The quest for tolerant varieties: phenotyping at plant and cellular level.

• Chair: Sebastien Carpentier

• Vice chair: Uli Schurr

• FA1306

• contact: sebastien.carpentier@kuleuven.be

Added value and impact• General

o Adding value to existing funded projects by creating a network

o Support young promising researchers (m/f)

o Support inclusiveness countries

Challenges

• Europe has some world-leading groups in plant phenotyping but there is still a long way to go until it finds its way to the general plant community and educational programmes.

• The complexity (GxExM), extrapolation from the lab to the field

• An essential next step to implement phenotyping in the European Research Area is the establishment of a network of researchers of different disciplines

Objectives

1. Disseminate the results of high throughput phenotyping (plant & cell) and novel techniques

2. Integrate results from different omics levels (phenomics, metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, genomics)

3. Link between academia and industry/practice

4. Train young scientists in a multidisciplinary attitude (complexity of genotype x environment x management)

metabolomics

Plant phenotyping

proteomics

genomics

transcriptomics

Cell phenotyping

First year of the Action

Meeting in CY and PT

• COST is an incentive and will not necessarily cover all the costs.

• Cyprus: 27 reimbursed/40 participants

• Portugal 25 reimbursed/ 54 participants (PhD corner)

• Germany 57 reimbursed/ 110 participants