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The ROOT project aims to identify tomato genotypes that are tolerant or provide resilience to salt stress. Salty soil is a problem in many parts of the world and in many European production areas and the content of salt is increasing due to extensive use of underground water supplies.

The project will

(i) use several phenotyping methods to evaluate the response to salt stress in natural diversity collections

(ii) test natural biostimulants for their protective action to salty conditions

(iii) identify key genes involved in the response to salt stress and their involvement in genetic and molecular networks in tomato.

The project involves teams from INRAE (Avignon), the University of Turin, the University of Aachen, private companies Vilmorin and GreenhasItalia, and is coordinated by the University of Wageningen.