HARNESSTOM
Harnessing the value of tomato genetic resources for now and the future
Informazioni Generali
- Coordinatore:
- CSIC - SPANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (Spagna)
- Responsabile:
- GIULIANO GIOVANNI - SSPT-AGROS (CASACCIA)
- Ruolo ENEA:
- PARTNER
- Sito WEB:
- http://harnesstom.eu/en/index.html
Programmi Europei
- Programma:
- HORIZON 2020 -> Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and the Bioeconomy (IA - Innovation Action)
Descrizione e Attività
Descrizione Generale
Tomato is a paradigm of crop domestication: a widely cultivated and consumed vegetable but with reduced genetic diversity and therefore highly vulnerable to emerging diseases and climate change. Fortunately, tomato is rich in genetic resources and information to overcome those difficulties and a coalition of scientists and breeding experts which have generated a large amount of this information have been organized under an effective management structure and a series of objectives to overcome those threats. HARNESSTOM aims to demonstrate that increasing use of Genetic Resources is key for food safety and security and can lead to innovation and benefit all stakeholders. By capitalizing on the large effort done recently in several EU-funded projects to connect phenotypes/genotypes in a large number of accessions from different germplasm banks and academia, HARNESSTOM will first collect, centralize and normalize this wealth of information in a way that is easily searchable and displayed in a user-friendly manner adapted to different type of users. Second, HARNESSTOM will develop four prebreeding programs addressing the major challenges of the field: 1) introducing resistances against major emerging diseases, 2) improving tomato tolerance to climate change, 3) improving quality 4) increasing resilience in traditional European tomato by participatory breeding. And additional goal is to increase speed and efficiency in prebreeding what is needed to be able to respond to the emerging challenges in a timely and effective manner. Joint leadership of both academia and industry in each of the WP and the participation of two NGOs representing different stakeholders guarantees the results of the project will have an impact in industry innovation and also in the society. An efficient management and outreach and communication platform is also in place to make sure the project runs smoothly and the interests of all stakeholders are protected
Attività svolta da ENEA
ENEA coordina il WP4 (Tools to increase the speed, efficiency and precision of breeding) e partecipa ai seguenti WP:
. 1 Project Management and Coordination
. 2 Societal issues. Stakeholder engagement and project dissemination; legislation and public acceptance; ethics
. 3 One-stop-shop for tomato GenRes information, visualization and prebreeding tools
. 7 Improving fruit quality
. 9 Global assessment of advanced materials, marketing strategy, life cycle assessment
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