Crop4Clima
Financiado
Resilient and environmentally sustainable engineered crops to address climate ch...
Current global warming, caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (in particular CO2), is expected to rise from 2.5°C to 4°C by the end of the century. Consequently, agriculture is faced with the urging needs of increa...
Current global warming, caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (in particular CO2), is expected to rise from 2.5°C to 4°C by the end of the century. Consequently, agriculture is faced with the urging needs of increasing CO2 sequestration, coping with adverse weather and disastrous events, (ie droughts, heat waves, fire and flooding) and feeding an ever-growing world population projected at 9.7 billion in 2050. Future crops must serve as more efficient carbon sinks to mitigate climate change, plus have higher resilience and productivity to feed the global population. Crop4Clima will develop first-of-a-kind canola and rapeseed lines able to assimilate 60% more CO2 through photorespiration, requiring 20% less amount of water, improving biomass/Ha and still maintaining high oil content values as required for canola derived products. No commercial crops of that kind exist. To reach such product, we will improve and bring to commercial use, a disruptive synthetic metabolic pathway, the TaCo pathway, which turns photorespiration into a CO2-fixing instead of a CO2-releasing process, leading to increased net carbon-uptake under agronomical standard and drought field conditions. Canola and rapeseed are major crops in EU and worldwide. Notably, our technology has commercial prospects to be introduced in other C3 crops such as soybean, cotton, rice and more, based on photosynthetic and genomic similarity. The success of the technology implementation in rapeseed will allow us to establish a start-up seed company aiming to produce and sell high oil seeds with low carbon footprint. In addition and in frame of the program we will develop an innovative business plan taking into considerations how the food value chain is evolving to cope with food supply and climate change signing a precommercial agreement with our industrial partners for the development of our engineered crops up to TRL9 and build trust on the solution proposed.
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Duración del proyecto: 31 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2023-05-01
Fecha Fin: 2025-12-31
Fecha Fin: 2025-12-31
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2023-05-01
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITIONOPEN-01:
EIC Transition Open 2022
Cerrada
hace 2 años
Presupuesto
El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
2M€
Líder del proyecto
EVOGENE LTD
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Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5
Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5