Num. Contratto:
634561

Coordinatore: CSIC - SPANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (Spagna)

Responsabile ENEA: GIULIANO GIOVANNI - SSPT-BIOAG (CASACCIA)

Ruolo ENEA: PARTNER

Sito Web: http://traditom.eu/

Programma Quadro: HORIZON 2020

Programma UE: Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and the Bioeconomy - Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy

Area Tematica: Life sciences - food safety

Tipo Progetto: RIA - Research and Innovation Action

Descrizione:

Tomato is the second most consumed vegetable in the EU and a major dietary source of many nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants. Modern tomato breeding has resulted in uniform, high-yielding tomato cultivars, whose cultivation is wide-spread and has progressively replaced the use of traditional varieties. The strong focus on yield and pathogen resistance has resulted in a loss of taste in modern cultivars, a general complain of European consumers. The aim of the EU-funded research project TRADITOM is to valorise the genetic diversity stored in traditional tomato varieties in order to protect them from genetic erosion and the replacement by more productive modern cultivars. TRADITOM is a multidisciplinary translational, multi-actor research project bringing together scientists working in academia, local farmers communities, consumer experts and small seed companies that have preserved the local germplasm. Genetic, epigenetic and phenotypic variability and knowledge from farms and in public repositories will be concentrated in a TRADITOM database and seed repository. The available genetic and phenotypic variability present in TRADITOM varieties, and the genetic and epigenetic differences from modern cultivars will be assessed. For varieties whose cultivation is not sustainable due to unacceptably low yield and/ or pathogen resistance, novel F1 hybrids will be generated, retaining the quality characteristics of traditional varieties and incorporating yield and disease resistance traits. Finally, traditional varieties and the impact of traditional cultivation methods will be valorised through a thorough characterization of their composition in terms of flavour- and health-related compounds, the identification of consumer preferences, the evaluation of socio-economic factors limiting their market diffusion, and the protection of the most significant case studies through PDO or PGI denominations.

Attività svolta da ENEA:

ENEA will lead the following tasks: - 3.1 Evaluation of nutrition-related chemical composition and 3.3 Response of the metabolome to the environment and correlation of the metabolome with shelf-life and ENEA will participate in the following tasks: 1.1 Seed collection - 1.4 Phenotyping of plant material 2.1 Genotyping of traditional varieties 2.2 Analysis of genotyping data 4.1 Survey on farm and public germplasm for differences in shelf life trait 7.4 Phenotypic atlas of improved Traditom varieties 8.3 Identification of genomic regions discriminating between modern cultivars and traditional tomato varieties

Note:

Scadenza del contratto prorogata dal 28 febbraio 2018 al 31 agosto 2018.

Posizione:
1362

Codice Atto:
07N84

Atto di approvazione ENEA:
92/2015/COMM

Unità alla stipula:
UTAGRI-GEN

Costo eleggibile del Progetto: 4.372.015,00

Contributo al Progetto: 4.372.015,00

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Costo eleggibile per ENEA: 460.500,00

Contributo ad ENEA: 460.500,00

Anno di stipula:
2015

Durata in mesi:
36

Data di inizio:
01-03-2015

Data di scadenza:
31-08-2018