FP5 - LIFE Plant Health - The impact of EU Research (1998-2004)

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2005, EUR 21467, 31 pages, ISBN 92-894-9026-8, Luxembourg, OOPEC.

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This brochure presents the results of an evaluation of 47 research projects on plant and crop health that were funded under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The evaluators' chosen top 15 projects are described in more detail in "Success stories" (pp 15-24). The results of nine of these projects were also presented at a seminar entitled 'EU-funded Pesticide Related Research' at Crop Science and Technology 2004 (Glasgow, UK, 1-3 November1). The lessons and the recommendations resulting from the Evaluation and the seminar discussion are summarised on pages 25-27. Finally, pages 28-31 offer a glimpse of the research projects on plant and crop health in the current Sixth Framework Programme and the future possibilities.

After the formal presentations the participants discussed plant health and crop protection research - present and future - in the European Union. The three points attracting the most discussion were:

• EU-funded research has generated cutting-edge knowledge, both basic and applied, which will contribute substantially to improving crop health and to reducing pesticide use throughout Europe. It was hoped that future Framework Programmes would continue the work. Some pests and diseases pose a future threat to farm crops, others to forest trees and others again to the rural landscape. Experiences with new laboratory methodologies, and with new pests in the field, emphasise the importance to Europe of remaining at the cutting edge.
• The success stories demonstrate the utility of biotechnology and molecular genetics in solving difficult crop protection problems, with no possible threat to the environment. The science enables faster and more accurate diagnosis of pests and diseases. But an infrastructure of reference methods, standards and databases will be needed if the new diagnostic technologies are to be widely adopted.
• Experience of the Western Corn Rootworm, its establishment and spread in Europe, and the unexpected discovery that it can feed and survive on wheat roots and weeds, underlines the importance of reinforcing diagnostics and science-based risk assessment for quarantine pests and pathogens. It may also be timely to look afresh at research aspects of EU quarantine policy, for example to revise lists of quarantine organisms, to develop methodologies for protecting risk and impact of new pests, to strengthen the scientific basis of intervention strategies, to widen the basis of reference collections, working wherever possible in collaboration with partners in countries outside Europe where the pests are already established.

Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Projects under the microscope
• Zooming in
• Success stories (Fifth Framework Programme) In the BCPC showcase
  • EUFRAM" - QLK5-CT-2002-01346
  • DIABROTICA" - QLK5-CT-1999-01110
  • BIOPOSTHARVEST" - QLK5-CT-1999-01065
  • RECOVEG" - QLRT-CT-2000-01458,
  • COMPOST MANAGEMENT" - QLRT-CT-2000-01442
  • FUCOMYR" - QLRT-CT-2000-02044
  • DISCOVAR" - QLK5-CT-1999-01471
  • NONEMA" - QLK5-CT-1999-01501
  • NODO" - QLRT-CT-2000-02445 22
• More successful outcomes
  • APOPHYS" - QLK5-CT-2002-01849
  • BARRACUDA" - QLK5-CT-2002-70866
  • ERWINIA" - QLK5-CT-1999-01583
  • EURICE" - QLK5-CT-1999-01484
  • DEMETRA" - QLK5-CT-2002-00691
  • KARNAL BUNT RISKS" - QLK5-CT-1999-01554
• Lessons and recommendations
• The Sixth Framework Programme and beyond
• ERA-building
• Food Quality and Safety
• Projects (FP6)
  • QualityLowInputFood" - CT-2003-506358
  • HAIR" - CT-2004-501997
  • MOSAICS" - CT-2004-506436
• On the horizon (FP7)
• List of publications

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