How to make crops more resiliant to climate changes
- Project start: 01/09/2022
- Project end: 31/08/2027
- Principal investigator: Lionel DUPUY
- Funder: European Commission
- Programme: HEU-Global Challenges-Cluster 6
- Call: CONV-014
- Reference number: 101060124
- Acronym: ROOT2RES
- Total budget: 6 367 651.25 EUR
- Percentage financed: 100%.
- Partners: ARVALIS INSTITUT DU VEGETAL, THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE, RSK ADAS LIMITED, KWS LOCHOW GMBH, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, IFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU STIFTUNG, INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES, UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN, FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH, HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH, FUNDACION EMPRESA UNIVERSIDAD GALLEGA, NEIKER, ONTWIKKELINGSMAATSCHAPPIJ HET IDEE, WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE, KMETIJSKI INSTITUT SLOVENIJE – AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA, UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL INSTITUTE FOR SOIL CLIMATE AND WATER, TEAGASC – AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AARHUS UNIVERSITET, UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, United Kingdom
- Website: https://root2res.eu/
General objective:
To increase the resilience of cropping systems to climate change impacts by developing innovative tools and characterising species, genotypes and root traits associated with below-ground ideotypes that increase both abiotic stress tolerance and carbon sequestration.
Specific objectives:
- Define, identify and test root/rhizosphere ideotypes for a changing environment in crops common to rotational systems in Europe.
- Define and provide a complete set of tools to consider root traits.
- Identify, develop and multiply germplasm and populations for phenotyping activities at different scales and use the material to identify new candidate genes and markers related to root traits and their plasticity, and enable new pre-improvement germplasm for all crops.
- Quantify the plasticity of the extended root phenotype for germplasm/populations identified in OB3 under a range of environmental conditions, including identification of the relevant root trait, its interrelationship with other traits (trade-offs) and the consequences for carbon sequestration.
- Actively engage with relevant stakeholders and disseminate new knowledge on the use of root and rhizosphere traits to build resilience to environmental change.
