Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health
Plant Pest Prevention through technology-guided monitoring and site-specific control (PurPest)
End: dec 2026
Start: jan 2023
The main objective of PurPest is to control serious plant pests during import and to manage them in the field by developing a unique concept enabling pest detection in a timely and non-invasive manner.
Project participants
Gunda Thöming Martin Pettersson Dalphy Ondine Camira Harteveld Marta Bosque Fajardo Volkmar Timmermann Venche Talgø Solveig Haukeland Birgitte HenriksenLinks
PurPest website
| Start - end date | 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2026 |
| Project manager | Andrea Ficke |
| Division | Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health |
| Department | Fungal Plant Pathology in Forestry, Agriculture and Horticulture |
| Total budget | Total: €8 414 940, For NIBIO: €1 072 588 |
| Funding source | EU program Horizon Europe, Call: HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01, National research councils from UK and Switzerland |
PurPest aims to exploit specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by pests or by the plants attacked by certain pests. These VOCs have been studied for many pests, but their pest detection potential has not yet been properly exploited. The PurPest project will meet its main objective by utilize this potential and developing sensor system prototypes (SSP) to detect the VOCs and monitor 5 target pests: Phytophthora ramorum, the brown marmorated stink bug, the cotton bollworm, the fall armyworm and the pinewood nematode.
Project partners:
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Participant No. |
Participant organisation name |
Country |
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1 CO |
NIBIO |
Norsk Institutt for Bioøkonomi |
Norway |
|
2 |
SINTEF |
SINTEF AS |
Norway |
|
3 |
NTNU |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Norway |
|
4 |
JKI |
Julius Kühn-Institut |
Germany |
|
5 |
SAFTRA |
SAFTRA Photonics, s.r.o. |
Slovakia |
|
6 |
UWAR |
Warwick University |
United Kingdom |
|
7 |
PLI |
Plante og importkontroll AS |
Norway |
|
8 |
UNIPD |
Università degli Studi di Padova |
Italy |
|
9 |
INIAV |
National Institute for Agriculture and Veterinary Research |
Portugal |
|
10 |
MENDELU |
Mendelova univerzita v Brně |
Czech Republic |
|
11 |
VOL |
UAB Volatile Technologies LT |
Lithuania |
|
12 |
AIRMO |
Airmotec AG |
France |
|
13 |
WU |
Wageningen University |
Netherlands |
|
14 |
UNINE |
Université de Neuchâtel |
Switzerland |
|
15 |
DGAV |
Direcção Geral de Alimentação e áaVeterinária |
Portugal |
|
16 |
CNP |
Centro Pinus |
Portugal |
|
17 |
UNIEV |
Universidade de Évora |
Portugal |
|
18 |
WBF |
Eidgenössisches Department für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung (Agroscope) |
Switzerland |