Could microbiota be the key to a more sustainable agriculture? Some plant microorganisms (bacteria and fungi for the most part) have developed mechanisms to protect their leafy hosts. This is because the plants on and around which they live provide them with essential nutrients. Across Europe, scientists are now striving to unlock the full potential of plant microbiomes, as they promise to help agriculture dispense with some of the plant protection products currently in use. For a better picture of the state of the art in this new, exciting field of research, I’m visiting Aarhus University in Denmark and a Danish farm that’s a pioneer in conservation agriculture.
This video was co-produced by INRAE, France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
As a member of the European Research Alliance “Towards a Chemical Pesticide-free Agriculture”, Aarhus University is participating in the Horizon Europe project BarleyMicroBreed, which seeks to improve plant resistance to drought by exploiting the interaction between barley and its root microbiome.
BarleyMicroBreed builds on the paradigm that optimised interactions between plant roots and the existing soil microbiota can improve crop plant resource efficiency and drought resilience.
The project is a collaboration between Aarhus University, Copenhagen University (Denmark), BOKU (Austria), ICARDA (Lebanon), MetasysX (Germany), Photon Systems Instruments (Czech Republic), Eurofins Genomics (Germany) and Lantmannen (Sweden).
Denmark is the seventh stop 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.
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List of speakers in this video (in order of appearance):
- Mette Vestergård Madsen: Entomology and Plant Pathology, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University
- Louise Reinbach Rasmussen: Laboratory Technician, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University
- Søren Ilsøe: Farmer, pioneer in conservation agriculture, Knudstrup Farm, Fjenneslev
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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 (source: Ademe/monimpacttransport.fr) was 3.2 kg CO2e for an itinerary of 1,352 km by train and 19 kg CO2e for the remaining 86 km by car, which is 176.8 kg CO2e less than if I’d chosen to travel by car exclusively and 250.8 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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