ECOSEED

Impacts of Environmental Conditions on Seed Quality

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK 

 Organization address address: INNRAIN 52
city: INNSBRUCK
postcode: 6020

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Ilse
Cognome: Kranner
Email: send email
Telefono: 435125000000
Fax: 435125000000

 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
city: INNSBRUCK
postcode: 6020

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Ilse
Cognome: Kranner
Email: send email
Telefono: 435125000000
Fax: 435125000000

AT (INNSBRUCK) coordinator 370˙223.00
2    MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

 Organization address address: Hofgartenstrasse 8
city: MUENCHEN
postcode: 80539

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Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Wim
Cognome: Soppe
Email: send email
Telefono: 492215000000
Fax: 492215000000

DE (MUENCHEN) participant 427˙990.00
3    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE

 Organization address address: Rue De L'Universite 147
city: PARIS CEDEX 07
postcode: 75338

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Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Magali
Cognome: Nawrocki-Serin
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 30 83 32 82
Fax: +33 1 30 83 33 19

FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) participant 399˙794.00
4    UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6

 Organization address address: Place Jussieu 4
city: PARIS
postcode: 75252

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Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Stéphanie
Cognome: Rossard
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 144279712
Fax: 33144277467

FR (PARIS) participant 306˙800.00
5    THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

 Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House -
city: COVENTRY
postcode: CV4 8UW

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Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Peter
Cognome: Hedges
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 024 76523859
Fax: +44 024 76524991

UK (COVENTRY) participant 298˙714.00
6    LEIBNIZ - INSTITUT FUER PFLANZENGENETIK UND KULTURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG

 Organization address address: CORRENSTRASSE 3
city: GATERSLEBEN
postcode: 6466

contact info
Nome: Thomas
Cognome: Lüttge
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 39482 5 317
Fax: +49 39482 5 139

DE (GATERSLEBEN) participant 295˙858.00
7    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

 Organization address address: WOODHOUSE LANE
city: LEEDS
postcode: LS2 9JT

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Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Martin
Cognome: Hamilton
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 113 343 4090
Fax: +44 113 343 0949

UK (LEEDS) participant 273˙476.00
8    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

 Organization address address: RUE LEBLANC 25
city: PARIS 15
postcode: 75015

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Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Anja
Cognome: Liszkay
Email: send email
Telefono: 33169081803
Fax: 33169088717

FR (PARIS 15) participant 194˙295.00
9    UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA

 Organization address address: "Patio de Escuelas, 1"
city: SALAMANCA
postcode: 37008

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Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Luis
Cognome: Mediero
Email: send email
Telefono: 34923294416
Fax: 34923294718

ES (SALAMANCA) participant 191˙700.00
10    ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW

 Organization address address: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW
city: RICHMOND
postcode: TW93AB

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Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Hugh
Cognome: Pritchard
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1444 894140

UK (RICHMOND) participant 165˙307.00
11    LIMAGRAIN EUROPE

 Organization address address: FERME DE L'ETANG
city: VERNEUIL L'ETANG
postcode: 77390

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Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Philippe
Cognome: Cayrel
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 04 73 67 47 12

FR (VERNEUIL L'ETANG) participant 6˙780.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'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.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

A new EU-funded initiative is investigating genetic mechanisms that help seeds resist environmental stresses associated with climate change.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

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.

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