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Plant And Seed Health In Organic Systems: Embedded In Or Disconnected From Interactions With Microbial Communities?

Klaedtke, Stephanie Mathilde; Andrianne, Catherine; Rey, Frédéric and Chable, Véronique (2021) Plant And Seed Health In Organic Systems: Embedded In Or Disconnected From Interactions With Microbial Communities? Paper at: Organic World Congress 2021, Science Forum: 6th ISOFAR Conference co-organised with INRA, FiBL, Agroecology Europe, TP Organics and ITAB, Rennes, France, 8 - 10 September, 2021. [Completed]

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Summary

A wide range of different, sometimes mutually exclusive, approaches to plant health are practiced within organic farming and seed systems. Plant health management may seek to completely exclude plant pathogens from growing environments and seed systems in a mechanistic, reductionist perspective. On the other hand, it may also aim at resilient cropping systems, involving plant defense mechanisms and complex microbial communities in a more holistic approach. How organic communities define and manage plant health will have implications on the design of organic seed systems and farm agrecosystems, as well as on future research agendas. Debates on approaches to plant health have been sparked within community seed networks in France and Belgium. Based on practical experiences and on a review of interdisciplinary literature ranging from crop ecology to microbiology to the social sciences, the options available to organic agriculture in terms of plant and seed health are elucidated.


EPrint Type:Conference paper, poster, etc.
Type of presentation:Paper
Keywords:health management approaches, microbial communities, plant and seed health
Subjects: Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection
Environmental aspects > Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Research affiliation: International Conferences > 2021: Organic World Congress, Science Forum: 6th ISOFAR Conference co-organised with INRA, FiBL, Agroecology Europe, TP Organics and ITAB > Ecological approaches to systems' health
Belgium
France
Deposited By: rey, m. frederic
ID Code:42116
Deposited On:07 Sep 2021 13:12
Last Modified:07 Sep 2021 13:12
Document Language:English
Status:Unpublished
Refereed:Peer-reviewed and accepted
Additional Publishing Information:A book of abstracts of papers of the Science Forum at the Organic World Congress 2021, September 8-10, Online and on-site in Rennes, France '6th ISOFAR Conference co-organised with INRA, FiBL, Agroecology Europe, TP Organics and ITAB' has been published

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