Project description
A boost for pre-breeding activities in the olive sector
Climate change, emerging diseases and genetic erosion threaten olive production worldwide. While olive germplasm banks offer a possible solution, they remain unexploited due to limited development of pre-breeding activities and lack of collaboration and interaction between the germplasm banks and farmers/breeders. The EU-funded GEN4OLIVE project will increase the mobilisation of olive genetic resources and encourage pre-breeding activities by characterising more than 500 varieties and 1 000 wild and ancient genotypes around the topics of climate change, pest and diseases, production and quality and modern planting systems issues. The project will also develop smart ICT tools to make olive genetic resources more accessible to end-users, and enhance breeders’ and growers’ participation through two open calls for supporting pre-breeding activities.
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14005 Cordoba
Spain
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Participants (15)
11145 Athina
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06000 Ankara
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41018 Sevilla
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10000 Rabat
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41092 Sevilla
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14420 Villafranca De Cordoba
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
41016 Sevilla
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10443 Athina
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00184 Roma
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63755 Alzenau
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
06100 Tandogan Ankara
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18071 Granada
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23071 Jaen
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00185 Roma
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75794 Paris
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