ADYSARC

This industry-driven project aims to improve yield stability of crop plants under limiting environmental conditions that are of agronomic, ecologic and economic relevance in modern agriculture. Agricultural productivity will become limiting over the next 20 years due to the growing world population and increased meat consumption. At the same time continuous global warming will amplify existing abiotic stress conditions and create new, combined abiotic stresses which will lead to siginificant crop losses. Of major and increasing agronomic importance is the development of crops with improved tolerance to heat stress and combined heat and drought stress. This project will use Arabidopsis for gene identification and as test model system for transferring results to the crops rice and tomato (using transgenic and non-GM approaches).