FITONET Operational Group: Development of a digital environment and living laboratories to enhance plant genetic resources of agricultural interest
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2022 -2024
- Assigned Budget 594.138,18 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Castilla - La Mancha; Comunitat Valenciana; Galicia; Madrid, Comunidad de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://gofitonet.es
Description
Establish a dynamic network composed of a PPP and 3 Living Labs (pilot projects) that facilitates and promotes the use of plant genetic resources for the entire agri-food sector, so that knowledge and needs are exchanged through collaboration in obtaining quality, sustainable and profitable products,
Objectives
- Facilitate access to plant genetic resources and improved varieties for farmers, associations, and businesses.
- Promote the exchange of knowledge and needs between companies, fostering collaboration to create quality, sustainable, and profitable products.
- Increase the genetic diversity of crops to obtain better adapted and differentiated products that contribute to more sustainable, resilient, and profitable agricultural systems.
- Development of a professional social network that connects farmers, associations, and entrepreneurs with researchers (breeders, conservationists, biotechnologists, etc.)
- Development of four living labs/pilot projects that demonstrate the importance of utilizing biodiversity to obtain quality, sustainable, and profitable crops and products.
Results
- Incorporation of useful information for farmers' use of materials through an information system that captures their characteristics, farmers' knowledge, evaluation results, crop performance, and data collected in the Collections Network Inventory.
- Development and distribution of a user-friendly and dynamic app that connects farmers, associations, and businesses with researchers and that provides feedback on all the information generated by users.
- Selection of the most suitable varieties of corn, rye, and spelt for cultivation and study of hypoallergenic wheat varieties with a very low capacity to induce allergies and intolerances. Agronomic and immunogenetic characteristics will be analyzed, and crop problems will be incorporated into FitoNet by farmers using the app.
- Farmers and agri-food processors who are not part of the operational group will be incorporated into the dynamic and open network thanks to the dissemination of the app and pilot experiences.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: AGROINTEC
- Coordinator/entity email: gestion@agrointec.com
Beneficiaries
- Fundación CELLBITEC
- AGROFOR - CSIC
- Asociación para el fomento de la I+D en genómica vegetal (INVEGEN)
- Bullsfot Solutions SL
- Unión de pequeños agricultores y ganaderos (UPA)
- Grupo da Cunha
- Panadería palmeña S.L
- (COPALPAN)
Outsourced
- Fundación Cajamar de la Comunitat Valenciana (CAJAMAR)
- Agrosa semillas selectas SA
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