From the laboratory to the market The success story of BlossomProtect

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From the laboratory to the marketThe success
story of BlossomProtect
The natural way
DI (MSc) Christoph Ertl1, Dr. Christina Donat1,
Prof. Dr. Herbert Danner1, Dipl.-Ing. Gudrun
Mögel2 , Dr. Stefan Kunz ²,³
1bio-ferm, Produktion und Entwicklung GmbH Konrad
Lorenz Straße 20, A-3430 Tulln 2Bio-protect,Gesel
lschaft für biologischen Pflanzenschutz Lohnerhofs
traße 7, D-78467 Konstanz 3Universität Konstanz,
LS Phytopathologie, Universitätsstraße 10,
D-78457 Konstanz
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Fireblight in Austria
N
First appearance in the mid nineties
W
E
main fruit growing region (Styria)
Erwinia amylovora moves eastwards
S
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Spread of Fireblight in lower Austria
APPEARENCE OF FIREBLIGHT 2002-2004
2002 33 uprootings 2003 185 uprootings 2004 569
uprootings
Total aera 19.177km² 21 counties 573 communities
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System of local authorities
Department of provincial government of Lower
Austria Determination of the legal policies
Offical Plantprotection Service Coordination Profe
ssional initial training and support Information
of the population
County Council Execution of legal regulation
Cut- and uproot-brigade Machinery
ring cutting uprooting disposal/hygiene
Fireblight expert (County) infestation suspicions
are clarified Decision of measures
Firebligt Agent (community) Elimination of false
suspicion Forwarding of suspicion to experts
Cost 2007 gt 1 Mio
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The story of Blossom Protect

• Isolation and characterization of micro
  organism
• Screening/in vivo testing
• production / formulation
• Field trials
• Scale up of production
• Registration
• Application

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Basic research

• Screening for new isolates
• Isoltion of new strains from the environment
• Characterization of strains

B. subtilis
A. pullulans
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Basic research

• Screening for suitable isolates
• in vivo test
• 36C
• Reproduction rate
• Cold-tolerance and dryness-tolerance

2 strains of Aureobasidium pullulans
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First testing

• Field testing

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Research and development

• Upscale of the production
• Fermentation

• Shelf life

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Formulation

• Blossom Protect
• 2 components A and B

A Citric acid buffer
B 2 Active substances (according to EFSA-request
2005) 2 isolates of Aureobasidium
pullulans,DSM14941 und DSM14940 skim milk,
sugar (0-90)
B
A
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How to use BlossomProtect ?
Preventiv product against Bloom Infection
Maryblight
Phenology
According to BBCH-scale
61
69
4 treatments from 61 to max. 69 (10, 40, 70
and 90 open blossom)
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How does BlossomProtect works ?
Untreated Blossom Protect
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Efficacy/Fieldtrials
Blossom Protect 61 Strepomycin 84
Quellen Amtzell 2003 A. Fried et al.,
Obstbau 29 (3), 161 (2004). Amtzell 2004 C.
Scheer et al., Obstbau 30 (3), 122
(2005). Kirschgartshausen 2005 W. Jelkmann,
in Jahresbericht der BBA 2005 (2006).
Kirschgartstshausen 2006
not published Amtszell 2006
not published
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Efficacy/Fieldtrials
Blossom Protect 80 Organic alternative 60
Quellen Groß-Umstadt 2004 S. Kunz et al.,
Ökoobstbau (4), 2 (2004). Karsee 2004 S.
Kunz et al., Ökoobstbau (4), 2 (2004) Karssee und
Darmstadt 2006 S. Kunz et al., Ökoobstbau
(4), 3 (2006). Karsee 2007 not published
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See poster Registration process and study
design for a microbial plant protection product
against fire blight in Europe
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Actual state of affairs

• Registered in Germany since 2006
• Yearly emergency use registration in Austria from
  2004 on
• More than 100ha of successful treatment with
  BlossomProtect in
• Germany and Austria 2007
• EU-Registration from 2008 on (possible in all
  countries of EU)
• New production line in Brazil from summer 2008
  onwards
• Expand distributor-network in EU worldwide
• (right now distributors in Germany, Slovkia,
  Hungary, Slovenjia)

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The natural way
Thank you for your attention
DI (MSc) Christoph Ertl Technical
Management bio-ferm GmbH Konrad Lorenz
Str.20 3430 Tulln Tel. [phone]
531 christoph.ertl_at_bio-ferm.com