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INnovations in plant VarIety Testing in Europe to foster the introduction of new varieties better adapted to varying biotic and abiotic conditions and to more sustainable crop management practices (INVITE)

Description:

The objective of INVITE project is to foster the introduction of new varieties better adapted to varying biotic and abiotic conditions and to more sustainable crop management practices.

In the context where agriculture is increasingly being urged to reduce its dependency on external inputs, lower its environmental footprint and cope with more variable climatic conditions, INVITE aims to help the valorisation and the promotion of varieties that are more adapted to sustainable management practices, and more resilient to climate change. This will be exemplified on ten selected species (apple, fodder grass, sunflower, soybean, wheat, maize, potato, tomato, oilseed rape, and lucerne) representing the main features of propagation, food and feed uses, and having an important breeding activity at EU level.

INVITE will identify bioindicators associated with plant resource use efficiency, sustainability and resilience. It will develop new phenotyping and genotyping tools to measure them. INVITE will implement models and statistical tools allowing to predict variety performance under a range of environments and crop management practices, while considering the economic return for farmers. The tools and methods will be made available for examinations offices (including Value for Cultivation and Use – VCU) and post registration organisations to improve efficiency and accuracy of DUS (Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability) and variety performance testing and to integrate sustainability criteria. INVITE will also propose organisational innovations to improve the management of variety testing networks and reference collections. INVITE will propose guidelines to policy makers for including new traits and improving harmonisation of DUS and VCU at EU level, and for the testing of heterogeneous plant reproductive material. The outputs of the project will be available to all the relevant stakeholders thanks to an active and open dissemination policy; particularly by delivering a Decision Support System for Variety Choice.

Project information

Lead

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, France

Partners

UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS, France
UNIVERSITAET HOHENHEIM, Germany
FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU STIFTUNG, Switzerland
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, Netherlands
STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands
TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Ireland
INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES, Spain
THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE, United Kingdom
EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG, Switzerland
CENTRO DI SPERIMENTAZIONE LAIMBURG, Italy
CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIA, Italy
CENTRE WALLON DE RECHERCHES AGRONOMIQUES, Belgium
INSTYTUT OGRODNICTWA, Poland
COMMUNITY PLANT VARIETY OFFICE, France
STICHTING NEDERLANDSE ALGEMENE KWALITEITSDIENST TUINBOUW, Netherlands
BUNDESSORTENAMT, Germany
GROUPE D'ETUDE ET DE CONTROLE DES VARIETES ET DES SEMENCES, France
NIAB, United Kingdom
OSTERREICHISCHE AGENTUR FUR GESUNDHEIT UND ERNAHRUNGSSICHERHEIT GMBH, Austria
CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR SUPERVISING AND TESTING IN AGRICULTURE, Czechia
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT, United Kingdom
NEMZETI ELELMISZERLANC-BIZTONSAGI HIVATAL, Hungary
Association de Coordination Technique Agricole, France
EUROPEAN SEED ASSOCIATION, Belgium
NPZ INNOVATION GMBH, Germany
BETTER3FRUIT NV, Belgium
ARCADIA INTERNATIONAL, Belgium
INRAE TRANSFERT SAS, France

Source of funding

H2020-EU.3.2.1.1. - Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience

Published in Climate-ADAPT May 03 2021   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Mar 05 2024

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