Selective breeding can effectively contribute to reducing pesticide use by helping to develop high-yield, hazard-resistant crops. For this video, I’m visiting the facilities of Julius Kühn Institut (JKI), the German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants. In a string of high-tech labs and greenhouses, researchers there simulate the typical stress factors that plants may encounter out in the field - extreme weather conditions, pest attacks and disease outbreaks - and monitor how modern as well as ancient varieties of wheat and other cereals react to them. If they find a variety with interesting resistance traits, they’ll try to identify genetic markers for these traits and so make the variety’s genetic resources available for general breeding. Who knows, the wheat of the future might be created right here! And it sure won’t need much pesticide.
This video was co-produced by INRAE, France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
The mountainous Harz region, situated right in the middle of the country, is one of Germany’s historical centres for plant breeding.
This stop is the fourth on my “Field Trip”, my study tour of agricultural research across Europe.
The European Research Alliance “Towards a Chemical Pesticide-free Agriculture” was launched by INRAE, together with its German partners from JKI and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Under ERA’s umbrella, 34 research organisations from 20 European countries are currently working closely together with a view to pooling their strengths and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and expertise in their respective fields. One of the central aims of the alliance is to provide scientific support for an ambitious objective set by the European Commission: cutting Europe’s use of pesticides in half by 2030.
ERA’s website and its 34 members:
www.era-pesticidefree.eu/Abou...
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List of speakers in this video (in order of appearance):
- Holger Zetzsche: Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance, JKI
- Gwendolin Wehner: Tolerance to abiotic stress (heat, drought), JKI
- Veronic Töpfer: PhD student, JKI
- Albrecht Serfling: Tolerance to biotic stress, leaf rust of wheat, JKI
- Torsten Will: Entomologist, plant-insect interaction, JKI
The publication I’m referring to at the beginning of the video can be consulted here:
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
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The impact of my travels:
I’m always aiming to limit my carbon footprint. For this video, the impact created by my travels by train and public transport (source: Ademe/monimpacttransport.fr) was 1.40 kg CO2e for an itinerary of 624 km, which is 90.60 kg CO2e less than if I’d chosen to travel by car and 78.60 kg CO2e if I’d gone by plane.
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A series by Pierre Girard, co-produced with INRAE
Writing:
Pierre Girard
Camera and editing:
Patryk Puchalski
Graphic design:
Otto Stobbe
Translation and subtitles:
Geoffrey Schöning
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