Crop Defenders Ltd.
$148,161.00 CAD
≈ 23 months of average Canadian pay
- Department
- National Research Council Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2018-2019
- Agreement period
- April 2, 2018 – February 28, 2019
- Reference
- nrc-cnrc:172-2018-2019-Q1-907719
Published purpose
Crop Defenders Ltd. is developing an innovative strategy and device to be used for pepper weevil suppression involving luring the pest and disseminating entomopathogenic fungi._x000D_ The project will require in-depth investigation on the horizontal transmission of conidia between individuals in the laboratory, and require the development of a longer lasting pheromone. We will experiment for the ‘attract/lure and infect/kill’ strategy, and integrate the attract/lure and infect/kill strategy with other control strategies. Finally, we will develop a fundamental initial prototype of an autodissemination device. _x000D_
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