Adaptation of variety mixtures and evolutionary populations of common wheat for organic farming in the Emilia-Romagna region
The regional cereal sector suffers from the lack of seed companies that make specific varietal selection for organic farms. BIOADAPT develops a program to recovery regional organic cereal production of old varieties of common wheat: these genotypes are the starting material that will be used in the production of multi-line varieties with improved nutritional and health-promoting characteristics, specifically suited to organic farming.
The three-year project is divided into the following main activities: i) evaluation, selection and reproduction in open field of mixtures of old common wheat varieties; ii) evaluation of nutritional and health-promoting characteristics (antioxidant activity and inflammatory profiles) of the derived flours and products (bread); iii) institutional relationships in order to include BIOADAPT mixtures and varieties in MIPAAF catalogues for their regularization at European level.
The main expected results consists of several products:
- Guidelines and handbooks: i) Guidelines for the cultivation of not-dwarf common wheat varieties under organic farming: agro-technical aspects (from sowing to harvest) and recommendations for proper postharvest activities (material storage) will be specified ii) participatory breeding handbook,
iii) Guidelines for the transformation of flours from not-dwarf common wheat varieties in health-promoting bread: the different steps (from the milling of grins to the baking of bread) for obtaining bread with optimal nutritional and health-promoting features will be specified. The use of the guidelines and the handbook is not limited to the purposes of this project, but it must be understood as a hands-on tool to spread the acquired knowledge. - Variety / improved mixtures of not-dwarf common wheat for organic farming, obtained through participatory-evolutionary selection. The exploitation plan provides that the seeds are made available to organic farmers who request them. - Health-promoting bread. Complementing the project objective, in view of the activation and dissemination of the proposed short supply chain, bread-making courses will be organized for citizens to make a health-promoting bread. The bread will be made available for tastings in various occasions of public gathering, in order to spread the initiative at the regional level.
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