Cajamar is researching into improving crops against problems caused by climate change
Over the next four years at Fundación Cajamar’s facilities in Paiporta (Valencia), the evolution at high temperatures of around 1,000 species and varieties of tomato is going to be verified, in an attempt to model the situation that climate change could cause on a worldwide scale in the near future.
TomGEM is a project included in the Horizonte 2020 programme, which funds research and innovation projects within a European context. The initiative involves the participation by 17 universities and research centres from eight countries (France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Argentina and Taiwan).
The Agrifood and Cooperative manager from the Cajamar Group, Roberto García, asserts that “we are analysing the behaviour of the different wild varieties and species in high temperatures for future crossing of possible material with high temperature stress resistance genes and commercial tomatoes and therefore, obtaining new heat-resistant varieties”.
