PROPOSAL:
ICA4-2000-30014
ACRONYM
MYCHINTEC
AREA:
FP5 - INCO2, 5/ unknown KeyAction
Call number / date:
-
PROJECT TYPE:
Shared Cost
EU CONTRIBUTION:
950,000
STARTING DATE:
2000-10-01
DURATION:
36 months
Coordinator: Dr. V. Gianinazzi-Pearson, INRA, Dijon, Laboratoire De Phytoparasitologie, Rue de Sully 17, FR -21034, Dijon, France, Email: gianina@epoisses.inra.fr
Project Description:
Arbuscular mycorrhiza technology will be applied as an innovative tool to enhance staple food crop productivity in small-scale Chinese farming systems, by improving soil fertility and particularly phosphate availability which is low in most agricultural soils in China. A Chinese stock centre of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from north, central and south China will be established and germless registered in an on-line database. Isolates with high symbiotic efficiency will be propagated on a large scale as quality-controlled inoculums and directly introduced into production systems of sweet potato, maize and cassava traditionally used in small farms. Improved crop yields and persistence of introduced inoculums by molecular monitoring will be criteria of inoculation efficiency. Success of the project relies on close cooperation between European and Chinese research institutes, SMEs and end-users (farmers)
Project URL: http://www.inra.fr/Internet/Centres/Dijon/bbceipm/Mychintec/
Consortium:
Co-ordinator:
Contact Person: Roineau, Lionel (Mr)
Department: Centre De Recherche De Dijon Laboratoire De Phytoparasitologie
Organisation: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
17 Rue de Sully 17
BP 1540
21034 DIJON
FRANCE
Tel: +33-3-80693011
Fax: +33-3-80693200
Participants
Contact Person: ROEDLER, Elgar (Mr)
Department: Institut für Pflanzenernährung
INSTITUT FUR PFLANZENERNAHRUNG
Organisation: Universitat Hohenheim
Fruwirthstr.20
70593 STUTTGART
GERMANY
Contact Person: DODD, John (Dr)
Department: BIOTECHNOLOGY MIRCEN
Organisation: The International Institute of Biotechnology
CT2 7VW CANTERBURY
UNITED KINGDOM
Contact Person: ZHU, Huotang (Professor)
Department: KEY LABORATORY OF AGRO-MICROBIOLOGY, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE OF CHINE - COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Organisation: Huazhong Agricultural University
Number 1, Shizishan Street
430070 WUCHANGGHEZAN
CHINA
Contact Person: ZHENG, Dawei (Professor)
Department: DEPARTMENT OF PLANT NUTRITION - COLLEGE OF RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Organisation: China Agricultural University
Yuanmingyuan Xilu 2, Haidian District
100094 BEIJING
CHINA
Contact Person: CHAN, Sun-chi, Albert (Professor)
Department: DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED BIOLOGY & CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
Organisation: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hunghom, Kowloon
CHINA
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