Objective
SolACE's overarching goal is to help European agriculture facing the challenge to deal with more frequent combined limitations of water and nutrients in the coming decades, through the design of novel crop genotypes and agroecosystem management innovations to improve water and nutrient (i.e. N and P) use efficiency. To achieve this goal, SolACE will focus its activities on three major European crops - potato, bread and durum wheat - and will identify the (i) optimum combinations of above- and below-ground traits for improving resource use efficiency, (ii) best-performing genotypes under combined water and N or P stresses and (iii) novel practices that make better use of plant-plant and plant-microbe interactions to access water, N and P resources in conventional, organic and conservation agriculture. SolACE will implement a double interactive innovation loop, based on agroecosystem management and breeding strategies, and will imply the engagement of diverse end-users, across the production chain, from farmers and farm advisors to NGOs, SMEs and larger industries in the agri-business sector, through the SolACE consortium and a range of stakeholders' events. The tested innovations will include crop genotype mixtures, legume-based crop rotations and cover crops, microbial inoculants, as well as improved decision support systems and hybrids or products from genomic selection and participatory evolutionary breeding schemes. SolACE will implement complementary approaches, from data mining, modelling, phenotyping in high throughput platforms and field conditions, to experiments in research stations and farmers' networks in contrasted pedo-climatic zones. Through the co-design and co-assessment with the end-users of the selected novel breeding and management strategies to increase the overall system resource use efficiency, the findings of SolACE will be deemed acceptable and readily available for dissemination to a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including policy-makers.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata mining
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturegrains and oilseedslegumes
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
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75116 Paris 16
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1210 Wien
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00184 Roma
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5070 Frick
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DD2 5DA Dundee
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1165 Kobenhavn
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34956 Istanbul
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750 07 Uppsala
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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7000 803 Evora
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70599 Stuttgart
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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28040 Madrid
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3003 Bern
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75116 Paris
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71100 Foggia
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2280 Grobbendonk
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1040 Bruxelles
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75015 Paris
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CV8 2LG Kenilworth Warwickshire
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1174 Budapest
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3062 JA Rotterdam
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72070 Tubingen
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31790 Saint Sauveur
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