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Harnessing the value of tomato genetic resources for now and the future

Description du projet

Cultiver la tomate parfaite à l’ère de la modification génomique

Rouges, rondes et juteuses, les tomates font partie des cultures maraîchères les plus pratiquées au monde. Le chemin de la plante sauvage à l’ingrédient pilier d’innombrables préparations passe par la domestication. La tomate d’aujourd’hui est le fruit d’années de production sélective. Par ailleurs, bien qu’elle soit vulnérable face aux maladies émergentes et au changement climatique, la richesse de ses ressources et informations génétiques permet aux scientifiques d’organiser une structure de gestion pour sa protection. Le projet HARNESSTOM, financé par l’UE, s’appuiera sur cette recherche. Il démontrera, en particulier, qu’une utilisation croissante des ressources génétiques est essentielle à la sécurité alimentaire et peut mener à des innovations. L’objectif est de renforcer la résistance contre les principales maladies émergentes, d’augmenter la tolérance au changement climatique et d’améliorer la qualité.

Objectif

Tomato is a paradigm of crop domestication: a widely cultivated and consumed vegetable but with reduced genetic diversity and therefore highly vulnerable to emerging diseases and climate change. Fortunately, tomato is rich in genetic resources and information to overcome those difficulties and a coalition of scientists and breeding experts which have generated a large amount of this information have been organized under an effective management structure and a series of objectives to overcome those threats. HARNESSTOM aims to demonstrate that increasing use of Genetic Resources is key for food safety and security and can lead to innovation and benefit all stakeholders. By capitalizing on the large effort done recently in several EU-funded projects to connect phenotypes/genotypes in a large number of accessions from different germplasm banks and academia, HARNESSTOM will first collect, centralize and normalize this wealth of information in a way that is easily searchable and displayed in a user-friendly manner adapted to different type of users. Second, HARNESSTOM will develop four prebreeding programs addressing the major challenges of the field: 1) introducing resistances against major emerging diseases, 2) improving tomato tolerance to climate change, 3) improving quality 4) increasing resilience in traditional European tomato by participatory breeding. And additional goal is to increase speed and efficiency in prebreeding what is needed to be able to respond to the emerging challenges in a timely and effective manner. Joint leadership of both academia and industry in each of the WP and the participation of two NGOs representing different stakeholders guarantees the results of the project will have an impact in industry innovation and also in the society. An efficient management and outreach and communication platform is also in place to make sure the project runs smoothly and the interests of all stakeholders are protected

Appel à propositions

H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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Sous appel

H2020-SFS-2020-1

Régime de financement

IA - Innovation action

Coordinateur

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 100 463,75
Adresse
CALLE SERRANO 117
28006 Madrid
Espagne

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Région
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Type d’activité
Research Organisations
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Coût total
€ 1 100 463,75

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