enclose fungi to the greenhouse is generally not something growers are excited to do but can establish to be fairly useful and educational , which is why it is one of the thing Jantinke - Hofland - Zijlstra want to help growers achieve . The advisor researcher started her own companionship on the 4th of January called Weerbare Plant .
The name of her company have the two experienced entrepreneurs who guide her in her entrepreneurship to raise an supercilium . Is that really an likable name ? Jantineke for certain thought so and has been proven to be right over the past few months . “ There is a lot of demand for an sovereign spar better half in the playing field of fungi and plant diseases . Not many the great unwashed are doing this in the greenhouse horticultural sphere . ”
Although the grandness of a resilient plant is being discern more and more . “ The dusty honest-to-god image has long since go away . The interest group in this line of oeuvre has increase , especially since raiser that ferment with biostimulants and plant food begin noticing what this could do for the plants ' resiliency . ”
all-inclusive viewUp until this point , the plan of attack to resilience has often been a reductionist one , accord to Jantineke . Meaning that the focus is often on just one product , one plant protection production , or one shape of resistance . “ I think we should pay more aid to the bigger motion picture , look at the entire system and focus on the overall resilience of the plant . To achieve this , we all want to broaden our views . fortunately the sector has been progressing well in this regard . ”
New ideasWith the growers in mind , Jantineke will focus on give advice , researching for the raiser , and run courses , of which she has already given two under the unsurprising title of ‘ Weerbare Plant ’ . “ The interest in the courses has been incontrovertible . During which I have also notice that the sovereign view provide on the topic is being appreciated . With each course , I take out from my , by now , extensive experience in both scientific and practical enquiry . I still attempt to keep up - to - day of the month and gain new ideas from thing such as international literature to eventually apportion with the growers . ”
Fungi most often occur in the periods between March - April and August - September . During which natural light increases and by the end reduction , which serves a gun trigger for the fungus problems in greenhouses . On the photo : mildew in tomato .
PrioritiesAs a ‘ fungi expert ’ – which Jantineke can laugh about and take as a compliment – she regularly joins up with cultivator who have unify against a fungi trouble . “ From my position as an self-governing and experienced outsider , I endeavor to give structure to their research , count at what has already been done by the growers and their advisors , and what could be done to improve this . It is often all-important to get the precedence directly , but fungi do n’t await for this to take place . It is therefore important to make good , thoroughgoing , but also quick decisions .
Enough knowledge?An crucial part of doing so is knowing fungus . Which is logical , but is there enough of this knowledge within the sector ? Jantineke wonders about this during the conversation . “ I live that in Belgium , for instance , they lead a closer looking at at the isolates of Botrytis . The inquiry designate that all character of different isolates were present , some of which were even of varying pathogenicity during the season ( which made them negative to the craw ) . It also turned out the fungi in question were often more aggressive at the end of the growing season than the same variety was at the start of the time of year . This record that dealing with fungi is not inevitably the same throughout the season . ”
In cultivation , growers have to deal with roughly two mixed bag of fungi : greenhouse air fungi , of which the spores mainly move through the air in the greenhouse , and varieties that move rapidly through piss and ground particles , substrate kingdom Fungi . The latter one is the most persistent since their resting spore can come through on dying works waste or substrate particle for a long time and germinate in prosperous experimental condition . In the photo : Mycosphaerella in cucumber , a nursery air kingdom Fungi .
This stool it so that simply place the label of ‘ Fusarium ’ or ‘ Pythium ’ on a cultivation problem is not enough , concord to Jantineke . “ Therefore , I see the opportunity to gather fungi from nursery using the now more commonly used molecular techniques and mapping the diverse amount of harmful and non - harmful fungi present . ”
Testing flora materialsAnother bragging task in which Jantineke see a hopeful hereafter is collecting works materials from as many greenhouse as possible and performing a disease test . “ You will undoubtedly remark a fortune of differences from which grower then will be able to learn a lot . ” Why has this never worked before ? “ Because it is not innovational enough , which progress to it harder to get financial backing for . Now that I am independent , I think setting up such a undertaking , for instance , with the helper of students . They can help out and learn a lot from the execution of the project . ”
Custom madeOn a small scale leaf , but no less important is her programme to transmit biologic tests with the agriculturist . “ With which you apply a fungus to a leaf in a controlled manner , even if there is no disease pressure present yet , to already get an brainwave into the plants ' born resilience . This character of isolated mental testing cater the grower with a lot of knowledge and optic evidence from a genuine - living scenario . That is what I am aim for : custom - made solutions . Just like with independent advice , you rarely see this in the field of works diseases . ”
Botrytis in cyclaam
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Jantineke HoflandM +31 ( 0)6 181 34 776
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