Abstract
The goal of our R&D project is to develop the HBGP (Hiltop Bio Guard Products) spray-applied bioprotection agent product family, which can be used securely, directly in the period before the harvest, and which significantly reduces the considerable damage that a botrytis-caused rotting would cause due to a potential rainy season. In the project, our researchers will conduct experiments on various plant protection processes, where they will use microorganisms with inhibitory effects as the sprayed bioprotection agents instead of chemicals. Using the results of previous researches done by our consortium, the researchers will look for the ideal antagonist microorganisms amongst the microorganisms that would appear on grapes naturally as well. It is mostly the various yeast-fungi that match the aforementioned requirements, as they reproduce on the grapes during the ripening phase as well, and they cause no harm to human health when consumed with the grapes.
The novelty in our R&D project is that we will develop a brand new, dried, sprayer-applied bioprotection agent, which is based on inhibitor microorganisms, and which exists neither on the Hungarian, nor on the international markets at the moment. Products with similar effects and mechanisms are produced in Germany and in the Czech Republic, but they are based on different cellular cultures, and their effects last only for a short period of time. Our project relies on the results of a previous scientific research, according to which, the inhibitory effects of microorganisms do not come due to the production of toxins or antibiotics, but due to a special process, during which microorganisms tie down loose iron in their surroundings.
The result of our R&D project, the HBGP bioprotective plant protection agent will be produced using contact manufacturing, and we intend to sell the product family to organic vineyards both on the Hungarian and the international markets.
Hungary