Coordinatore | UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK
Organization address
address: INNRAIN 52 contact info |
Nazionalità Coordinatore | Austria [AT] |
Totale costo | 3˙825˙630 € |
EC contributo | 2˙930˙937 € |
Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage |
Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
Anno di inizio | 2013 |
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-01-01 - 2016-12-31 |
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1 |
UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK
Organization address
address: INNRAIN 52 contact info |
AT (INNSBRUCK) | coordinator | 370˙223.00 |
2 |
MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
Organization address
address: Hofgartenstrasse 8 contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 427˙990.00 |
3 |
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue De L'Universite 147 contact info |
FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) | participant | 399˙794.00 |
4 |
UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6
Organization address
address: Place Jussieu 4 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 306˙800.00 |
5 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Organization address
address: Kirby Corner Road - University House - contact info |
UK (COVENTRY) | participant | 298˙714.00 |
6 |
LEIBNIZ - INSTITUT FUER PFLANZENGENETIK UND KULTURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG
Organization address
address: CORRENSTRASSE 3 contact info |
DE (GATERSLEBEN) | participant | 295˙858.00 |
7 |
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Organization address
address: WOODHOUSE LANE contact info |
UK (LEEDS) | participant | 273˙476.00 |
8 |
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
Organization address
address: RUE LEBLANC 25 contact info |
FR (PARIS 15) | participant | 194˙295.00 |
9 |
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
Organization address
address: "Patio de Escuelas, 1" contact info |
ES (SALAMANCA) | participant | 191˙700.00 |
10 |
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW
Organization address
address: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW contact info |
UK (RICHMOND) | participant | 165˙307.00 |
11 |
LIMAGRAIN EUROPE
Organization address
address: FERME DE L'ETANG contact info |
FR (VERNEUIL L'ETANG) | participant | 6˙780.00 |
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'Seed quality is of paramount importance to agriculture, food security and the conservation of wild species. Considerable economic losses result from sub-optimal seed performance, undermining food security and livelihoods. Seed quality is strongly influenced by the environmental stresses experienced by the mother plant. Climate change will further exacerbate economic losses and decrease the predictability of seed yield and quality for the farmer. The looming challenges of climate change and food security require new knowledge of how stress impacts on seed quality, as well as a re-appraisal of optimal storage conditions. EcoSeed addresses these challenges by bringing together a group of distinguished European experts in seed science and converging sciences to characterise seed quality and resilience to perturbation. EcoSeed combines state-of the-art 'omics', epigenetics, and post-'omics' approaches, such as nuclear and chromatin compaction, DNA repair, oxidative and post-translational modifications to macromolecules, to define regulatory switchboards that underpin the seed phenotype. Special emphasis is placed on the stress signalling hub that determines seed fate from development, through storage, germination and seedling development, with a particular focus on seed after-ripening, vigour, viability and storability. Translation of new knowledge gained in model to crop and wild species is an integral feature of EcoSeed project design, which will create a step-change in our understanding of the regulatory switchboards that determine seed fate. Novel markers for seed quality and new 'omics' information generated in this project will assist plant breeders, advise the seed trade and conservationists alike. In this way, EcoSeed will not only be proactive in finding solutions to problems of ensuring seed quality and storability but also play a leading role in enabling associated industries to better capture current and emerging markets.'
A new EU-funded initiative is investigating genetic mechanisms that help seeds resist environmental stresses associated with climate change.
Seed quality is one of the most important variables in modern agriculture, and is greatly affected by the environmental conditions experienced by the mother plant. In the face of looming climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the environmental factors that determine seed quality.
The 'Impacts of environmental conditions on seed quality' (http://www.uibk.ac.at/botany/ecoseed/home/ (ECOSEED)) project is addressing this concern by characterising the genetic regulation that determines seed quality. In particular, the project aims to effectively transfer knowledge gained about model species (barley, Brassica species and sunflower) to crop species.
Thus far, project partners have focused on establishing the experimental conditions and genetic starting material needed for the project.
Pilot experiments were completed by exposing both model and crop plants to common environmental stresses like drought and high temperatures. Researchers also defined protocols for bulk seed production and produced several seed batches for further experiments.
ECOSEED furthermore searched for and identified new genetic markers of seed quality, with a particular focus on seed longevity. Researchers collected seeds from wild relatives of the model plant species that were already adapted to hot and dry growing conditions.
In the years to come, the knowledge and techniques generated by ECOSEED will be invaluable to plant breeders, researchers and farmers alike.