SolACE: Solutions for improving Agroecosystem and Crop Efficiency for water and nutrient use

SolACE goal is to help European agriculture facing major challenges, notably increased rainfall variability and reduced use of N and P fertilizers for both economic and ecological purposes

Date de début de projet

01/06/2017

Date de fin du projet

30/04/2022

Objectives

The main goal is to design solutions (strategies and tools) that combine novel crop genotypes and agroecosystem management innovations to improve water and nutrient use efficiency in a range of agricultural contexts across pedoclimatic regions of Europe and farming systems.

Location

Europe, Turkey

Description

Partner teams will test crop genotype mixtures, legume-based crop rotations and cover crops, microbial inoculants, as well as improved decision support systems and hybrids or products from genomic selection and participatory evolutionary breeding schemes.

SolACE will focus its activities on three major European crops - potato, bread and durum wheat.

Partnership

25 European partners from 14 countries including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweeden, UK

Team

Evolutionary genomics and population management (GE²pop)

Fundings

European Union (H2020 SFS-01-2016)

Keywords

Agroecosystems, fertilization, crop varietal mixtures, durum wheat, bread wheat, potato