Projet Plant.ID (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Many of the nearly 400,000 species of plants provide food, feed, medicines, and construction materials. Besides these positive impacts, plants also affect us negatively through pollen allergies, poisonous species, as invasive species, and as adulterants in herbal medicines. Nevertheless, plants are the most promising biological resource for our future. Current extinction risks of global flora and vast decline in taxonomic expertise demand accurate and rapid identification approaches to understand and valorise botanical biodiversity. Advances in genomic data and DNA sequencing are revolutionizing plant systematics, and modern molecular identification methods make it possible to accurately determine plants in ways that were technically impossible only a decade ago. Recently, it has become possible to detect substitution in herbal pharmaceuticals, monitor invasive alien species, trace fragments such as pollen and spores, uncover illegal trade in endangered species, make rapid and accurate molecular biodiversity assessments, and study historical plant diversity through DNA in museum specimens. However, to efficiently harvest the potential of the opportunities provided by the new genomic techniques, society today is in urgent need of trained biosystematists experienced in both taxonomy and in handling enormous amounts of genomic data. Plant.ID will innovatively address these challenges by bringing together academic and non-academic partners including regulatory agencies, industry, SMEs and NGO stakeholders, with the aim of developing molecular identification of plants through tailored approaches to species delimitation, metabarcoding, gene capture, and genomic barcoding, in order to empower stakeholders with simplified molecular identification of plants. By bridging classical taxonomic expertise with cutting-edge genomic approaches, Plant.ID will train a new generation of ESRs who will have immediate relevance to harnessing the central role of plants in the modern world.

Mots clés : plant identification, dna barcoding, metabarcoding, biodiversity, biosystematics, herbal medicine, pharmacovigilance, phylogenomics

Participants :
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norvège) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Gothenburg (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 527318.64 €
- Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 242386.92 €
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Grèce) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Wildlife justice commission (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 870245.64 €
- Select nature (Danemark) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 858825.72 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Nefeloudis food additives (Grèce) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Meise Botanic Garden (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 250560.0 €
- Modul-bio (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 255374.28 €
- Naturemetrix (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Department of Health and Social Care (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 510748.56 €
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 273287.88 €
- Transmitting science (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Leiden University (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Diatomella (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Edinburgh (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 273287.88 €
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Norvège) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Region Västra Götaland (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Norwegian Medicines Agency (Norvège) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Grenoble Alpes (France) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Dutch group of violin and bow makers (Pays-Bas) — Partner, organization partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €