Objective
Perennial grasslands occupy 40% of land used by the EU for agriculture, but all high quality forage grasses lack stress resistance. The project co-ordinates multidiscipline groups to combine traditional and novel techniques to develop the means for breeding precisely targeted traits. New robust grass varieties will be created which will improve grassland productivity and persistency, benefit incomes, and help maintain fragile rural communities. Using natural diversity and conventional breeding, combinations of genes governing adaptations to diverse biotic stresses are transferred to chromosome locations in high quality grasses where they are both functional and stable. The project will "dissect" the complex gene systems involved in stress resistance and develop understanding of their function. New mapping technology will locate desirable gene combinations and linkage markers will facilitate their future selection in breeding programmes.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics chromosomes
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Coordinator
SY23 3EB ABERYSTWYTH
United Kingdom
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