了解控制害虫种群时潜在的协同、拮抗或相加效应，制定植物提取物与真菌病原体的混合物，其浓度经鉴定在中国的实验室测定和作物田间测试中有效。在现场和实验室测试中，将监测目标害虫的发生率、造成的损害以及对有益昆虫（即害虫的传粉者和天敌）的影响。将编写一份报告，其中包括所需的未来研究计划和未来研究计划利用这项新技术。该项目将由英国自然资源研究所和欧洲有机有限公司以及中国福建农林大学和江西天仁有限公司合作。

项目成果

Complete mitogenome of the entomopathogenic fungus Orbiocrella petchii.

昆虫病原真菌 Orbiocrella petchii 的完整线粒体基因组

• DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1787258
• 发表时间: 2020-07-09
• 期刊: Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources
• 作者: Wang WR;Chen YX;Yan Z;Wei XY;Qiu JZ;Zhang YJ
• 通讯作者: Zhang YJ

Opportunities and Scope for Botanical Extracts and Products for the Management of Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) for Smallholders in Africa.

用于非洲小农草地贪夜蛾管理的植物提取物和产品的机会和范围。

• DOI: 10.3390/plants9020207
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
• 作者: Rioba NB

Bioactivity of Common Pesticidal Plants on Fall Armyworm Larvae (Spodoptera frugiperda)

常见杀虫植物对草地贪夜蛾幼虫（Spodoptera frugiperda）的生物活性

• DOI: 10.3390/plants9010112
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Plants
• 作者: Phambala K