Project description
A boost for pre-breeding activities in the olive sector
Climate change, emerging diseases and genetic erosion threaten olive production worldwide. While olive germplasm banks offer a possible solution, they remain unexploited due to limited development of pre-breeding activities and lack of collaboration and interaction between the germplasm banks and farmers/breeders. The EU-funded GEN4OLIVE project will increase the mobilisation of olive genetic resources and encourage pre-breeding activities by characterising more than 500 varieties and 1 000 wild and ancient genotypes around the topics of climate change, pest and diseases, production and quality and modern planting systems issues. The project will also develop smart ICT tools to make olive genetic resources more accessible to end-users, and enhance breeders’ and growers’ participation through two open calls for supporting pre-breeding activities.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/artificial intelligence
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/atmospheric sciences/climatology/climatic changes
Call for proposal
H2020-SFS-2020-1
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
14005 Cordoba
Spain
Participants (15)
11145 Athina
06000 Ankara
41018 Sevilla
10000 Rabat
41092 Sevilla
14820 Cordoba
41016 Sevilla
10443 Athina
00198 Roma
63755 Alzenau
06100 Tandogan Ankara
18071 Granada
23071 Jaen
00185 Roma
75794 Paris