The quest for tolerant varieties: phenotyping at plant and cellular level. Chair Chair: Sebastien Carpentier Vice chair Vice chair: Uli Schurr FA1306 contact:

Added value and impact General o Adding value to existing funded projects by creating a network o Support young promising researchers (m/f) o Support inclusiveness countries

Challenges Europe has some world-leading groups in plant phenotyping but there is still a long way to go until it finds its way to the general plant community and educational programmes. The complexity (GxExM), extrapolation from the lab to the field An essential next step to implement phenotyping in the European Research Area is the establishment of a network of researchers of different disciplines

Objectives 1. Disseminate the results of high throughput phenotyping (plant & cell) and novel techniques 2. Integrate results from different omics levels (phenomics, metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, genomics) 3. Link between academia and industry/practice 4. Train young scientists in a multidisciplinary attitude (complexity of genotype x environment x management)

metabolomics Plant phenotyping proteomics genomics transcriptomics Cell phenotyping

First year of the Action

Meeting in CY and PT COST is an incentive and will not necessarily cover all the costs. Cyprus: 27 reimbursed/40 participants Portugal 25 reimbursed/ 54 participants (PhD corner) Germany 57 reimbursed/ 110 participants