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Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production The BRESOV project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 774244.
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Location
Winter School Sicily 2022
Exploiting the diversity of broccoli, snap bean and
tomato: the case of study of the H2020 BRESOV project
13 – 15 December 2022
Organised by Di3A of the University of Catania in collaboration with the ECO-PB – European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding, Rete Semi Rurali and Engagement.Biobreeding.
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The training course aims to provide to students, technicians, growers and researchers, the recent projects
outcomes related to the organic breeding for the broccoli, snap bean and tomato crops. The BRESOV
consortium’s overall aim is to increase the plants’ tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses and to adapt the
varieties to the specific requirements of organic and low-input farming. While existing breeding material is
predominantly optimised for conventional agriculture, the BRESOV project aims to adapt and enhance genetic
resources specifically for organic production to make it more competitive and attractive for farmers throughout
and beyond the European Union.Within the project, partners applied modern techniques to explore the natural
diversity within each crop and then exploited them to expand the breeding base to select and to improve
resilience traits for organic farming systems using annual crop rotation schemes. We hope our BRESOV
project outputs will contribute significantly towards developing context-specific climate-resilient organic farming
systems in the face of the imminent climate change scenarios and will serve as a model for the enhancement
of other crops grown using innovative organic vegetable growing methods and technique for more resilient and
sustainable agrosystems.
