VIBHA DHAWAN. 23 October 2017. Brussels, Belgium. G-STIC 2017: The first Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference series.

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G-STIC 2017 Thematic Session Agriculture & Food
Theme : Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems
23 – 25 October, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium

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Integrated nutrient & Pest management for
ecosystem sustainability
Dr Vibha Dhawan, Senior Director and Distinguished Fellow, TERI

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What is Integrated Pest Management?
Integrated Pest Management is the broad based control
approach that integrates practices for control of pests
below the economic injury level and results in safe food
production

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IPM – Key message
! Control and Not eradication
! Strict monitoring
! Preventive cultural practices
! Mechanical control
! Biological control
! Responsible use of chemicals

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Bollcure: A new Biopesticide Developed by The Energy
and Research Institute (TERI)
! Extracted from Eucalyptus leaves
! Effective against cotton bollworm , spodoptera, DBM, Cabbage
looper, Silverleaf whiteRly, melon aphid, western Rlower thrips,
Cabbage aphid, Asian citrus psyllid, Root knot nematode,thrips,
jassids
! SigniRicant reduction in larval weight (88%)
! Mild antifeedancy
! Cost beneRit ratio up to 1:17.1
! Environment friendly
! Safe for mammals- Oral LD50>2000-5000 mg/kg

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Other products in pipeline – microbial biopesticides
S. Li&oralis = Spodoptera li&oralis; M. javanica = Meloidogyne javanica; R. padi = Rhopalosiphum padi;
M. persicae = Myzus persicae

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Bio-intensive pest management for environmental
quality, good yield, better quality, better price
! Rice
! Wheat
! Sugarcane
! Cabbage
! Potato
! Chili
! Beans
! CauliRlower
! Tomato
! Okra
! Brinjal
! Okra
! Cucurbits

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Management of stored grain pest
! Different parasitoids, Uscana , Dinormus,
Anisopteromallus, and Lariophagus
evaluated for their effectiveness at different
temperature and humidity condition

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Utilization on agro-processing waste for
value addition

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Harnessing the potential of mustard cake
as biopesticide

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Integrated nutrient management
Application of all sources of Nutrients Organic /
inorganic / bio-fertilizer applied to the soil so that crop
yields are optimized

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Why INM
! Soils supplemented with chemical fertilizers shows
declining productivity due to deteriorating soil
conditions & deRiciency of secondary & micronutrients
! Excess use of fertilizers leads to other environmental
problems such as ground water pollution

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INM
! Fertilizers – natural or synthetic
! Manure / Green Manure / crop residue
! Compost / vermicompost
! Biofertilizer

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Organic Manure
Bulky
FYM
Compost
Green manure
Concentrated
(oil seed cakes)

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Crop speciRic advisories to soil health cards assisting
in identifying exact needs of the crops

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Biofertilizers
! Preparation containing living or latent cells of micro-
organisms that improve crop yields
! May help in Rixing atmospheric nitrogen (Rhizobium &
leguminous plant root interaction
! Azospirillum, a free living bacteria that form
association with C4 plants such as maize & sugarcane
! Phosphorus solubilizing bacteria & fungus such as
Pseudomonas straita, Bacillus polymixa, Penicilliun
digitatum, Aspergillus awamoori

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Vesicular Arbuocular Mycorrliza (VAM) is formed by the
symbiotic association between certain Phycomycetous
fungi & angiosperm roots.

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! The fungus colonizes the root cortex forming a
mycelia network & characteristics vesicles and
arbusculus (branched Ringer – like hyphe)

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! VAM: helps in phosphorus nutrition by increasing its
availability and increasing the mobility
! Improves the uptake of Zn, Cu & Water
! Enhances resistance to root diseases & improves
transplantation success
! Helps in wasteland reclamation by improving
extended arm to plant root

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Center for Mycorrhizal culture collection
World’s largest and unique culture collection of two major categories of mycorrhiza
(Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi & Ectomycorrhizal Fungi) at one place
Also maintains cultures from North American mycorrhizal culture collection INVAM,
from France INRA, and from Belgium BEG
Culture available for use
provides information on
" Molecular characterization
" Biochemical signatures
" Functional properties

