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APPLICATION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF IMPROVED CEREAL SEEDS WITH FORMULATIONS BASED ON ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI (HE4SEM)

APPLICATION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF IMPROVED CEREAL SEEDS WITH FORMULATIONS BASED ON ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI (HE4SEM)

Funding entity: FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades – Agencia Estatal de Investigacion/ RTC-2017-6756-2; Convocatoria Retos-Colaboracion.

Company responsible: CECOSA SEMILLAS

Participating entities: IRNASA-CSIC

Principal Investigator: BR Vazquez de Aldana.

IRNASA participants: Iñigo Zabalgogeazcoa, Juan B Arellano, Angel Arias, Virginia González.

Duration: 2018-2021

Summary

The HE4SEM consortium is formed by the company CECOSA Semillas, and the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) as a public research organization, with the participation of the Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca (IRNASA). The HE4SEM consortium proposes the development of improved cereal seeds by means of pelleting with endophytic fungi.