Model-assisted crop improvement as one of CAPITALISE’s drivers
Professor Zoran Nikoloski from University of Potsdam is leading the CAPITALISE modelling work. He explains how the Bioinformatics work and modelling can help to extract value from the large heterogeneous datasets to aid understanding of the science and guide...
Evaluating environmental and socio-economic costs and benefits of crops with increased photosynthetic capacity in Europe
To ensure future food security in Europe, crops need to be adapted to changing societal and environmental challenges. The cultivation of these optimized crops can have both positive and negative consequences and it is therefore necessary to identify and assess...
Too much of a good thing: photosynthesis under high light stress
Johannes Kromdijk gave an open seminar during a CAPITALISE visit to Matteo Dell’Acqua’s Crop Genetics Group. His presentation described how important C4 crops such as maize and sorghum cope with light as both a resource and a stress factor. Light is important to...
CAPITALISE consortium meeting success
Twenty six months from project launch, the CAPITIALISE consortium were finally successul in holding an in person meeting at La Ciotat in France. Presentations were made by experienced research leaders, post-docs and PhD students. There was lively discussion on our...
SSSA news on mapping QTL of traits related to photosynthesis efficiency
The team of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna is finalizing and testing the analytics pipeline for mapping QTL. The idea behind this pipeline is to streamline and standardize QTL mapping within CAPITALISE. The overall performance of the procedure was recently assessed by...
Training workshop 2 recording available
We are proud to announce our next online training workshop on 'Forward genetics approaches' will be held on Wednesday 27th April, starting at 10am CEST, and is now available to view. For the full program and recording click...
Investigating social acceptance of modern breeding techniques
Researchers Paul Nales and Arnout Fischer at Wageningen University have conducted 6 focus groups to identify consumer perceptions towards multiple breeding techniques ranging from natural breeding towards advanced techniques such as CRISPR-CAS. The focus groups...
How does CAPITALISE deal with BIG DATA?
CAPITALISE are adopting open data approachesDuring the first reporting period, IPK, SSSA, and UP, in collaborations with the rest of the consortium, contributed to developing a research data management plan (RDMP) that provides a common framework for storing,...
Phenotyping update
To identify the natural variation of the Most Valuable Players (MoVaPs) for photosynthetic improvement, partners have been carrying out high throughput phenotyping for a range of MOVAP traits whilst developing new equipment to do this. New devices for Chlorophyll...
CAPITALISE partners establish diverse Germplasm collections
Diverse innovative germplasm collections for maize, tomato and barley have been carefully selected by CAPITALISE partners. These include crop varieties, landraces, and crop wild relatives, and are derived from materials already available to CAPITALISE partners as...