Description du projet
De nouveaux outils pour des programmes de sélection des cultures efficaces
À l’horizon 2050, la population mondiale aura augmenté de 34 %, pour atteindre 9,1 milliards d’habitants. Pour nourrir cette population plus nombreuse, la production alimentaire doit augmenter. Accroître la production nécessitera une hausse des rendements et de l’intensité des cultures. Le projet CropYQualT-CEC, financé par l’UE, développera de nouvelles approches technologiques afin de fournir de nouveaux outils pour des programmes de sélection efficaces. Par exemple, il étudiera comment la production agricole sera affectée par l’environnement. Il permettra également d’identifier les cultivars les mieux adaptés et les marqueurs moléculaires conférant un meilleur rendement et une meilleure qualité des grains. Il tentera également de savoir quels traits phénotypiques et moléculaires peuvent fournir les informations les plus pertinentes sur le rendement des cultures. Un quatrième objectif consiste à développer l’utilisation de différentes méthodes de télédétection sur le terrain et en laboratoire. Le projet s’appuiera sur l’ensemble des résultats obtenus pour mettre au point de nouvelles méthodologies.
Objectif
The expansion of world population requires the development of new strategies and tools for agriculture to ensure that high levels of production will accommodate the needs of world population by developing a highly productive and resource efficient agricultural systems. To that end, it is necessary to provide current breeding programs with improved methodologies (traits and protocols) for phenotyping together with a deeper knowledge of the molecular and metabolic mechanisms that modulate plant response to abiotic constraints in terms of yield and quality. Therefore, the development of new technological approaches, such as multispectral sensors and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) is critical to deliver new tools for efficient breeding programs and in field management of crops. The current project has five main objectives: 1st objective is to investigate how will crop (wheat, rice, soybean, maize and quinoa) production and quality will be affected by the environment. 2nd objective is to identify the best adapted cultivars and molecular markers conferring a better grain yield and quality. 3rd objective is to investigate what phenotyping and molecular traits can better inform on crop yield and resource (water, nutrients, radiation) use efficiency. 4th objective is to develop the use of different remote sensing at field and labs levels as strategic tools to determine yield value. 5th objective will be the development of models.
The result will be to build on the strong existing research network of 5 EU academic, 5 non-EU academic institutions and 2 firms. The project pursues the main objective of generating a common solid knowledge basis arising from the fruitful cross-sectorial synergy between forefront research Centers in precision agriculture and industry, in a cross-fertilization multidisciplinary approach that will provide new tests and methodologies (or improve existing ones) to assess. In this proposal, funding is requested for all TC partners.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturegrains and oilseeds
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy
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