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
Further documents and links
Publications
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PhageFire : formulation of a bacteriophage-based biopesticide against Erwinia amylovora
2022 Kammerecker, Sandrine; Gayder, Steven; Gervásio, Kellen; Henriques, André; Torres-Cortés, Gloria; Kőrösiné Papp, Szilvia; Kovács, Tamás; Raffai, Krisztina; Cabezón Largas, Sixto; de Santos Prieto, Borja; Fieseler, Lars
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A qPCR-based, population dynamics approach for the development of a bacteriophage-based biopesticide
2022 Gayder, Steven; Kammerecker, Sandrine; Gervásio, Kellen; Henriques, André; Torres-Cortés, Gloria; Kőrösiné Papp, Szilvia; Kovács, Tamás; Raffai, Krisztina; Cabezón Largas, Sixto; de Santos Prieto, Borja; Fieseler, Lars
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A novel genome-wide, qPCR-based approach to identify genetic determinants of phage host range
2022 Gayder, Steven; Fieseler, Lars; Castle, Alan; Svircev, Antonet