Description du projet
Renforcer l’aquaculture des algues marines en Europe
La culture des algues marines est le secteur aquacole qui connaît la croissance la plus rapide en Europe. L’industrie européenne des algues marines (ou du goémon) a jeté son dévolu sur Palmaria palmata, une espèce d’algue rouge, en raison de sa forte teneur en protéines (entre 20 et 35 %), de ses minéraux essentiels et de sa saveur agréable. Toutefois, l’aquaculture actuelle utilise encore des variétés sauvages de Palmaria cueillies au hasard. Le projet ASPIRE, relevant des Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA), développera des souches d’algues à croissance rapide en identifiant et en caractérisant des variétés de Palmaria résistantes et à haut rendement. Le projet utilisera des outils de séquençage et de bioinformatique avancés (pipeline TASSEL) pour identifier les marqueurs biochimiques et génétiques des souches de Palmaria à rendement élevé. ASPIRE mettra en place une base de données web innovante (MySQL, VueJS) et mènera des essais à même l’exploitation pour valider la productivité des variétés d’élite de goémon sélectionnées.
Objectif
The ASPIRE project will develop fast growing seaweed strains to strengthen Europe’s potential to thrive in an emerging seaweed aquaculture industry. Seaweed cultivation is the fastest growing aquaculture sector and provides huge potential for market growth in Europe. The red algae Palmaria palmata is one of the target species of a growing European seaweed industry due to its high content of protein (20–35%), essential minerals and its appealing flavour. Recently, there has been significant advancements in the aquaculture procedures for Palmaria, but these approaches are still mainly built on the utilisation of randomly collected wild-types of Palmaria. A targeted strain selection has therefore huge potential to increase the prospects of Palmaria aquaculture in Europe. The objective of the ASPIRE project is to screen and characterise high- yielding and robust Palmaria strains. This will be implemented utilising high-throughput phenotyping technologies using performance screening (growth, morphology characteristics and photosynthetic parameters) and metabolomic analysis (primary/secondary metabolites using GC-MS, spectrophotometer, NMR etc.). These results in conjunction with next generation sequencing (Illumina seq.) and bioinformatics tools (TASSEL pipeline) will be utilised to identify both biochemical and genetic markers of high-yielding Palmaria strains. To ensure that the results have a high impact and find their way to the commercial end-user, the project will establish a novel and easy-to-use web-based database (MySQL, VueJS) specifically designed for use by the aquaculture stakeholders. The ASPIRE project will conduct farm-level trials to validate the advantages of growing the selected elite seaweed strains in terms of productivity and overall biomass quality. The multi-disciplinary project will set the bases for an urgently needed modern seaweed breeding programme to further develop the emerging European seaweed aquaculture sector.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologyphycology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteins
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
H91 Galway
Irlande