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PhageFire – An effective and environmentally friendly solution to control fire blight disease caused by Erwinia amylovora in pome fruit crops

Description

The PhageFire project is devised to satisfy the unmet need for a secure and reliable solution to control fire blight (FB) disease in pome fruits caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora (Ea). The Spanish pome fruit producer, Peras de Rincón de Soto has partnered with Enviroinvest (Hungary) consultancy company expert in production, authorization and commercialization of phage-based pesticides, ZHAW (Switzerland) – a top research centre in phage therapy and Kimitec Group specialist in the design, development and commercialization of natural solutions for the plant protection sector. Together, PhageFire Consortium members aim to further develop an integrated phage-based solution enabling pome fruit farmers to effectively control Ea infections, reducing both production and economic losses. In addition, this will also result on reduced reliance on harmful chemicals (mainly copper-based products) and antibiotics.

Key Data

Projectlead

Sixto Cabezón Largas, Prof. Dr. Lars Fieseler, Dr. Tamas Kovacs, Elena Latrado Camello

Project team

Sandrine Kammerecker, Dr. Marjan Veljkovic

Project partners

D.O.P. Peras de Rincón de Soto; Kimitec Biogroup SL; Enviroinvest Zrt.

Project status

completed, 10/2020 - 04/2023

Funding partner

Horizon 2020 / Projekt Nr. 958645