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Sustainability, product safety and quality in cereals: development of novel quantitative models for risk assessment for mycotoxigenic Fusarium species

Reference	BBS/E/J/00003345
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Paul Nicholson
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	88,643
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/10/2000
End date	31/03/2005
Duration	54 months

Abstract

The overall objective of this project is to obtain a large body of quantitative data on FEB (measured as visual disease symptom and fungal DNA biomass) and production of associated mycotoxins in controlled environments and to develop quantitative risk assessment models, which will be refined using data collected from a large number of sites in Europe with contrasting climatic conditions. The risk models will be a useful decision support tool for farmers in making decisions concerning the necessity of fungicide treatments against FEB, and the potential risk of mycotoxin production in grains. Thus the models will help farmers optimise fungicide input and produce healthy safe food whist adopting sound and environmentally friendly practices that promote sustainable agriculture.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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