{"id":193,"date":"2017-04-23T19:57:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T19:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:28:32","slug":"final-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/final-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Participatory evaluation of EPs \u2013 Credit: S. Ceccarelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the next thee months I will join Florence-based NGO Rete Semi Rurali<\/a>\u00a0with their current work on\u00a0participatory evolutionary breeding for low-input and organic cereal farmers.<\/p>\n

The research run by Rete Semi Rurali in the DIVERSIFOOD<\/a> project (Horizon 2020) is now in its 3rd year, however the SOLIBAM<\/a>\u00a0evolutionary wheat populations, which are being studied, have entered Italy in 2010 and are now in their 7th year of adaption in\u00a0some of the participating farms. Trials are distributed over 19 farms in different locations covering a wide range of pedo-climatic and agro-ecological environments.<\/p>\n

There are 4 main farms, sited in 4 different regions (Piemonte, Toscana, Molise and Sicilia) each hosting the complete\u00a0experiment in complete random block design; the\u00a0same experiment is repeated under incomplete random block design, spread across the remaining 15 farms.<\/p>\n

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Wheat evolutionary populations and cultivars currently being trialled – Credit RSR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Complete and incomplete random block design – Credit RSR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Research Goal<\/h2>\n

To evaluate the effectiveness of evolutionary wheat breeding as a climate change adaptation strategy for low-input and organic farmers in Italy.<\/p>\n

Research Objectives<\/h2>\n