Environmentally-friendly TOMRES tomatoes

The TOMRES project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, focuses on a novel and integrated approach to increase multiple and combined stress tolerance in plants using tomato as a model. 

To improve water and nutrient use efficiency in tomato production, one of the most widely-grown vegetables in Europe, TOMRES partners are testing and designing new genotypes under improved management strategies. In addition, root architecture and plant hormones are analysed regarding their influence on stress tolerance. At the production level, the project is investigating legume intercropping, precision fertilisation and irrigation techniques as well as the use of beneficial soil microorganisms. The data generated feed a decision support system for producers and socio-economic outreach about environmentally-friendly tomato production. 

During the final sprint within this third year of the TOMRES project, the project partners will finalise their scientific experiments and continue to publish results. Planned activities take into account all up-do-date project outputs, including the selected TOMRES tomato collection lines, beneficial cultivation measures, supporting data analysis and underlying socio-economic impacts. The aim is to prepare effective demonstration plots for farmers, producers, scientists and the general public. 

Current publications targeting various approaches to improve tomato production can be found on the TOMRES website (www.tomres.eu), such as scientific and technical papers, policy brief, as well as TOMRES Newsletters and numerous practice abstracts.