Project description
Growing drought-resilient barley varieties
Barley is an inherently resilient crop. Compared to other cereals, it’s an excellent model for understanding agricultural responses to climate change. In this context, the EU-funded BarleyMicroBreed project will dig deep into the root system of barley. It will build on the paradigm that optimising the capacity of plant roots to interact with the existing soil microbiota improves crop resource use efficiency and stress resilience. The project will advance our mechanistic understanding of interactions between the crop plant genome, root phenotypic traits and the root-associated microbiota to identify innovative breeding strategies that will lead to drought-adaptive barley varieties. Part of the project’s work will be to study drought responses of 600 barley varieties in Austria, Lebanon and Morocco.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsgenomes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
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Participants (7)
Beirut
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1180 Wien
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1165 Kobenhavn
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664 24 Drasov
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10425 Stockholm
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14476 Potsdam
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
78467 Konstanz
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.