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TowArds Next GENeration Crops


Optimizing biotechnological procedures for growth
Providing enough food for the world's growing population in a sustainable way in the face of climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. New breeding techniques based on genome editing provide a unique opportunity to use knowledge of basic principles of plant biology to produce crops with desirable traits. This large-scale multidisciplinary project aims at uncovering the molecular mechanisms responsible for plant adaptation to abiotic stress, optimising biotechnological approaches to apply new knowledge in breeding varieties with new traits, promoting the transfer of new knowledge into breeding practice and improving public awareness of new breeding techniques. The project focuses on crops such as barley, oilseed rape, pea and others, and uses the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to study basic molecular processes.
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