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Crop Protection in the 21st Century: Era of Biology

Piet M. Boonekamp Seed meets Technology, Zwaagdijk 26 Sept. 2019

Challenges Crop Protection in the 21st century From successful Chemical control towards more ‘Green’ Crop protection, while:

• More production is needed for increasing population
• Unpredictable Climate Change effects might jeopardize stable

yields ...and present ‘green’ solutions are more risky

Paradigm change:More Resilient Plants and Systems needed

in 21st century:

• Now: most Crop protection is reactive

Diseases occur and need to be treated (chemical/biological/physical)

• Future: proactive: towards resilient plants and systems

Less chances for pests and diseases!!

2030: Towards Resilient Plants and Cropping Systems

By Biodiversity (and Technology) Biological Buffering Pests and Diseases less chance less pesticide treatments

Biodiversity for resilient crops in the 21st century

Resilient Plants And Cropping systems

1) Enlarge Genetic Biodiverse Crops

• Resistance/resilience breeding

new resilient varieties

• Gene editing (awaken R genes,

knock out helper genes for infection) present varieties more resilient More biodiverse resilient varieties 3) Cropping Systems biodiversity

• Resilient biodiverse soils
• Biodiverse mosaics of crops within

the field

• Supporting natural diversity within

the field

• Supporting natural diversity around

the cropping field Biodiversity give Pests/Diseases less chance 2) Improve biodiverse Crop Microbiome

• Around the roots (rhizomicrobiome)
• Within de plant (endophytes

community)

• On the leaves (Phyllomicrobiome)
• Around seeds and plantlets

Biodiversity of the ‘good’ microbiomes prevent the ‘bad’ pathogens

How can Artemis contribute ?

Motto Artemis: “Biology as basic mindset in indoor- and

• utdoor cropping sytems”

Artemis believes: “that application of Biological Products is essential to obtain the required biological buffering in culture systems”

And...

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What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? A mature innovative industry

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? A large variety of Biocontrol Products, supporting Biological Buffering

Biostimulants: in between fertilizers en crop protection

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? A large variety of Biostimulant products, supporting Biological Buffering

in 25 years products of Artemis members made Biocontrol THE way of ‘green’ crop protection in greenhouses

What can Artemis contribute to vision 2030? Resilience is possible in practice

Resilience visions for 2030 also by government, LTO, sectors, stakeholders

Government vision 2030: Contribution by Artemis:

• Resilient varieties:

Induction of resilience genes with BS

• Resilient seeds:

Seed coating with BS/BC

• Resilient plants:

Supporting microbiome by BS

• Resilient crops:

Improving buffering capacity by BS/BC

• Resilient cropping systems:

Standing-Army in/around cropping fields

Biological products ESSENTIAL for Resilience Vision 2030

All, still needs to be developed; hard work till 2030 by all stakeholders!

3 strategic challenges has Artemis formulated Faster and more simplified registration Communication and Profiling Development Knowledge and Awareness

Example: new BC/BS for seed coating to enrich microbiome?

Development Knowledge and Awareness Three main questions to be solved: 1) Can Microbiome composition in seeds be changed/improved and can Microbiome functions be optimized? 2) Can coatings by BS/BC enhance Microbiome compositions/functions, and how to select these BS/BC? 3) How can current Seed disinfection strategies be made compatible with non-destruction of Microbiome and BS/BC enhancers? Artemis likes to collaborate to solve these questions

Example: pilots with growers to experiment with BS/BC with focus on outside cultures (now less than 1% Biological products used)

Development Knowledge and Awareness

• Invite groups of growers to join (vegetables, flower bulbs, fruit

trees, arables)

• Design together a resilience system on their farms
• Include all available and pipeline BS/BC products and knowledge

from Artemis members and other advisors (Agrodis, Delfy, Nefyto)

• A long term joint learning by doing until 2030

Artemis likes to collaborate in such pilots

Together... Crop protection becomes Resilience... ...with Biology central... ...is sustainable

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