COUSIN: Crop Wild Relatives utilisation and conservation for sustainable agriculture

表弟：作物野生近缘种的利用和保护以实现可持续农业

• 批准号: 10090949
• 金额: $ 34.3万
• 依托单位: THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10090949
• 关键词: COUSIN; Crop; Wild; Relatives; utilisation

Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs), i.e. the COUSINs of domesticated crops, represent a natural source of genetic variation. The COUSIN consortium recognizes the value of CWRs for agriculture, but also the challenges of their utilisation. Through the COUSIN Readiness Levels (CRLs) we will demonstrate a roadmap for the use of CWRs in breeding and farming. We will work with five flagship crops: wheat, barley, pea, lettuce and brassicas. With these exemplary crops, we demonstrate how current challenges of stakeholders from farm to fork can be overcome using CWRs in formalised and participatory breeding. The COUSIN consortium has unique CWR-related expertise, data and breeding material that allows us to cover the translational pathway from the identification of wild plants to a market ready crop in a five-year project. For each flagship crop, we identify priority traits of CWRs, design selection toolboxes and apply them in current breeding programmes in order to fulfil current and emerging stakeholders demands. Effective characterisation protocols are designed and will guide conservation of the naturally occurring functional and genetic trait diversity across Europe. Characterisation will occur in- and ex-situ through high-throughput phenotyping, chemotyping and genotyping of priority traits incl. plant-associated microbiomes. Conservation measures cover in-situ reserves and ex-situ collections with the widest possible trait diversity. For easy access of priority trait information and corresponding CWR accessions, a user-friendly data portal will be developed. All collected data will be offered for integration into national and international repositories. Through on-farm pilots and actual breeding sites realised across the European pedoclimatic regions, the value of CWRs will be demonstrated to stakeholders with direct applications for breeders and farmers to provide climate change-resilient crops as a vital means towards sustainable production systems.

作物野生亲戚（CWRS），即驯化作物的堂兄，代表了遗传变异的自然来源。堂兄联盟认识到CWRS对农业的价值，也认识到其利用的挑战。通过堂兄准备水平（CRL），我们将展示用于在繁殖和农业中使用CWR的路线图。我们将与五种旗舰作物合作：小麦，大麦，豌豆，生菜和甘蓝植物。有了这些模范作物，我们证明了利益相关者目前从农场到叉子的挑战如何使用正式和参与性育种中的CWR克服。堂兄联盟具有独特的与CWR相关的专业知识，数据和育种材料，使我们能够在五年项目中涵盖从野生植物到市场现成农作物的转化途径。对于每种旗舰作物，我们都会确定CWRS，设计选择工具箱的优先特征，并将其应用于当前的育种计划中，以满足当前和新兴的利益相关者的要求。设计有效的表征方案，并将指导整个欧洲自然发生的功能和遗传性状多样性的保护。通过高通量表型，化学分型和优先特征的基因分型，将发生表征。植物相关的微生物组。保护措施涵盖了原位储量和最广泛特征多样性的原位收集。为了轻松访问优先特征信息和相应的CWR配件，将开发一个用户友好的数据门户。所有收集的数据将提供与国内和国际存储库集成。通过农场飞行员和在欧洲pedoclimatic地区实现的实际育种地点，将向利益相关者提供直接应用的利益相关者的价值，以供育种者和农民提供气候变化的作物，作为对可持续生产系统的重要手段。