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DOMCA participates in the European project BIOVEXO, which aims to develop biopesticides compatible with organic farming that deal with the pathogen and the vector that spreads it in an integrated pest management strategy.
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La Xylella fastidiosa
Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterium that can cause the disappearance of more than 70% of olive production in the European Union and significantly reduce almond and fruit tree plantations. EFSA considers it as one of the main threats to European agriculture.
La Xylella fastidiosa is transmitted by insect vectors that feed on xylem fluid. The bacterium colonises the xylem vessels of the plant, which blocks the uptake of nutrients and water essential for plant health. Once this occurs, the severe symptoms of Xylella, which often lead to the death of the plant.
The spread of the Xylella fastidiosa has increased rapidly in southern Europe, damaging and destroying entire olive groves and almond orchards. One of the worst affected regions in Europe is Puglia in southern Italy, where olive production has decreased by 65% to 80%. Centenary olive trees more than 400 years old have been destroyed and it is estimated that more than 100,000 jobs have been lost.
Other countries where the pest has arrived are Spain, Portugal and France. In Spain, the pest is present in the Balearic regions, where it mainly affects olive and almond crops, and in the Valencian Community, where hundreds of hectares of almond trees are affected.
To date, there is no solution on the market to combat the devastation caused by the Xylella.
Learn more about the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa in our blog.
The BIOVEXO consortium
The consortium consists of eleven partners, including leading research centres such as CNR (Centro di Ricerca “Basile Caramia” Bari, Italy, University of Seville, Spain, the Austrian research centre AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology), the University of Antwerp (Belgium), as well as the companies GLOBACHEM (Belgium), AIMERIT (Mallorca, Spain) and ACIES BIO (Slovenia), the Young Farmers' Association ASAJA and the Austrian consultancy RTDS, coordinator of the project.
A total of 5 countries are involved in this project: Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium and Slovenia.
In total, the project involves 3 SMEs, one large company, one consultancy and four universities/research centres.
The project work will run for 5 years, from May 2020 to April 2025, and includes small and large scale field trials on crops affected by the pest in olive and almond trees. Xylella from a curative and preventive approach and by attacking the pathogen and the vector.
Biopesticides against Xylella
DOMCA will develop solutions based on plant extracts using by-products from the food industry in a circular economy strategy and biocontrol strains with efficacy against other pathogens. In this case, DOMCA is developing biopesticides based on plant extracts and microorganisms that are compatible with organic farming. In a first stage, the efficacy has been tested in vitro of these biopesticides against the bacterium, to later test them in different formulations for small- and large-scale trials in affected fields.
Project structure
The project is structured in 8 work packages:
- Biopesticides-X for the control of Xylella bacteria
- Biopesticides-V for the control of the vector of Xylella propagation
- Formulation and scale-up of biopesticides
- Large-scale validation and integrated control strategies
- Mode of action of biopesticides against target organisms
- Sustainability and toxicity of developed products
- Dissemination, exploitation and communication
- Project management
DOMCA is responsible for the coordination of work packages 1 and 3, i.e. the work related to the development of biopesticides with antagonistic capacity against the bacteria and small-scale trials, as well as the development of formulations and their scale-up and production.
On the other hand, the Belgian company Globachem, a specialist in developing biopesticides against insect vectors, is in charge of coordinating work packages 2 and 6, while the research centre CNR is coordinating the large-scale trials and the integrated control strategy included in work package 4. AIT, the Austrian research centre, is responsible for leading work package 5, on the mode of action of the developed biopesticides, and the Vienna-based consultancy RTDS, the coordinator, is in charge of managing the cross-cutting work packages on dissemination of results and project management.
Bio Based Industries
BIOVEXO is an Innovation Action (IA) of the BBI (Bio-Based Industries) call of Horizon 2020 and has a budget of 8,025,112.41 € of which 6,612,227.48 € corresponds to European funding.
The Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), now called CBE-JU (Circular Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking) is an initiative of the Horizon 2020 (now Horizon Europe) Framework Programme, which includes a Public-Private Partnership between the European Union (EU) and the Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC).
The overall objective of the BBI JU is to reduce Europe's dependence on fossil fuels, and to develop a bioeconomy capable of achieving new bio-based products and value chains. The key to this lies in the promotion of new biorefineries that can transform renewable natural resources into bio-based products, materials and fuels. All this to mitigate the effects of climate change and transform the European economy into a more environmentally friendly economy.
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Information material
Updated information on the project can be found on the project website: http://www.biovexo.eu
We have also published information on the pest on our blog. Xylella and what solutions are being implemented today.
In addition, you can visit the project's social networks for updated information on the work we are carrying out at BIOVEXO and everything related to Xylella fastidiosa.
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