Accelerating the development of breeding tools for perennial crops, specifically fruits and nuts
Funds research building faster, more accessible breeding tools that shorten the long generation cycles of fruit and nut crops.
This is a single-stage Research and Innovation Action, funded from an indicative topic budget of EUR 12,000,000 that the Commission expects to split into two grants of EUR 6,000,000 each, paid as a fixed lump sum rather than reimbursed actual costs. Award criteria, scoring, thresholds and the post-evaluation timeline are set out in the Work Programme's General Annexes rather than restated on the t…
This call wants new or improved tools and methods that shorten the breeding cycle for fruit and nut crops while improving pest and disease resistance, yield stability and climate adaptation. It wants genomic selection tools tested in real breeding schemes and validated across different species, with standardised protocols developed together with breeders.
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