SWEETFUEL

Sweet Sorghum : an alternative energy crop

 Coordinatore CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT 

 Organization address address: Rue Scheffer 42
city: PARIS
postcode: 75116

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Daniel
Cognome: Sannie
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 4 67 61 55 12
Fax: 33467614455

 Nazionalità Coordinatore France [FR]
 Totale costo 5˙120˙946 €
 EC contributo 2˙967˙975 €
 Programma FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
 Code Call FP7-KBBE-2008-2B
 Funding Scheme CP-SICA
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-01-01   -   2014-06-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT

 Organization address address: Rue Scheffer 42
city: PARIS
postcode: 75116

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Daniel
Cognome: Sannie
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 4 67 61 55 12
Fax: 33467614455

FR (PARIS) coordinator 506˙825.00
2    INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS

 Organization address address: N/A
city: ANDHRA PRADESH
postcode: 502 324

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Rajesh
Cognome: Agrawal
Email: send email
Telefono: +91 40 30713071
Fax: +91 40 30713074

IN (ANDHRA PRADESH) participant 382˙500.00
3    EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUARIA

 Organization address address: Parque Estacao Biologica - PqEB s/n
city: BRASILIA
postcode: 70770901

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Robert
Cognome: Schaffert
Email: send email
Telefono: +55 31 3779 1076
Fax: +55 31 3779 1088

BR (BRASILIA) participant 374˙050.00
4    ifeu - Institut fuer Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg Gmbh

 Organization address address: Wilckensstrasse 3
city: HEIDELBERG
postcode: 69120

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Guido
Cognome: Reinhardt
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 6221 4767 31
Fax: +49 6221 4767 19

DE (HEIDELBERG) participant 347˙800.00
5    ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

 Organization address address: Via Zamboni 33
city: BOLOGNA
postcode: 40126

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Andrea
Cognome: Monti
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 347 9709397
Fax: +39 51 2096241

IT (BOLOGNA) participant 268˙250.00
6    KWS SAAT AG

 Organization address address: Grimsehlstrasse 31
city: EINBECK
postcode: 37555

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Robert
Cognome: Heidhues
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 5561 311 351
Fax: +49 5561 311 540

DE (EINBECK) participant 263˙500.00
7    UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE

 Organization address address: Largo Agostino Gemelli 1
city: MILANO
postcode: 20123

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Libero
Cognome: Ranelli
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0523 599122
Fax: +39 0523 599124

IT (MILANO) participant 253˙250.00
8    AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ARC)

 Organization address address: "1134 Park Street, Hatfield"
city: PRETORIA
postcode: 83

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Piet
Cognome: Van Der Merwe
Email: send email
Telefono: +27 18 299 6215
Fax: +27 18 293 0682

ZA (PRETORIA) participant 206˙375.00
9    Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon

 Organization address address: Av. Universidad s/n
city: San Nicolas de los Garza
postcode: 66428

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Nora Luisa
Cognome: Salas De La Rosa
Email: send email
Telefono: +52 81 83294032
Fax: +52 81 83763076

MX (San Nicolas de los Garza) participant 187˙250.00
10    WIRTSCHAFT UND INFRASTRUKTUR GMBH & CO PLANUNGS KG

 Organization address address: SYLVENSTEINSTRASSE 2
city: MUENCHEN
postcode: 81369

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Christine
Cognome: Meyer-Haege
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 89 720 12 719
Fax: +49 89 720 12 791

DE (MUENCHEN) participant 178˙175.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Increasing world market prices for fossil fuels, driven by limited reserves, growing demand and instability in producing regions, now render renewable fuels economical. Such fuels are also a pathway to reducing GHG emissions and mitigating climate change. Bio-ethanol from crop plants is a promising, partial solution to sustainably satisfy the energy demand for road transport. The success of bio-ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil demonstrates proof of concept but cannot be transferred to water-limited or temperate environments. Sweet sorghum, as a source of either fermentable free sugars or lignocellulosics, has many potential advantages, including: high water, nitrogen and radiation use efficiency; broad agro-ecological adaptation; rich genetic diversity for useful traits; and the potential to produce fuel feedstock, food and feed in various combinations. Fuel-food crops can thereby help reconciling energy and food security issues. This project will breed for improved cultivars and hybrids of sorghum for temperate, tropical semi-arid and tropical acid-soil environments by pyramiding in various combinations, depending on region and ideotype, tolerance to cold, drought and acid (Al-toxic) soils; and high production of stalk sugars, easily digestible biomass and grain (WP 1-3). Molecular-genetic and physiological breeding support is given by WP4, and agro-ecological adaptation and sustainable practices are developed by WP5. Other WPs (6, 7, 8) provide for integrated technology and impact assessments including economics, dissemination and coordination. The Consortium is composed of 10 members from France (leader), Italy, Germany, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa, including a seed company. Research involves structured participation of stake holders, including policy makers. Project outcomes will be new germplasm, sustainable practices and commodity chain concepts adapted to each target region. The duration of the project is 5 years.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Sweet sorghum has many advantages over other crops when it comes to producing sugar for biofuel. A large international consortium has developed new hybrids, crop models and sustainability analyses to assist in exploitation in numerous environments.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Sorghum is a multipurpose crop producing food and feed as well as fuel from sugars in the stem. The bottleneck to date has been the lack of sorghum varieties available for production of ethanol. The 'Sweet sorghum: an alternative energy crop' (http://www.sweetfuel-project.eu/ (SWEETFUEL)) project pooled resources to breed strains of sweet sorghum that would maximise its productivity.

Composed of members from Europe, India, Mexico, South Africa and South America, the multidisciplinary group represented all the different regions where sweet sorghum is grown. Breeding objectives were tailored to the range of weather and social conditions under which the crop is cultivated.

Several hybrids with better tolerance to cold temperatures, acid soils with aluminium toxicity or improved water-use efficiency were produced and tested for the first time. Some produced more biomass than commercially available lines in the temperate zone. The team also screened candidates for drought resilience and for high sugar in India, South Africa and Mexico. Improved hybrids were developed for these conditions.

Variety and hybrid development and industrial management practices for Brazil was particularly successful. The team has contributed to delivery of some hybrids adapted to low fertility environments that are now available on the market. A partnership with the sugarcane sector is developing sweet sorghum to complement the sugar cane production during the off season. According to the plan, 20 % of the sugarcane land could be used for sweet sorghum production.

In silico experiments helped identify genes involved in the drought response and experimental work is revealing agronomic indicators that predict optimised biomass yield in sorghum. The team also identified post-harvest techniques and logistics leading to development of a crop model. It will be used for geographic zoning of crop adaptation to climate and soils. . Finally a full sustainability assessment identified the most sustainable sweet and biomass sorghum pathways which include high greenhouse gas savings next to other benefits for environment and society. At the final project meeting, researchers presented a multi-criteria evaluation of the sustainability of sorghum production and use.

Knowledge gained will be used to publish a handbook outlining essential information for ethanol production in the target environments. This will empower stakeholders to make changes that positively impact their economies, food production and energy security.

A video titled http://www.sweetfuel-project.eu/sweetfuel_events/complementation_of_sugar_cane_by_sweet_sorghum_in_brazil (Complementation of sugar cane by sweet sorghum in Brazil) is available on the project website.

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