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Innovative biofertilizers boosting yield of cereals and horticultural crops under global climate change: Toward Sustainability of Agricultural systems against the Climate Change in arid zones (Sus-Agri-CC)
Project
Project code: 2821ERA18C
Contract period: 01.06.2021
- 31.05.2024
Budget: 51,702 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: crop production, fertilization, food security, vegetable production, climate (climate relevance, climate protection, climate change), maize, resource protection, resource efficiency, wheat
The FAO estimates that the world population will increase by 34% by 2050. As a result, the productivity of key staple crops such as cereals and horticultural crops will need to increase by an estimated 43%. To ensure sustainable agricultural and biomass production due to global climate change and shifting arable land, sustainable biological practices such as biofertilizers that increase crop yield, quality or novel functions, and tolerance to abiotic stressors should be used to improve agricultural production. The overall goals of this project are to (i) develop cultivation technologies that will be field verified, (ii) use beneficial indigenous microorganisms as biofertilizers and active ingredients, (iii) recycle green and agro-industrial wastes into compost and agricultural biostimulants to improve soil fertility and crop yield, and (iv) understand the phenotypes and molecular properties of leading staple crops under different environmental conditions. At IPK, studies on agro-physiological and biochemical events of plants after treatment with biofertilizers and under different stress conditions, drought and salt, will be conducted to elucidate the molecular and biochemical events on plant growth in greenhouse and field conditions. For this purpose, all planned plants will be grown under greenhouse conditions or supplied plant materials from field trials will be analyzed for the changes in metabolism and constituents after treatment with biofertilizers using biochemical methods. This will allow us to make specific predictions about how the plants will react to the different biofertilizers and which of them will be suitable in climatically changed environmental conditions to be used for sustainable highly productive agriculture.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
