Project description
A closer look at the roots of crop rotation
Climate change is a growing pressure on the agricultural industry. Aiming to deliver crops adapted to changing environments, the EU-funded Root2Res project will enhance the resilience of rotational cropping systems. It will consider the relevant root traits with respect to the impact of climate change. Innovations include phenotyping, genetic and modelling tools that will help breeders evaluate novel and existing genotypes of a range of crops (cereals, potatoes, legumes) as root ideotypes for different soil and climatic environments across Europe. It will also investigate the potential role of emerging crops (sweet potato, lentil) to enhance resilience to environmental change.
Objective
Root2Res will deliver a package of solutions to enhance the resilience of rotational cropping system by considering relevant root traits with respect to the impact of climate change. Innovations will include phenotyping, genetic and modelling tools that will help breeders evaluate, in field and controlled conditions, novel and existing genotypes of a range of crops (Cereals, Potatoes, Legumes) as root ideotypes for different soil and climatic environments across Europe. Root2Res will also investigate the potential role of emerging crops (Sweet potato, Lentil) to enhance resilience to environmental change, by assessing their genotypic and phenotypic variation. The environments targeted include those predicted to suffer from the largest impact of climate change on yield in Europe. Resilience to stress will focus on greater variation in water availability (both drought and waterlogging) and interactions with other stresses (temperature, reduced nutrient availability). We will also consider the impact of novel understanding of the plasticity of traits to stress. Traits to be assessed will focus on exploration, exploitation and rhizosphere microbiome related traits integrated in an extended phenotype. The impacts of the more resilient ideotypes designed in Root2Res on the delivery of climate change mitigation outcomes (soil carbon sequestration, nutrient utilisation and greenhouse gas emission) will be assessed in field. Root2Res will integrate a strong interaction with stakeholders all through the project, particularly breeders and farmers. The ambition of Root2Res is to deliver crops adapted to changing environments and able to mitigate climate change, by utilising existing genetic diversity for breeding programs in a range of crop species essential to cropping systems and then widening understanding to crops suitable for resilient future systems. This ambition will be supported by the joined commitment of a multidisciplinary partnerships across Europe and beyond.
Fields of science
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based managementclimate change adaptation
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturegrains and oilseedscereals
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturegrains and oilseedslegumes
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
75116 Paris
France
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Participants (17)
29303 Bergen
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Beirut
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00185 Roma
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08140 Caldes De Montbui Barcelona
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1180 Wien
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52428 Julich
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04318 Leipzig
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15705 Santiago De Compostela
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48160 Vizcaya
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3062 JA Rotterdam
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
6708 PB Wageningen
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60121 Ancona
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1000 Ljubljana
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36310 Vigo Pontevedra
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0001 Pretoria
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R93 Carlow
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8000 Aarhus C
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Partners (4)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
5070 Frick
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DD2 5DA Dundee
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
WA6 0AR Cheshire
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
DD1 4HN Dundee
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