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Titre : FREECLIMB : Fruit crops adaptation to climate change in the Mediterranean basin

Pays/Région : Italy ; Turkey ; Greece ; Egypt ; Tunisia ; Algeria ; Morocco ; France ; Spain

Date : Start date 2019-04-01 End date 2022-03-31

Identifiant : 171-FREECLIMB
Type de projet : Applied research project

Contexte
The climatic scenario predicted for the Mediterranean areas poses specific challenges for agricultural productions. The vulnerability of agricultural sectors to the modification of agro-climatic conditions depends on both the expected regional climate change and the sectors’ ability to adapt. For their perennial status, fruit tree crops are particularly exposed to environmental change. Quality and quantity of fruit productions are strongly affected by genotype x environment interactions.

Objectif
The FREECLIMB project is built to match topic 2.1 of the PRIMA framework in developing smart and sustainable farming systems in Mediterranean countries, to preserve natural resources (water and land use) by increasing production efficiency. This will be pursued by advancing knowledge on mechanisms of plant environmental adaptation and biotic/abiotic stress resilience. The project targets major fruit tree species with the aim of improving the availability of breeding and germplasm material adapted to limited external resources (input) and future climatic scenarios predicted for the Mediterranean area, through the characterization and exploitation of local biodiversity. The project will focus on key ideotypes elaborated in collaboration with Fruit Farming Actors (FFAs, breeders, nurseries, growers) with the core objective of providing a toolkit (diverse germplasm, tools and methods) to accelerate exploitation, breeding and selection of resilient varieties in key traditional fruit crops of Mediterranean agriculture (stone fruits such as peach, apricot and almond ; Citrus spp. ; grape and olive).

Coordinateur : University of Milan
Partenaires : Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) University of Catania National Research Council, Italy (CNR) Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER (ELGO) Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources (IPBGR) Cukurova University (CUNI) Agricultural Research Centre (ARC), Egypt Olive Institute École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique (ENSA) Frères Mentouri Constantine 1 University Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-MAROC) Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie (UMR 1332 BFP)

Financement principal : Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) (H2020)
Budget : 1 680 950 EUR

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