Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TÜBİTAK - AB COST Projesi , 2023 - 2027
Europe faces an increased frequency of drought and heat waves and the
appearance of new diseases. It’s urgent to develop alternatives to
current agricultural systems that highly depend on agrochemicals and
water. CropBiomes grounds on the urgent need for transition to
Sustainable Agriculture ensuring food Security and Safety, aligned with
both GreenDeal and “Farm-to-Fork” strategy. CropBiomes will gather
European experts to coordinate and develop knowledge on crop microbiomes
(and holobiomes) for application in precision sustainable agriculture.
It will exploit technological advances (e.g., engineered microbiomes) to
selectively improve the holobiomes’ resistance to specific environments
like drought and diseases. The knowledge of the crop as a “Holobiont”
responsible for its fitness, as well as the technologies to explore
“hub” taxa to potentiate community-scale networks, and the holobiome
fitness, remain yet underexplored in agriculture.
The networking will be transdisciplinary and balanced (e.g., gender,
researchers-career, countries) and intersectoral, structured to generate
long-lasting impact. The four Working Groups will go beyond the current
state of the art in crop microbiomes. It will define new concepts on
topics like plant-microbiomes’ diversity, distribution, eco-evolution,
crosstalks, and the microbiomes/holobiomes dynamics and crosstalks under
specific environments like soilless systems and environmental stressors
(drought/heat, pathogens). Finally, the Action will explore the plant
microbiome as a source of beneficial associations of microorganisms, and
exploit technologies for engineering the microbiomes (through Synthetic
Communities). The CropBiomes will gather senior and early researchers,
and different stakeholders and contribute to the competitiveness of
Europe in this field.