- The cross-border nature of forestry with shared interests in production objectives worldwide.
- Benefits from multi-site, more informative field trials.
MULTIFOREVER is a scientific project combining expertise in tree breeding and biotechnologies of 7 teams from 6 countries.
The project intends to provide efficient vegetative propagation for major conifer species in EU and Argentina to allow the deployment of improved varieties in plantations, a strategy called multi-varietal forestry.
Our target vegetative propagation technology in conifer, somatic embryogenesis, has the striking ability to multiply and mimic in vitro the natural development of embryos within seed.
Team members are having a long-standing focus on the development of somatic embryogenesis, collaborating within the IUFRO Unit 2.09.02 since 2008 and further joined in this 3-year (2019-2022) ForestValue project.
All partner organizations are renowned research institutions in their respective country covering a wide range of forest research disciplines from genetics and silviculture to bioeconomy, environment and societal issues.
The project is co-coordinated by FCBA, the French Industrial Technical Centre dedicated to reinforcing the industrial competitiveness of the forest-wood sectors and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB, Germany).
Luke SE research group: Technician Kaija Porkka, researcher Jaanika Edesi, researcher Mikko Tikkinen, researcher Saila Varis, principle researcher Tuija Aronen, researcher Sakari Välimäki, technician Paula Matikainen and technician Airi Huttunen (from left to right).
Neiker group: Paloma Moncaleán, Maiara Marqués, Alejandra Rojas, Catia Pereira, Ander Castander e Itziar Montalbán (from left to right).
Introduction of new Kasvu1 technology platform for vegetative propagation of forest trees.
M-A Lelu Walter, C TEYSSIER, N BOIZOT, A DELILE and C RIDEL
Commitments for practical-oriented and communication activities to promote multi-varietal forestry as an essential component of sustainable forestry were obtained from a number of forestry organizations in 5 countries:
Project MULTIFOREVER is supported under the umbrella of ERA-NET Cofund ‘ForestValue – Innovating forest-based bioeconomy’ by ANR (FR), FNR (DE), MINCyT (AR), MINECO-AEI (ES), MMM (FI) and VINNOVA (SE). ForestValue has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°773324.
Isabelle HIPPOLYTE
isabelle.hippolyte@agencerecherche.fr
Diego A. GALEANO
dgaleano@mincyt.gob.ar