The European virus Archive – Global (EVA-GLOBAL; https://www.european-virus-archive.com ) is a non-profit organisation including a global network with expertise in virology, consisting of >40 partner laboratories based at EU member state and non-EU institutions. The aim of the project is to collect, amplify, characterize, standardize, authenticate, and distribute viruses and derived products. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 871029. Starting in 2020, plant viruses have been included in EVA-GLOBAL catalogue. Since then, the number of available plant…
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PROTECTION
PROTECTION project aims: creation of innovative products, services and technologies to be applied in agriculture to promote the use of biological control and sustainable defense strategies. General objectives: Selection and application of novel natural bioformulates (i.e. based on microorganisms, or plants extracts) to improve crops production. The implementation of appropriate methods for assessing the persistence of bioformulates. The development, design and application of new diagnostic systems for the qualitative improvement of agro-food productions. The application of plasma technologies to horticultural seeds for surface disinfection and performance improvement. PI: Francesco Vinale…
Read MoreGrapeRescue 2 – Recovery, ex-situ conservation and evaluation of endangered grape cultivars
Grapevine is one of the main crops in Italy. Although 650 wine grape varieties are currently included in the Register, 43% of the national surface under vines is covered by only 10 cultivars. In Piedmont, the 10 most cultivated cover almost 90% of the regional vineyard area. A multi-year activity launched more than 30 years ago by the CNR before the disappearing of many historic vineyards, has led to the recovery and conservation in the ex-situ Grinzane Cavour collection (http://www.ipsp.cnr.it/en/thematics/turin-headquarter-thematics/grinzane-cavour/) a considerable amount of regional inter-varietal diversity with more than…
Read MoreBatRam: Diagnosi di Batteri fitopatogeni mediante spettroscopia Raman e machine learning
The Bat-Ram project plans to apply Raman spectroscopy to rapidly characterize and identify plant pathogenic bacteria, e.g. Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas campestris, Erwinia amylovora, agents of serious bacteriosis on actinidia, bean and pome fruit crops. The technique will be validated on other bacterial species and on various isolates present in the IPSP-CNR collections and in the Piedmont Phytosanitary Services, as well as on new isolates from material collected in the field. The proposed technique will also be useful for rapidly evaluating the in vitro efficacy of antibacterial treatments, opening new avenues…
Read MoreRoot phenotyping and genetic improvement for rotational crops resilient to environmental change
Root2Res, which is a Horizon Europe project, will deliver novel tools to help in designing climate resilient crop rotational systems that are adapted to a range of environments across Europe. Beyond the project, these future-proofed systems will provide plentiful, healthy and nutritious food from crops that are resilient to stress, resource efficient and go some way to mitigate the impact of climate change by sequestering carbon in soils. Root2Res will then contribute to more sustainable and environmentally friendly cropping systems for Europe. Project Leder: Raffaella Maria Balestrini IPSP personnel:…
Read MoreVertical Farming: Development of a prototype to produce high value horticultural crops enriched by bioactive molecules (VertiGrow)
VertiGROW is aimed i) to apply high-efficiency light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to drive production of secondary metabolites (SM) in plants by manipulating light spectral composition and ii) to produce a laboratory prototype of LED powered by beyond-silicon innovative photon-to-electron conversion devices to stimulate crop growth and drive SM production. The activities will be developed thanks to the participation of researchers working in the CNR Institutes IPSP, IMM, Nanotec and ICCOM. Growth of plants in response different frequency of radiation emitted and non-targeted metabolomics analysis will be performed thanks to the participation…
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