RATION WEBINAR EVENT
On 7th of March 2025 a virtual event was organized through Zoom and this initiative aimed at presenting RATION in order to introduce key Iberian agricultural stakeholders to the RATION stakeholders’ forum, starting with Portuguese farmers’ associations.
Continue ReadingRation involvement in the Innovent Forum 2025, Larissa, Greece.
Ration took the chance to present itself at the three-day hybrid science and technology event, that took place on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of February 2025 at JOIST Innovation Park in Larissa, Greece.
Continue ReadingThe coordinator of RATION Prof. Karpouzas is presenting the current state and progress of RATION in the Workshop on the development of a fit-for-purpose approach for assessing the risk of low-concern active substances which was organized by EFSA in Thessaloniki, Greece on the 15-16th of January 2025.
Continue ReadingThe fourth e-newsletter of RATION was issued. Have a look on the activities of RATION so far and its prime goals).
Continue ReadingNextGenBioPest is a Horizon EU project that meets the challenge of increasing crop yields, while reducing the use of chemical pesticides by delivering novel and improved products, methods, and practices for the rational control of the most difficult-to-manage arthropod pests and pathogens, with substantially reduced pesticide use. The project will provide a new toolkit for plant protection in key vegetable and fruit crops including diagnostics for pest and pathogen identification and incrimination, novel Biological Control Agents and methods to augment their performance in the field, RNA-based pesticides, Low Risk/Green chemicals, plant resistance inducers and innovative agronomic and ecological practices. These innovations will be integrated with existing approaches, to achieve effective, environment friendly and sustainable crop protection.
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The main findings and activities of RATION were presented in the ABIM 2024 Conference which was organized in Basel, Switzerland on the 21-23 October 2024. The researchers of RATION along with the member of the advisory board Dr S. Arpaia, an expert in the risk assessment of dsRNA, presented their work and had the chance to discuss with the audience the future work on the area of risk assessment of low risk pesticides. The RATION workshop was organized with the valuable help of IBMA and it was attended by over 100 people.
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Continue ReadingDr. Dimitrios Karpouzas and Dr. Khalid Amari Baba were invited to present their work in the Conference: Novel Pesticides ‘Towards Sustainability in the Regulatory Framework of the EU’ that was held in Düsseldorf Germany in 19th and 20th of September 2024. Both Professors has the opportunity to talk about RATION progress and activities and ds-RNA pesticides and the work performed by RATION in this area.
Continue ReadingOn the 19th of July 2024 a workshop with the title “Possible future guidance and risk assessment for novel microbial and microbiome solutions for biocontrol in European agriculture” was organized by AIT as a satellite event of the International Symposium Micrope. Researchers from RATION like the coordinator Dimitrios Karpouzas, Dr Brader Gunder (AIT), Dr Antonis Chatzinotas (UFZ) and Dr Jose Luis Alonso Prados (CSIC-INIA) presented the work done in the area of microbial pesticides risk assessment in the project RATION and talked about novel microbial solutions like phages, protists, consortia and data requirements.
Continue ReadingThe work presented addresses two aspects that are targeted in RATION, towards the development of a new RA scheme for dsRNAs as low-risk biopesticides: (a) the mode-of-action of small RNAs in the plant, focusing on epigenetic effects on the plant genome, and (b) the movement of sRNAs in the root-to-shoot access.
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