The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems

• Autores: Bellucci, Elisa; Aguilar, Orlando Mario; Alseekh, Saleh; Bett, Kirstin; Brezeanu, Creola; Cook, Douglas; De la Rosa, Lucía; Delledonne, Massimo; Dostatny, Denise F.; Ferreira, Juan J.; Geffroy, Valérie; Ghitarrini, Sofia; Kroc, Magdalena; Kumar Agrawal, Shiv; Logozzo, Giuseppina; Marino, Mario; Mary Huard, Tristan; McClean, Phil; Meglič, Vladimir; Messer, Tamara; Muel, Frédéric; Nanni, Laura; Neumann, Kerstin; Servalli, Filippo; Străjeru, Silvia; Varshney, Rajeev K.; Vasconcelos, Marta W.; Zaccardelli, Massimo; Zavarzin, Aleksei; Bitocchi, Elena
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING; METABOLOMICS; PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES; SYMBIOSIS
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Food legumes are crucial for all agriculture-related societal challenges, including climate change mitigation, agrobiodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, food security and human health. The transition to plant-based diets, largely based on food legumes, could present major opportunities for adaptation and mitigation, generating significant co-benefits for human health. The characterization, maintenance and exploitation of food-legume genetic resources, to date largely unexploited, form the core development of both sustainable agriculture and a healthy food system. INCREASE will implement, on chickpea (Cicer arietinum), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), lentil (Lens culinaris) and lupin (Lupinus albus and L. mutabilis), a new approach to conserve, manage and characterize genetic resources. Intelligent Collections, consisting of nested core collections composed of single-seed descent-purified accessions (i.e., inbred lines), will be developed, exploiting germplasm available both from genebanks and on-farm and subjected to different levels of genotypic and phenotypic characterization. Phenotyping and gene discovery activities will meet, via a participatory approach, the needs of various actors, including breeders, scientists, farmers and agri-food and non-food industries, exploiting also the power of massive metabolomics and transcriptomics and of artificial intelligence and smart tools. Moreover, INCREASE will test, with a citizen science experiment, an innovative system of conservation and use of genetic resources based on a decentralized approach for data management and dynamic conservation. By promoting the use of food legumes, improving their quality, adaptation and yield and boosting the competitiveness of the agriculture and food sector, the INCREASE strategy will have a major impact on economy and society and represents a case study of integrative and participatory approaches towards conservation and exploitation of crop genetic resources.
Fil: Bellucci, Elisa. Università Politecnica Delle Marche; Italia
Fil: Aguilar, Orlando Mario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular; Argentina
Fil: Alseekh, Saleh. Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology; Alemania. Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology; Bulgaria
Fil: Bett, Kirstin. University of Saskatchewan; Canadá
Fil: Brezeanu, Creola. Staţiunea de Cercetare Dezvoltare Pentru Legumicultură; Rumania
Fil: Cook, Douglas. University of California at Davis; Estados Unidos
Fil: De la Rosa, Lucía. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria; España
Fil: Delledonne, Massimo. Universita di Verona; Italia
Fil: Dostatny, Denise F.. Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute-NRI; Polonia
Fil: Ferreira, Juan J.. Regional Service for Agrofood Research and Development; España
Fil: Geffroy, Valérie. Universite de Paris; Francia. Universite Paris-Saclay;
Fil: Ghitarrini, Sofia. ISEA Srl; Italia
Fil: Kroc, Magdalena. Polish Academy of Sciences; Argentina
Fil: Kumar Agrawal, Shiv. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas; Marruecos
Fil: Logozzo, Giuseppina. University of Basilicata; Italia
Fil: Marino, Mario. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Italia
Fil: Mary Huard, Tristan. Universite Paris-Saclay;
Fil: McClean, Phil. North Dakota State University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Meglič, Vladimir. Agricultural Institute of Slovenia; Eslovenia
Fil: Messer, Tamara. European Research and Project Office GmbH; Alemania
Fil: Muel, Frédéric. Institut Technique des oléagineux, des protéagineux eu du chanvren; Francia
Fil: Nanni, Laura. Università Politecnica Delle Marche; Italia
Fil: Neumann, Kerstin. Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research; Alemania
Fil: Servalli, Filippo. Comunità del Mais Spinato di Gandino; Italia
Fil: Străjeru, Silvia. Suceava Genebank; Rumania
Fil: Varshney, Rajeev K.. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics; India. Murdoch University; Alemania
Fil: Vasconcelos, Marta W.. Universidade Católica Portuguesa; Portugal
Fil: Zaccardelli, Massimo. Council for Agricultural Research and Economics; Italia
Fil: Zavarzin, Aleksei. Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources; Rusia
Fil: Bitocchi, Elena. Università Politecnica Delle Marche; Italia