Capacity building in Plantomics
In a context of increasing climate change, global agriculture must find alternatives to chemical fertilisers and pesticides ecologically unsustainable, in order to meet the increasing demand for food. In the face of this challenge, advanced tools for plant biotechnology and especially omics technologies offer great potential for devising sustainable solutions for the agriculture of the future.
The emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has generated large amounts of data in areas such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and phenomics.
These omics tools serve to:
- Develop systems biology approaches toward linking genes/proteins/metabolites to specific function(s)
- Accelerate plant breeding programs for improving crop traits (i.e. stress tolerance, high nutritional value)
- Assess to quality, and nutritional composition of food crops.
INPlantomics Solutions
Up-skilling programs
Conferences and workshops on:
- plant omics data generation, processing and interpretation
- best practices for crop breeding and sanitation, micropropagation, seed quality, growth promotion, and plant phenotyping
Research
Research will try to answer critical crop tolerance to environmental stresses issues for NA countries. Crops of choice are local wheat varieties, severely threatened by drought and salinity to develop resilient crop varieties.
Education
Generate educational material on latest plant omics technologies targeting Master and PhD students. New modules will be integrated in Master and PhD curricula and online courses will be made available
National Network for Agri-food sector
Create a national network gathering scientists, professionals, breeders, NGOs, farmers and policy makers with the goal to ensure sustainability of agri-food sector, food security and quality, and promotion of healthy nutrition.
What are plantomics ?
Omics group different innovative technologies that deal with large amount of datasets resulting from high throughput sequencing or phenoytping approaches. Plantomics provide innovative solutions to the meet the increasing demand for food.
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