INVITE - INnovations in plant VarIety Testing in Europe

The objective of the INVITE project, coordinated by INRAE ​​in Angers, is to improve the effectiveness of varietal evaluation and information available to variety users (breeders, evaluators, farmers) on the performance of varieties under different production conditions. This includes developing new high-throughput phenotyping tools and proposing new evaluation protocols to take into account the adaptation of varieties to more sustainable and climate-resilient cropping systems. The species worked are: wheat, corn, sunflower, ryegrass, apple, tomato, potato, as well as alfalfa, soya, rapeseed in certain aspects.

CTIFL is participating as a third-partner linked to ACTA and the role of CTIFL in the project is to :

- Identify physiological indicators to discriminate varieties adapted to limiting soilless cultivation conditions;

- Participate in the design of a protocol to assess the adaptation of apple varieties to sustainable and resilient cropping systems in the face of climate change;

- Test digital phenotyping tools and biomolecular markers.