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Centre for Mycorrhizal Research
Rationale: Enhance plant production & wasteland reclamation in an economically
proMitable & sustainable manner with a minimized environmental damage using
mycorrhizal biofertilizer and other beneMicial organisms
Culture collection Molecular markers Plant Microbe interaction Organic Farming
On-site reclamation
technologies
Bio-reactor Root Organ
Culture
Bio-products
Technology
Transfer

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TERI’s patented in vitro mass production
technology for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Product Formulations
Form
o Tablets
o Powder
o Granules
o Liquid
Applications
o Agriculture, horticulture, Forestry
o Organic farming
o Desert
o Bioremediation
o All stressed environment

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Development of green belt on industry
created wastelands
Case Example: Coromandel International
Location: Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Area of project site: 18 acres
Duration of project: 1 year
Site before TERI’s intervention, 2013
Plantation on 7 acres land (Feb, 2014)

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TERI’s Mycorrhiza Product Applications
! Cereals: Wheat, rice, maize, ragi, pearl millet, sorghum, barley
! Pulses: black-gram, green-gram, red-gram, bengal-gram and lentil.
! Oil Seeds: Groundnut, soybean.
! Cash Crop: Sugarcane, tea, cotton, Jute.
! Vegetables: Potato, Cabbage, brinjal, french-bean, tomato, cauliRlower, carrot, beetroot, cowpea,
cucumber, knol-khol, onion, pea, chilli, fenugeek.
! Fruits: pineapple, papaya, banana.
! Condiment and spices: Turmeric, ginger, garlic, coriander.
! Plantation: Eucalyptus, teak, bamboo.
! Fodder: Rhodes grass, Alfa Alfa
! Flower : Rose, jasmine, marigold, Syngonium, Draceana, Petunia, gladiolus, gerbera.
! Medicinal: Phyllanthus niruri, Clitorina ternetta, Tridax procumbens, Ocimum gratissimum RRL-OC, 14
and Ocimum canum RRL-OC -12, Tephrisia purpurea, Abutilon indicum, Asparagus racemosus, Aloe
vera, Ocimum sanctum, Ocimum bacilicum, Silybum marianum, Solanum nigrum, Coleus aromaticum,
Centella asiatica, Andrographis panicutala, Glyrycizia glabra, Terminellia arjuna, Geranium
List of Crops men.oned above is indica.ve and not exhaus.ve for Product Applica.on

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TERI’s Mycorrhiza Field Results
compiled in the form of book
100 plus publications on
mycorrhiza research

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Onion

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Wheat

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Visit us at . . .
http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc
CMCC (CENTRE FOR MYCORRHIZAL CULTURE COLLECTION) : http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/
CULTURES : http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/cultures.php
Services:
Deposit and Safeguarding Services : http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/services.php#dep
PuriRication Services : http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/services.php#puri
Substantiation Services : http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/services.php#subs
Provide Cultures: (AMF and EMF) http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/prod_res.php
Culture Request Form: http://mycorrhizae.org.in/cmcc/requsetform.php

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Induction of secondary metabolites in
mycorrhized root cultures

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Mycorrhizal elicitation of rosmarinic acid
in hairy roots of Ocimum basilicum

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Synthesis of pesticides and evaluation of their
generic mode of action and toxicity
Salient achievements:
! Synthesis and characterization of highly water
soluble and stable nanoformulation of diacyl
and sulfonyl acyl hydrazines by ultrasonic
disintegration method
! TEM and DLS studies showed the formation of
uniform nanoemulsion having average size of
50 nm
! Nanoformulations posses remarkable stability
of more than 5 months with loading efRiciency of
75+2 %.
! Biosafety studies of nanoformulation on Galleria
mellonella as a model for mammalian systems
showed no toxicity even at 1mg/mL

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Development of a novel formulation for seed
coating with biologicals, fungicides and
nanonutrients

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Thank You