BoostCrop SIGNED
Boosting Crop Growth using Natural Product and Synthesis Enabled Solar Harvesting
Total Cost €
0EC-Contrib. €
0Partnership
0Views
0BoostCrop project word cloud
Explore the words cloud of the BoostCrop project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "BoostCrop" about.
Project "BoostCrop" data sheet
The following table provides information about the project.
| Coordinator |
THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Total cost | 4˙940˙403 € |
| EC max contribution | 4˙940˙403 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.2.1. (FET Open) |
| Code Call | H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01 |
| Funding Scheme | RIA |
| Starting year | 2019 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31 |
Partnership
Take a look of project's partnership.
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK | UK (COVENTRY) | coordinator | 769˙352.00 |
| 2 | UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL | UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 892˙695.00 |
| 3 | UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM | NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 844˙805.00 |
| 4 | INSTITUT DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT - AGRO PARIS TECH | FR (PARIS) | participant | 820˙710.00 |
| 5 | BUNDESINSTITUT FUER RISIKOBEWERTUNG | DE (BERLIN) | participant | 483˙296.00 |
| 6 | PLANTRESPONSE BIOTECH SL | ES (POZUELO DE ALARCON) | participant | 405˙250.00 |
| 7 | UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE | FR (Marseille) | participant | 368˙876.00 |
| 8 | STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT | NL (NIJMEGEN) | participant | 355˙418.00 |
Map
Project objective
Cold and freezing stress are important constraints for crops and for horticulture. BoostCrop seeks to reduce such stress by an invention called 'molecular heaters'. These are nature-inspired molecules that absorb solar radiation and convert it to heat energy. The invention would reduce yield losses due to cold stress, extend growth seasons and the geographical locations suitable for agriculture, increase crop yield at high crop density and, concomitantly, reduce greenhouse energy costs. BoostCrop strives to increase food production to feed a continuously growing population, thus tackling a major European and Global Challenge in Food Security. The multidisciplinary research programme outlined in BoostCrop will demonstrate how intrinsic molecular processes that underlie energy transfer, and which occur on timescales of tens of trillionths of a second, can be manipulated such that macroscopic properties are impacted. The targets of the research programme include: (1) applying state-of-the-art experiments and theory to track and understand, in unprecedented detail, energy flow in targeted, nature-inspired molecules; (2) manipulating this energy flow through chemical modification; and (3) developing a suite of molecules to suit the needs of crop growth in the field and under protected (greenhouse) conditions. These molecules will then be applied to crops through an aqueous foliar spray. The proposed research programme offers a transdisciplinary and synergistic approach to developing, and understanding the properties of novel photon-to-molecule heaters. The combined expertise of 6 universities (and staff spanning Chemistry, Physics and Biology), one government institute and an SME with an outstanding track record for developing sustainable agro-technologies will ensure that the longterm vision of BoostCrop, to develop molecular heaters for use in a foliar spray, are met, thereby contributing significantly to Europe’s future technological and Food Security.
Deliverables
| Theory and computation (preliminary results) | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 20:18:13 |
| Spectroscopy (preliminary results) | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 20:18:05 |
| Synthesis (preliminary results) | Documents, reports | 2020-04-09 20:17:58 |
| Data management plan | Open Research Data Pilot | 2020-04-09 20:17:49 |
| Website and project logo | Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. | 2020-04-09 20:17:40 |
Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of BoostCrop deliverables.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |
Matthieu Mention, Amandine Lea Flourat, Cedric Peyrot, Florent Allais Biomimetic regioselective and high-yielding Cu(I)-catalyzed dimerization of sinapate esters in green solvent CyreneTM: towards sustainable antioxidant and anti-UV ingredients published pages: , ISSN: 1463-9262, DOI: 10.1039/d0gc00122h |
Green Chemistry | 2020-03-11 |
Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "BOOSTCROP" project.
For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.
Send me an email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.
Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.
The information about "BOOSTCROP" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.