Project description
Evolving three-parent technology to improve crops and seed varieties
Changes in climate extremes (e.g. heatwaves, floods and drought) require new breeding technologies to allow farmers to achieve high yields with climate-robust crops. The EU-supported bi-BLOCK project discovered that plant egg cells can fuse with two sperm to produce offspring with three parents instead of two (one mother and two fathers). This is known as three-parent breeding technology. Together with the TriVolve project, the strategy was successfully transferred to sugar beet as an experimental crop prototype. In this context, the EU-funded 3P-Tec project will pave the way for the development of the 3P-Tec technology for further crop plants including potato. It will also advance the establishment of technologies that enhance the efficiency of obtaining three parent plants, and the commercial exploitation of 3P-Tec are aims of this project.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based
Coordinator
28359 Bremen
Germany
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Participants (2)
8308 PB Nagele
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
37574 Einbeck
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