SPOT-ITN
Pollen thermotolerance and crop fertility
| Coordinatore | JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Organization address
address: GRUNEBURGPLATZ 1 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Germany [DE] |
| Totale costo | 2˙827˙562 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙827˙562 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN |
| Funding Scheme | MC-ITN |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-01-01 - 2015-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Organization address
address: GRUNEBURGPLATZ 1 contact info |
DE (FRANKFURT AM MAIN) | coordinator | 584˙068.00 |
| 2 |
STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
Organization address
address: GEERT GROOTEPLEIN NOORD 9 contact info |
NL (NIJMEGEN) | participant | 547˙940.00 |
| 3 |
GENXPRO GMBH
Organization address
address: ALTENHOFTER ALLEE 3 contact info |
DE (FRANKFURT) | participant | 329˙431.00 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II.
Organization address
address: Corso Umberto I 40 contact info |
IT (NAPOLI) | participant | 276˙274.00 |
| 5 |
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 273˙969.00 |
| 6 |
THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION OF ISRAEL - THE VOLCANI CENTRE
Organization address
address: Derech Hamcabim 68 contact info |
IL (BET DAGAN) | participant | 269˙891.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITATSRING 1 contact info |
AT (WIEN) | participant | 269˙713.00 |
| 8 |
METAPONTUM AGROBIOS S.R.L.
Organization address
address: "STRADA STATALE IONICA 106 KM. 448,2 - FRAZIONE DI METAPONTO SNC" contact info |
IT (BERNALDA (MT)) | participant | 52˙743.00 |
| 9 |
Agenzia Lucana di Sviluppo e di Innovazione in Agricoltura (ALSIA)
Organization address
address: Via Carlo Levi 6/I contact info |
IT (Matera) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The Marie Curie Initial Training Network SPOT-ITN will establish a multi-site network of early stage and experienced researchers at 9 partner institutions - including 3 from the private sector - in 4 European member countries and Israel to investigate fundamental and applied aspects of thermotolerance mechanisms contributing to the protection of pollen development at increased ambient temperatures. The envisioned joint research program is of broad commercial interest and will be an important contribution to the efforts undertaken world-wide to ensure future stability of food production in view of the prognosticated global climate change. Although the initial focus will be on tomato as an important agricultural crop, the results are expected to become applicable to other cultivated plants in the long run. Based on individual research projects of the young researchers, the main focus of the network will be to perform common, multidisciplinary experiments on a broad variety of heat-sensitive and heat-tolerant tomato genotypes and mutant lines at the molecular, cellular and organismic level with two major objectives: i) to describe the molecular basis of the striking sensitivity of pollen development at higher temperatures and regulation of pollen-specific heat stress response and thermotolerance mechanisms; and ii) to develop BIOMARKERS of POLLEN THERMOTOLERANCE usable in future screening programs to improve breeding of new heat-tolerant cultivars. Besides training of specific research tasks, the multi-disciplinary research program includes advanced methods and high-throughput technologies in plant genetics, molecular and cell biology, physiology, and bioinformatics. In addition, a multitude of opportunities are provided for training complementary skills to broaden the knowledge of the young researchers for developing their future career with comprehensive possibilities in a wide field of research areas in Life Sciences in both, the public and the private sector.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
A research and training network will study markers of heat tolerance in tomato plant pollen.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
The current rapid rate of population growth means that there is more demand for robust and productive crop plants than ever before. One of the difficulties with growing plants in a broad range of climates is that male plants become sterile if environmental temperatures get too high.
One way to address this problem is by identifying variants producing pollen that is tolerant of high temperatures. This is the aim of the EU-funded 'Pollen thermotolerance and crop fertility' (http://www.spot-itn.eu (SPOT-ITN)) project.
Through it, a network of universities and private companies is searching for biochemical markers of pollen thermotolerance. It also provides molecular biology training for young researchers.
So far, researchers have developed a highly sensitive standard protocol for analysing thermotolerance in different pollen stages. SPOT-ITN has also completed a data pipeline to analyse the large amounts of data produced during the project.
More than 30 plant lines have been collected for analysis by SPOT-ITN researchers. Further, several molecular tools to study thermotolerance in pollen have been developed.
Initial analysis of SPOT-ITN data has identified a network of proteins that react to heat in pollen, and it is linked to plant hormone pathways.
Lastly, SPOT-ITN has to date provided training workshops, site visits and research exchanges for 10 young researchers. This research will establish standards for studying thermotolerance in plants and ultimately contribute to improved global food security.