{"id":4432,"date":"2017-05-05T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/insights\/actualites\/actualite\/ipm-4-citrus-project\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:27:41","slug":"ipm-4-citrus-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/insights\/blog\/ipm-4-citrus-project\/","title":{"rendered":"IPM-4-CITRUS Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>H2020 European project called IPM-4-CITRUS, for<\/strong> <b>Integrated Pest <\/b><b>Management for Citrus, <\/b>was launched on 27 April 2017 at INSA Toulouse (France). <strong>TWB is partner of this project<\/strong>.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/citrus-1-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6601 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/citrus-1-300x225-2.jpg\" alt=\"IPM-4-CITRUS\" width=\"330\" height=\"247\"><\/a>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IPM-4-Citrus aims to strengthen collaborations between academic and non-academic -industrial- partners based in 3 European Member States (France, Germany, Italy), 2 Associated Countries (Turkey and Tunisia) and 1 Third Country (Lebanon), in order <strong>to develop a new biopesticide active against citrus pests and scale it up from lab to market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project\u2019s research and innovation activities are based on a <strong>multidisciplinary approach<\/strong>, which aims at understanding and sensitising stakeholders about the health risk factors related to citrus pests and their treatment by chemical pesticides and developing an <strong>alternative Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach based on biological control<\/strong>. <em><strong>Bacillus thuringiensis<\/strong><\/em> (Bt) based biopesticides occupy almost 97% of the world\u2019s biopesticide market and their use was estimated to exceed 30,000 tons. Despite this widespread use, the originality of Citrus-IPM is to focus on 2 promising, newly identified strains (Bt kurstaki BLB1 and LIP), which were shown to be more efficient than the commercial (Bt kurstaki HD1).<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In conjunction with validation through field tests, the project will pave the way for future commercial exploitation of a new biopesticide product by drawing up a feasibility study for future spin-off activities and\/or new production lines in partner SMEs.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project, with a <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\">total budget of<\/span> \u20ac 0.8M for a four year period,<\/span> is supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisbp.fr\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISBP<\/a> laboratory via the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), University of Toulouse, France. It includes the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) with TWB.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TWB will be involved in optimizing the microbial toxins production and researching industrial partners for the transfer step.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>TWB Contact: Julien Cescut &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"mailto:julien.cescut@insa-toulouse.fr\">julien.cescut@insa-toulouse.fr<\/a>\n\n<p>More information:<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/rcn\/207633_fr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H2020 European project called IPM-4-CITRUS, for Integrated Pest Management for Citrus, was launched on 27 April 2017 at INSA Toulouse (France). TWB is partner of this project. IPM-4-Citrus aims to strengthen collaborations between academic and non-academic -industrial- partners based in 3 European Member States (France, Germany, Italy), 2 Associated Countries (Turkey and Tunisia) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_schema_org_content_json":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[281,201],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite","category-evenements","tag-biopesticide","tag-ipm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toulouse-white-biotechnology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}