Objective
The objective of GenTORE is to develop innovative genome-enabled selection and management tools to optimise cattle resilience and efficiency (R&E) in widely varying environments. These tools, incorporating both genetic and non-genetic variables, will be applicable across the full range of systems (beef, milk and mixed), and will thereby increase the economic, environmental and social sustainability of European cattle meat and milk production systems. To achieve this, GenTORE brings together: 1) multidisciplinary scientific expertise in genomics, environmental assessment, nutritional physiology, health management, precision livestock farming, mathematical modelling, and socio-economics; 2) partners and stakeholders representing breeding organisations, farm technology companies, farm and veterinary advisory services, and farm sectors (organic, grazing, etc.); and 3) a unique data basis including >1 million genotypes.
This multi-actor team will develop tools for: multi-breed selection for R&E, characterisation of diverse farm environments, large-scale phenotyping of R&E using on-farm technology, on-farm management of breeding and culling decisions, and predicting the consequences for farm resilience of changing breeding and management. These tools are designed to be applicable under commercial conditions at the end of the project. They will allow increased use of the genomic diversity in cattle breeds, e.g. use of selective cross-breeding to best exploit the local production environment. They will also allow farm managers, their advisors, and policy-makers, to assess the relative importance of breeding for animal resilience vs breeding for efficiency, with respect to system resilience. As such GenTORE will not only enable the use of genomic information to facilitate predictive biology of efficiency- and resilience-related traits, but will also increase resilience of livestock production in the face of current and future challenges of climate change and food security.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsgenomes
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation action
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75007 Paris Cedex 07
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Participants (25)
8000 Aarhus C
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R93 Carlow
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85354 Freising
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50059 Zaragoza
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00161 Roma
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2905 AT Capelle Aan Den Ijssel
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5070 Frick
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78 446 Silnowo
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75015 Paris
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75012 Paris
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35042 Rennes
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49220 Thorigne-d'anjou
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74330 Poisy
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50000 Saint Lo
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71000 Macon
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6709 PA Wageningen
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HG4 2QR Ripon
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35150 Janze
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EH9 3JG Edinburgh
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6708 PB Wageningen
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750 07 Uppsala
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8960 Randers
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75595 Paris Cedex 12
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25003 Lleida
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35122 Padova
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