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ADAPT project on CORDIS website
The Results in Brief article ‘Protecting potato yields from extreme heat- and drought stress’ was published on the CORDIS - EU research results website. To get access please follow the link: Protecting potato yields from extreme heat- and drought stress
The full Results Pack on "Plant genetic resources and breeding" can be found here: Results Pack
27.02.2026
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Free online resource “Stress Knowledge Map” aims to boost plant stress research
The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims to understand the signalling pathways for single and combined abiotic stresses to the selection of potato cultivars more resilient to climate change. One of the most key deliverables of the project, the “Stress Knowledge Map” (SKM) has been recently published in the scientific journal Plant Communications.
30.04.2024
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Field trials’ progress report 2023
The project is now already in its third year and to confirm the findings from previous years, also in 2023 several field trials are being conducted at different European locations: Large trials consisting of the same 54 potato varieties that have been tested in the previous years are being conducted in the Netherlands and Serbia, carried out by Meijer Potato and HZPC, respectively. In addition, smaller trials focusing on a selection of 16 varieties are being conducted by the AGES in collaboration with the NÖS in the Marchfeld, Austria.
14.07.2023
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Updates on the Austrian potato variety trials (Nov 2022)
Within the project, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) together with the Austrian potato breeding company NOES (NÖ Saatbaugenossenschaft GmbH) conducts field trials with selected varieties with the aim to propose improvements to standard VCU protocols. In 2022, the first year of the Austrian potato variety trials was successfully accomplished…
26.10.2022
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ADAPT project – 2021 field trials’ progress report
The project is progressing well following initial plans and currently two stress trials are being conducted, each consisting of 54 potato varieties which have been selected based on previous projects for differential sensitivity to heat and drought stress. ADAPT field trials are designed to resolve global molecular and physiological changes in potato plants exposed to multiple abiotic stressors and correlate them to tuber yield. The field trials are conducted by Europatat’s and ADAPT’s consortium members HZPC (heat stress-ware field, in Valencia-Spain) and Meijer Potato (drought stress-ware field in Lewedorp and seed multiplication in Nagele – the Netherlands).
30.09.2021
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Farmer’s survey’s points out climate change as the biggest threat to potato production in Europe
The needs of potato growers are of fundamental interest for the researchers, industrial partners and breeders involved in the project. In an online survey, ADAPT asked for the farmers’ perception of climate change, their experiences concerning its impact on potato production, and their need for adapted potato varieties. The survey was available in ten languages (English, German, Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Serbian and Greek) and accessible from December 2020 to April 2021. In total, the survey’s responsible ADAPT partner, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), received 553 replies, of which most were from farmers with potato production locations in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Belgium, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom.
01.07.2021
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Launch of the new project ‘ADAPT‘ to study potato’s adaption mechanisms to multiple stresses
The ADAPT consortium has successfully launched the project “Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato”, which aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future. The ADAPT project will take place over the next four years with a total budget of 5 million Euro from the EU Horizon 2020 program (No GA 2020 862-858).
31.08.2020