MycoKey Project -36 Months Report

MycoKey is playing a huge role in the context of solutions to tackle biological contamination of maize, wheat and barley, food and feed chain, by applying an integrated approach to reduce the risks associated to toxigenic fungi and related mycotoxins, specifically aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, ochratoxin A, fumonisins. The goal is to generate innovative and integrated solutions to support stakeholders in effective and sustainable mycotoxin management along food and feed chains. A brief summary of progress and results is described in the following pages per each WP. The scientific Work Packages (WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6) are described for each task. The table of milestones (MS) and deliverables (D) per WP indicates the progress status of each item (%) and its signal, according to this description: GREEN: everything goes well, milestones and deliverables are reached and completed, punctual and complete reporting, no administrative and/or financial problems, good interaction among partners ORANGE: everything goes well enough but milestones and deliverables are partially reached, or incomplete/delayed reporting, some administrative and/or financial problems, medium interaction among beneficiaries and WPs and level of communication. In general, the overall feedback is not so completely negative: the WP development is good but presents some criticisms to be managed and solved in short time, in order to avoid negative effects on the overall results of the project. No serious risks affecting the activity. RED : the activity development meets criticism of high level, that could have negative impact towards objectives and milestones. The criticism could regard missing cooperation of an important Beneficiary, great difficulties in some WP tasks, serious financial problems, missing reporting or serious remarks by European Commission and External Advisory Board. The overall feedback is negative: the WP development presents hard criticism to be shortly managed and solved, with concentrate and punctual efforts and without negative effects on the overall results of the WP. A summary of results is available in the section 1.3, table 1.3.2 - Impact for practices: results, Technology Readness Levels (TRL), target and potential application