The aim of the project is to increase the availability and quality of local varieties of Vernini cereals suitable for different environments and for different purposes, identifying the specific characteristics of adaptation to different and changed pedoclimatic conditions.

Preliminary information

SCIENTIFIC MANAGER: Paola Migliorini

OTHER UNISG RESEARCHERS INVOLVED: Sandra Spagnolo

PARTNERSHIP: CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (Italy)

DURATION OF THE PROJECT: 36 months (January 2025 – December 2027)

FUNDING INSTRUMENT: Sviluppo Rurale Piemonte 2023-2027. SRA 16/1/2024 Conservazione agrobiodiversità - Banche del germoplasma vegetale.

MAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREA IN UNISG: Ecology and Sustainability

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Description

The activities of the project Vernini aim to characterize and define the characteristics and adaptability to climate change and to the different environments of common wheat and heterogeneous material (mixtures) of local varieties of common wheat and rye, in order to increase the availability of suitable material and expand the possibility of use.

The activities will be partly consequential to those carried out in 2023 as part of the project called GERMOSE and will allow to confirm and/or expand the information collected for the phenotypic description of rye ecotypes. Specifically, the partnership has the following objectives:

  • characterization, evaluation and selection of the seed core to be placed in conservation in the UNISG collection of the three rye ecotypes;
  • characterization, evaluation and selection of the seed core to be placed in conservation of approximately 20 accessions of autumn vernini cereals present in the UNISG collection;
  • in situ conservation of genetic resources and heterogeneous material with a high degree of genetic diversity, evaluation of the different response to different cultivation environments and participatory and evolutionary selection;
  • qualitative and genetic characterization of materials;
  • information sharing on cultivated biodiversity, participatory selection, capacity for resilience and adaptation to climate change, selection and management of local genetic resources.

The results obtained will be presented through the organization of dissemination meetings.

 

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