Descrizione del progetto
Nuovi strumenti per programmi di coltivazione efficiente
Entro il 2050, la popolazione mondiale aumenterà del 34 %, raggiungendo i 9,1 miliardi. Per nutrire una popolazione più vasta, occorre aumentare la produzione alimentare, e tale aumento di produzione è legato all’intensificazione dei rendimenti e delle coltivazioni. Il progetto CropYQualT-CEC finanziato dall’UE realizzerà nuovi approcci tecnologici in grado di offrire nuovi strumenti per programmi di coltivazione efficiente. Ad esempio, esaminerà il modo in cui l’ambiente influisce sulla produzione agricola, e individuerà le cultivar meglio adattate e i marcatori molecolari che conferiscono al cereale qualità e rendimenti migliori. Infine, studierà quali tratti molecolari e di fenotipizzazione possono darci informazioni migliori sul rendimento delle colture. Un quarto obiettivo è quello di estendere l’utilizzo di diversi strumenti di telerilevamento sia sul campo sia in laboratorio. Il progetto attingerà da tutti i risultati raccolti per sviluppare nuove metodologie.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinatore
28006 Madrid
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