BreedFlexStraw: Innovative methods for breeding cereals with increased straw yield and improved stability
Funding | Ministerium für ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz Baden-Württemberg (MLR) |
Duration | 2021 - 2022 |
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The project will support experimental work in plant breeding. The project will develop a sensor to measure the stability of cereal stalks in order to derive recommendations for further breeding of this trait. This trait plays an important role in relation to climate change and humus formation (keyword C02 storage in the soil). The project consists of the following components (1) development of a first prototype sensor for the trait semi-elasticity, (2) testing of the sensor on the test bench in the laboratory and improvement of the sensor until it is suitable for the field, (3) installation of the sensor in the BreedVision platform, (4) collection of measurement data in multi-site field trials with 200 triticale varieties, (5) evaluation of the measurement data and phenotypic characterisation of the 200 triticale varieties, (6) investigation of the genetic basis of the trait semi-elasticity and derivation of recommendations for further breeding for this trait. | |