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European project GrassLandScape results

Genetic diversity in grasslands: an ally for adaptation to climate change

Is it possible to adapt our plants confronted with climate change? INRAE researchers as coordinators of the European GrassLandscape project believe that grasslands, which are widespread ecosystems in Europe, hold the answer to that question in their plant genes. These plants have been sampled and kept in collections for over 40 years by our researchers, who worked with researchers from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), and used these collections to identify genes that could support adaptation to future climate change. Their results were published on 11th March in Molecular Ecology Resources, and highlighted 374 genes potentially involved in this adaptation.

 

The GrassLandscape project was selected as part of the FACCE-JPI ERA-NET+ 2014 Climate Smart Agriculture call for proposals. This project was supported at INRAE by ACCAF (Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture and Forestry) metaprogramme and BAP (Biology and Plant Improvement) division. The partners of the GrassLandscape project were INRAE (UR P3F Lusignan, project coordinator) and EPHE in France, IBERS in the UK, IPK in Germany, as well as ILVO and Ghent University in Belgium.

Reference

Blanco-Pastor, J. L., Barre, P., Keep, T, Ledauphin, T., Escobar-Gutiérrez, A., Roschanski, A.M., Willner, E, Dehmer, K. J., Hegarty, M., Muylle, H., Veeckman, E., Vandepoele, K., Ruttink, T., Roldán-Ruiz, I. Manel, S., Sampoux, J. P. (2021) Canonical correlations reveal adaptive loci and phenotypic responses to climate in perennial ryegrass. Molecular Ecology Resources.<p>

DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13289

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Modification date : 10 August 2023 | Publication date : 10 December 2021 | Redactor : CLIMAE