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The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems.

Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, via Brecce Bianche, Ancona, 60131, Italy. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular, UNLP-CONICET, CCT La Plata, La Plata, Argentina. Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Müe, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany. Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Plovdiv, 4000, Bulgaria. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A8, Canada. Staţiunea de Cercetare Dezvoltare Pentru Legumicultură, Bacău, 600388, Romania. Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616-8680, USA. Spanish Plant Genetic Resources National Center (INIA, CRF), National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 28800, Spain. Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, Verona, 37134, Italy. National Centre for Plant Genetic Resources, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute-NRI, Radzików, Błonie, 05-870, Poland. Regional Service for Agrofood Research and Development (SERIDA), Ctra AS-267, PK 19, Villaviciosa, Asturias, 33300, Spain. CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91405, France. CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris Saclay (IPS2), Université de Paris, Orsay, 91405, France. ISEA Srl, Via dell'Industria n.303, Corridonia, MC, 62014, Italy. Legume Genomics Team, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Strzeszynska 34, Poznan, 60-479, Poland. Genetic Resources Section, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, ICARDA, Agdal Rabat, Morocco. School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza, 85100, Italy. International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 00153, Italy. INRAE, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Génétique Quantitative et Evolution - Le Moulon, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Department of Plant Sciences, Genomics and Bioinformatics Program, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, 58108, USA. Crop Science Department, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Hacquetova ulica 17, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia. EURICE - European Research and Project Office GmbH, Heinrich-Hertz-Allee 1, St. Ingbert, 66386, Germany. Terres Inovia, Institut Technique des oléagineux, des protéagineux eu du chanvren, 1 Av L. Brétignières, Thiverval-Grignon, 78850, France. Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Seeland, 06466, Germany. Comunità del Mais Spinato di Gandino (MASP), Via XX Settembre, 5, Gandino, Bergamo, 24024, Italy. Suceava Genebank (BRGV), Bdul 1 Mai, nr. 17, Suceava, 720224, Romania. Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology (CEGSB), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India. State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Centre for Crop and Food Innovation, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia. CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina - Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rua Diogo Botelho 1327, Porto, 4169-005, Portugal. Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Via Cavalleggeri 25, Pontecagnano-Faiano, SA, 84098, Italy. Federal Research Center, The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, St. Petersburg, 190031, Russia. Department of Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, via Brecce Bianche, Ancona, 60131, Italy.

The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology. 2021;(3):646-660
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Abstract

Food legumes are crucial for all agriculture-related societal challenges, including climate change mitigation, agrobiodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, food security and human health. The transition to plant-based diets, largely based on food legumes, could present major opportunities for adaptation and mitigation, generating significant co-benefits for human health. The characterization, maintenance and exploitation of food-legume genetic resources, to date largely unexploited, form the core development of both sustainable agriculture and a healthy food system. INCREASE will implement, on chickpea (Cicer arietinum), common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), lentil (Lens culinaris) and lupin (Lupinus albus and L. mutabilis), a new approach to conserve, manage and characterize genetic resources. Intelligent Collections, consisting of nested core collections composed of single-seed descent-purified accessions (i.e., inbred lines), will be developed, exploiting germplasm available both from genebanks and on-farm and subjected to different levels of genotypic and phenotypic characterization. Phenotyping and gene discovery activities will meet, via a participatory approach, the needs of various actors, including breeders, scientists, farmers and agri-food and non-food industries, exploiting also the power of massive metabolomics and transcriptomics and of artificial intelligence and smart tools. Moreover, INCREASE will test, with a citizen science experiment, an innovative system of conservation and use of genetic resources based on a decentralized approach for data management and dynamic conservation. By promoting the use of food legumes, improving their quality, adaptation and yield and boosting the competitiveness of the agriculture and food sector, the INCREASE strategy will have a major impact on economy and society and represents a case study of integrative and participatory approaches towards conservation and exploitation of crop genetic resources.

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MeSH terms : Crops, Agricultural ; Fabaceae