Objetivos
General:
The project’s general objective would be to design one or several directed microbiological consortia, that once inoculated into the soil, stimulate plant development and production, through the colonization of the soil and plant roots. A naturally occurring process under normal agricultural conditions, but one that do not exist in a scenario of intensive agriculture, Making it necessary to incorporate them, which is now possible thanks to the development of these new products.
Specific objectives:
- Selection of microorganisms with highly versatile biostimulant activity. The selection entails the identification of a series of microorganisms that will promote plant development and growth when treated with them.
- Isolation of microorganisms from the rhizosphere and endophytes of individual plants selected for their special vigorousness within the target crops. We will develop an isolation method specialized in the detection of beneficial fungi and bacteria present in the crops’ soil, as well as for the isolation of microorganisms present inside the plant’s roots.
- Study of the interaction/compatibility of the selected microorganisms. It is important to analyze the compatibility between each of the isolated microorganisms in order to evaluate the effectiveness of our final formulation and design a strategy to develop our solutions based on beneficial microorganisms.
- Determination of the biostimulating or induction qualities of plant defense against certain pathogens. We need to ascertain the biostimulant properties of these microorganisms
and which metabolic pathways produce this effect, in order to ensure that the activation of one of the microorganism’s metabolic pathway results in the activation of a second microorganism’s desired metabolic pathway. Identification of the appropriate dose of each of the microorganisms included in our final solution.
- Validation in field trials of the results obtained experimentally in the laboratory. We will correctly identify the appropriate dose of each microorganism in the desired crop.
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