The DARkWIN project
Pollinator-assisted plant natural selection and breeding under climate change pressure
Funded by the Horizon Europe - EIC PathFinder European Innovation Council Work Programme
(HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01-01)
Grant agreement N. 101098680.
The concept
DARkWIN's concept integrates both the classical human eye selecting the healthiest genotypes under stressful environments (where darkener/greener plants are usually selected: DARk-plants win), and the darWINian pollinator bee vision where the most rewarding flowers from the healthiest plants will be naturally selected.
Interdisciplinarity
With the aim of finding a radically new path in high-throughput plant phenotyping, selection, and breeding, DARkWIN integrates transversal disciplines of electronics and robotics, greenhouse technology, crop physiology, agro-ecology, entomology, flower metabolomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, and genetics, to develop a unique platform for pollinator assisted plant phenotyping and natural selection under environmental pressure for breeding decisions.
DARkWIN Workshop registration (7 Junio 2024). You can download the workshop flyer in PDF format here.