Institut für Rebenzüchtung
Climate change has also arrived at the Upper Rhine Region. Even if political change succeeds to drastically reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, the omissions of the past will cause hotter and drier summers at least over the next decades. If agriculture in the region is to survive, it will need crop plants with elevated drought and heat resilience. We want to use scientific knowledge on the molecular and physiological base of stress resilience to develop novel strategies to improve resilience of grapevine. Our vision is to enable the breeding of a new generation of Climate Resilient Grapevines (KliWi Reben, from “Klima-Widerstandsfähig”). This will help viticulture, which is relevant for both the economy and the cultural identity of the Upper Rhine Region, to cope with the consequences of climate change. A consortium with partners from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University Freiburg, the CNRS in Strasbourg (France), the Julius Kühn-Institute and the biotechnology company ScreenSYS comes together in order to find solutions for the problems at hand.
Europäische Union
