Innovation
Here at KiwiGreenSun, we work every day to guarantee the best product in the market
Our mission is to foster innovation, research and technological development in order to create value and ensure top quality. Find out about our Innovation and Development projects!
19kiwi
By developing strategies to promote sustainability in the entire kiwi sector, through the creation of an added value product, I9Kiwi aims to improve our country’s competitiveness, exclusively impacting primary production in the kiwi sector through various types of innovation, namely that of products and processes.
GESPSAKIWI
Operational Tool for the sustainable management of bacterial canker of kiwifruit caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae (PSA)
With the aim of furthering research, technological development and innovation, KiwiGreenSun is investing in this project, which will result in technological and operational improvements.
Our mission is to foster innovation, research and technological development in order to create value and ensure top quality. Find out about our Innovation and Development projects!
TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES
- Set-up of a regional library of individual cases of Pseudomonas spp. and individual PSA biovars in Actinidia orchards in the EDM region, characterised using phenotypic and molecular methods (enabling comparison with samples sent by producers and for studies of the evolution of the pattern of the spread of the disease in the region) (objective achieved in activity 1);
- Assessment of the impact of the invasiveness of the PSA biovars on pollinating male cultivars, and the effect on the production and quality of pollen, on fertilisation and on the profitability of the orchards (objective achieved in activity 3);
- To determine the physiological and metabolic mechanisms related to epiphytic and endophyte colonisation of the bacterium in the plant’s tissues, which explain the severity and progression of the disease in the orchard, under the study conditions defined in the project;
- Identification of environmentally sustainable and more efficient substances of biological and/or chemical origin to control PSA (objective achieved in activity 4).
OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES
- Correlation of the occurrence of Pseudomonas spp./biovars with severe disease in orchards in the EDM region (objective achieved in activity 1 and 3);
- Definition of best growing practices to train pollinating males depending on the bacterial species identified (objective achieved in activity 2);
- Transferral of pollen screening technology to a business environment (objective achieved in activity 3);
- To study the effect of the irrigation regime, water content and nutritional status of the plants on the movement of the bacterium within the plant’s tissues, in order to predict the onset of primary infections in the orchard; Implementation of an Integrated Operational Solution to be adopted in a business environment (objective achieved at the end of activities 1-4).
