Abstract
Sustainable plant & crop production systems in Europe Professor Laura Grenville-Briggs shares her stance on working together to counter the threat of oomycete diseases, focussing on trans-sectoral approaches to support sustainable plant and crop production systems in Europe. Oomycetes, microbes that superficially resemble fungi, are devastating pathogens affecting a wide range of plants and animals. Oomycete diseases in our agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture production systems as well as natural or managed ecosystems are a major threat to food security, environmental sustainability and economic stability. What is more, under current climate change predictions, oomycete diseases are predicted to spread polewards1 and with more unpredictable weather patterns are likely to be more disruptive in the future. These diseases could, therefore, be a significant barrier to meeting objectives, such as the European Green Deal and the Farm2Fork strategy. For example, potato late blight is managed in conventional cropping systems with multiple fungicide applications. In Europe alone, more than 2 million tonnes of pesticides are applied annually in potato, largely to control late blight2.
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