This consortium will achieve the following aims to enhance the sustainability and resilience of crops:
- Develop process-based crop modelling to understand how climate change and air pollution in combination will impair resource use efficiency of rainfed wheat in Europe.
- Apply these models to identify the current and future (2050) magnitude, geographical extent and frequency of particular combinations of pollution and climate stress that will impair crop resource use efficiency.
- Facilitate farmers, crop breeders and policymakers working together to identify region-specific adaptations to improve future crop resource use efficiency and productivity.