An integrated approach to diversify the genetic base, improve stress resistance, agronomic management and nutritional/processing quality of minor cereal crops for human nutrition in Europe
Abstract
Consumers have increasing demands for healthy, nutritious, and innovative food produced sustainably. Minor cereals can address these points, as well as contributing to feed and non-food markets. However, they have been hardly developed as commercial varieties, with no major investment to exploit genetic diversity in breeding programmes, and have low yields. There has been little research to optimise agronomy, food processing and marketing. HealthyMinorCereals will apply state of the art methods for genetic characterisation and phenotyping of >800 genotypes of 5 minor cereal species (spelt, rye, oat, einkorn and emmer). The project will select traits related to yield, nutritional quality and disease resistance, especially targeting important and emerging crop diseases, to identify well characterised genotypes for development of minor cereal varieties and cross breeding. Field experiments in 4 contrasting climatic zones in Europe will optimise agronomy within the organic and low-input sector, addressing gene x environment interactions, fertilization and potential benefits of agronomic management suited to improve yields in each country, and culminating with innovative onfarm trials. The project will investigate variation in nutritional quality of selected genotypes and analyse biological effects of seed extracts in human cell lines. Parameters of grain important for food manufacture will be investigated with optimisation of milling and other processes to maximise nutritional quality. Food industry partners will use selected minor cereal grains to develop new food products that will be demonstrated with production trials, standardisation and sensory analysis. A study on market potential will investigate factors involved in the development of minor cereals in various European markets and develop a framework for enhancing this potential. The project consortium has a major involvement of SME partners involved in breeding, farming, and food production with minor cereals.
keywords cereal food health processing
Publikationen
Utilisation of plant genetic resources for food and feed: Case studies of spelt wheat and barley
Autoren: Grausgruber H., Hochhauser F., Naderer L., Cuendet C., Dell'Avo F., Koppel R., Kutschka S., Jankuloski L., Janovska D. Jahr: 2016
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
'Sorting the wheat from the chaff' - Comments on the spelt [:wheat] discussion
Autoren: Grausgruber H. Jahr: 2018
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Heinrich Grausgruber
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Heinrich Grausgruber
heinrich.grausgruber@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-95711
BOKU Project Leader
01.09.2013 - 31.08.2018
Hermann Bürstmayr
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Hermann Bürstmayr
hermann.buerstmayr@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97101, 97102
Sub Projectleader
01.09.2013 - 31.08.2018