Networking with ADAPT #4
Networking activity Modelling workshop jointly organised Date 03/2023 Link News
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ADAPT – Developing heat and drought stress tolerant potatoes Copy
What is it about? ADAPT will determine the molecular and phenotypical responses of potatoes to combined environmental stress conditions such as heat, drought and flooding, which are becoming increasingly important for potato yield under the challenging growth conditions of the future due to climate change. Arising from a mechanistic understanding, we aim to identify new breeding targets…
UNTWIST in the Austrian Media and Beyond
The UNTWIST project has received great response in the Austrian media. Several articles were published in newspapers (Der Standard, Kurier, Die Presse), for which the project coordinator Claudia Jonak gave interviews. In addition, an article about UNTWIST was published in Chemiereport, an Austrian magazine for business, technology, and research. UNTWIST articles UNTWIST was…
Camelina day – UNTWIST field days
Tuesday, the 4th of July at 2:00 p.m., INRAE, Versailles This day provides an opportunity to present the European UNTWIST project, which aims to understand camelina’s tolerance mechanisms to water and heat stress while adapting it to different cropping modalities. It also provides an opportunity to visit trial plots and discuss the potential and challenges…
Networking with CARINA project
In the framework of Networking activities with other projects, UNTWIST has linked up with CARINA which it plans to carry out collaborative actions in the coming months, in particular the organization of meetings between both projects for results presentation and analysis of present and future collaboration. Both projects have established an interaction plan which includes…
Consortium meeting in Bologna
All UNTWIST partners met in Bologna for the technical follow-up meeting and the field visit last May. During the first-day consortium meeting, the activities carried out by each of the partners were presented and the incipient results of the work carried out in each work package were shared. The action plan for the coming…
Technical Event Transfer in Aragón, Spain
The second edition of the Cultiva conference last month in Sádaba brought together more than a thousand people linked to the agricultural sector, including producers, organizations, and companies. The event, organized this year by Cooperativa San José de Sádaba, Red ARAX, Cooperativas Agroalimentarias de Aragón, and the Centro de Transferencia Agroalimentaria del Gobierno de…
JOINT MODELLING WORKSHOP
On the 1st of March 2023, a modelling workshop was held, jointly organised by the UNTWIST and the ADAPT projects and was a great opportunity to discuss the modelling approaches of the two projects that are funded under the topic “Looking behind plant adaptation (SFS-30-2019)”. Ideas and approaches were exchanged promoting knowledge and experience sharing…
Testing camelina focus line response to drought stress in the lysimeter station
In spring 2022, UNIBO set up a semi-controlled environment trial to test the response to the drought of the four Focus Lines selected from the UNTWIST core collection. UNT4, UNT18, UNT21, and UNT46 were sown in lysimeters located at the experimental farm of the University of Bologna, Italy. Each lysimeter contained 1 m3 of soil…
FIELD TESTING OF FOCUS LINES IN SPAIN
The four camelina focus lines selected from the UNTWIST core collection are now being analysed in open field conditions in France, Italy, Spain and the UK. In Spain, the focus lines are planted between November and December at the experimental farm Entresierras, in Ciudad Real. Various physiological parameters including SPAD, gas exchange and chlorophyll a…
Spotlight on the UNTWIST focus lines
The drought stress experiment with the four UNTWIST focus lines at the flowering stage, carried out by AIT at the novel high-throughput phenotyping platform PHENOPlant in Vienna. Based on a combined evaluation of the genetic diversity and field and glasshouse trials of the 54 UNTWIST core collection lines, four camelina focus lines were selected…
MODELLING WORK ON CAMELINA
For more than 20 years, JOBIM has been the annual event that federates French bioinformatics. The 2022 edition was held on the Beaulieu Campus of the University of Rennes 1, from 5 to 8th July. Around 500 participants attended this edition. The organization of JOBIM was led by the Société Française de BioInformatique (SFBI), in…