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Environmental stress can trigger changes in plant metabolism, altering the carbon/nitrogen balance to enhance tolerance and inhibit excessive growth. However, our understanding of the specific metabolic and genetic components that regulate nutrient status …

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An innovation project led by ASOCHAMP, which also includes AIMPLAS, INGELIA, and SAV. The main objective is to reduce the waste generated by the mushroom industry (spent substrate and agricultural film) and its subsequent recovery. … CHAMPLAST Operational …

A sustainable and ecological approach to agriculture is today a solution to the growing challenges of climate change, natural resource depletion, declining biodiversity, and diminishing soil quality. Agroecology can address these challenges by …

H2020 NUTRIMAN Project: Nutrient Management and Recovery Thematic Network …

To remain competitive, European agricultural production must reduce its environmental impact and use soil-enhancing farming systems. The EU-funded SOILCARE project aims to identify and evaluate effective soil-enhancing farming systems and agronomic …

Healthy soils are essential for the future of European agricultural and horticultural production. Especially in intensive production systems, soil-borne diseases are a major factor with a negative impact on soil health. Recently developed best practices …

Although microorganisms dominate nearly every ecological niche on our planet, it is only in the last 10 to 15 years that we have begun to better understand the composition and function of microbial communities (microbiomes) thanks to significant advances …

H2020 iSQAPER Project: Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience …

LANDMARK is a pan-European multi-stakeholder consortium composed of leading academic and applied research institutes, chambers of agriculture, and policymakers that will develop a coherent framework for soil management with the aim of achieving …

Societies depend on soil. Fertile and productive soil is the foundation of our existence and a prerequisite for a stable supply of food, fiber, animal feed, wood, and other biomass. Soil supports biodiversity and contributes to the provision of a wide …

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The Sunflower Task Force seeks to make a crop of productive interest profitable, and to move it from being residual and directed solely at marginal areas. It will seek profitability, along with sustainability and ecosystem benefits. The Group will provide …

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The objective is to develop a business intelligence tool for monitoring, managing, and supporting decision-making in extensive cattle farms to improve profitability and the production environment. … BOVIEX 4.0 Operational Group: Technological improvement …

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A protocol has been developed for the implementation and monitoring of microalgae cultivation, thus ensuring their autonomous growth and reproduction using photobioreactors installed on various farms. This system enables efficient and sustainable …

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The opportunity generated by the SUPERFOOD TECH project is applicable to the hundreds of thousands of hectares affected by mineral and nutritional degradation, and the proposed solution is equally valid regardless of the affected regions, crops, soil …

Currently, an estimated 60% of EU soils are severely degraded due to unsustainable land-use practices and pollution. The EU-funded SOILCRATES project will establish four living laboratories in France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain to monitor soil …