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BayKlimaFit – Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change
Collaborative Project
Contract period:
01.02.2016
- 31.01.2019
Budget:
2404513 Euro
Coordinating institution:
Department of Plant Breeding
The consequences of the climate change are already omnipresent reality in Bavaria. The past years have shown that crop plants are exposed to partially extreme stress caused by strongly changing environmental conditions. Once we understand the molecular mechanisms which plants using to adapt to abiotic stress such as flooding, cold, drought or heat, efficient strategies can be developed to improve their capacity for resistance. Any emerging measures will be in direct line with the actions proposed by the Bavarian climate adaption strategy (BayKLAS). The results of the research studies will help making regional crop plants more robust to extreme weather events and therefore will contribute to ensure a sustainable and environmentally friendly production.
Objective of the project network is work rather efficient using synergies between the different projects. Hence project cooperation is based on content and methodology approaches will be established. This will provide essential impulses for potential breeding adaptations for crop plants to the climate change under protection of scarce resources (e.g. water, nutrient, soil).
Collaborative Projects
Coordination
Research projects
Flooding and cold – Adaptation strategies for young plants to the consequences of climate change
Research projects
Climate induced heat and drought – coping with stress through metabolic adaptation
Research projects
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 4: Heat tolerance during pollen development of maize and wheat
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 5: Heat and drought tolerance of barley
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 6: Validation of practice-relevant markers for breeding of climate-adapted and healthy barley plants
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 7: Climate dependent control of water loss in leaves
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 8: Drought-resistant plants
Symbionts and pathogens – Tolerance to environmental stress during times of climate change
Research projects
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 9: Improved resistance for stress and absorption of phosphate through symbiosis
- BayKlimaFit: Strategies for the adaptation of crop plants to the climate change. Subproject 10: Disease-resistance of climate-adapted barley plants