AGROALNEXT Project: Optimization of horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of climate change: environmental control and efficient use of water and nutrients
- Type Project
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Murcia, Región de
- Main source of financing NextGenerationEU
- Project website Web del Proyecto
Description
The project addresses the adaptation of tomatoes to combined stresses such as salinity and high temperature, optimizing management in soilless cultivation and studying key physiological and molecular mechanisms to maintain nutritional balance with less use of water and fertilizers.
Results
The commercial yield obtained during the tomato cycle was quite high, reaching values of up to 14.5 kg/m² in the control treatment. Although yield decreased under saline conditions, tomato production in the closed cultivation system has been successful (good yield and fruit quality, and significant savings in inputs). Under conditions of combined salinity and high temperatures, melatonin can have a positive or negative effect on the expression of genes that control CO₂ assimilation, depending on endogenous NO levels. The lack of K⁺ absorption by the roots in some mutants has been compensated for in other tissues so that the K⁺ supply to the fruit is not reduced.
Contact information
- Coordinator/Entity Name: Manuel Nieves Cordones|Francisco Rubio Muñoz
- Mailing address: Not available
- Email coordinator/entity: mncordones@cebas.csic.es|frubio@cebas.csic.es
- Phone: Not available
Coordinators
- CEBAS-CSIC
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