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ROOTED · Root Phenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

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2023-01-01 → 2027-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС
2 740 522 €
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16
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Накратко на български

Кореновите системи на растенията и начинът, по който те усвояват вода и хранителни вещества от почвата, са в центъра на анализа. По-доброто разбиране на тези процеси помага за увеличаване на добива на храна при по-малко вреда за околната среда.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Root Phenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network

Soil is a finite resource, but the land we currently grow on is significantly degraded in many regions of the world. There is no more land that can be reclaimed for agricultural production, therefore one of the major food challenges we face in the 21st Century is how to maximise the productivity of our land, while limiting negative environmental impact. A deeper understanding of the interactions between soils and plants and where they take up water and nutrients may support sustainable intensification of agricultural production. The challenge of ensuring food security provides the impetus for ROOTED (Root Phenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network). ROOTED will consolidate the complimentary expertise of an international, interdisciplinary, multisectoral team to train a new generation of strong, resilient, flexible and creative scientists capable of innovating the fields of plant and soil sciences to actively contribute to the goal of doubling food production in a sustainable manner by 2050 to feed the growing world population. Root systems make up approximately one half of most plants and perform several key functions, for example taking up sufficient water and nutrients and anchoring the plant into the ground to keep it upright. Yet, root systems are often forgotten about in crop breeding programmes and our knowledge about how they grow and function is limited, as soil is opaque, so they are hidden from view. Root phenotyping is the quantification of the collective expression of the genotype in conjunction with the environment on a plant's observable morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. Yet, humanity’s knowledge regarding root systems and how they capture resources in soils is crucial to improving precision agricultural technology. The overarching research aim of ROOTED is to comprehensively determine the underlying constraints impeding optimum soil exploration by roots. To achieve our research goal, ROOTED is based upon the following Research Objectives: Research Objective 1 (RO1): To develop a deeper understanding of the environmental constraints to root exploration in soil and determine the extent to which the biological interactions impact root phenotypes (WP1-2) Research Objective 2 (RO2): To push our knowledge boundaries regarding root plasticity in relation to nutrient availability to enable better trait targets for breeding programmes (WP3). Research Objective 3 (RO3): Compile an open image repository of varied root phenotypes and associated ground truth measurements (WP4).

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

A deeper understanding of the interactions between soils and plants, especially at the root zone, where they take up waterand nutrients may support sustainable intensification of agricultural production. Research is indicating that a greaterunderstanding of roots and soil functions may lead to increases in crop yields, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions fromsoils, enhanced productivity in grasslands and reductions in fertilizer requirements to land. However, data gaps remain in ourunderstanding of how plant roots interact with their environment from a physiological and phenotypic perspective. PlantPhenotyping has been described as the bottleneck to food security, yet the real bottleneck to plant phenotyping is thought tobe image analysis and processing. The challenge of ensuring food security provides the impetus for ROOTED (RootPhenotyping Integrated Educational Doctoral Network). ROOTED will apply deep learning and artificialintelligence to speed up data generation in root phenotyping. Agriculture is increasingly using digital technologies, butcurrently 44% of the European workforce do not have these basic skills. This is a severe skills gap that Europe needs toclose urgently to avoid economic downturn. ROOTED will consolidate the complimentary expertise of an international,interdisciplinary, multisectoral team to train a new generation of creative, resilient, adaptive multi-skilled scientists capable ofinnovating the fields of plant and soil sciences to actively contribute to the goal of doubling food production in a sustainablemanner by 2050. Soil health and food is one of the 5 mission areas for Horizon Europe and the findings from ROOTEDwould be directly applicable to the EU’s Green deal and a Soil Deal for Europe. ROOTED graduates will have a level of scientific, communication and digital skills mastery that enables them to move straight into employment in agri-food businesses, seed and breedingcompanies, advisory and scientific roles.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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