Roots of Resilience” project wins 2024 EUCOR Seed Money AAP.

The Seed Money scheme aims to provide initial financial support for innovative cross-border projects within Eucor – The European Campus.

The 2-year project brings together LVBE-UHA (Pr. Julie CHONG and Dr. Loïc YUNG), the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT, Karlsruhe; Pr. P. Nick and Dr. Islam KHATTAB) and the University of Basel (Dr. Pascale FLURY).

The aim of this project is to study and understand the effect of the microbiome associated with different rootstocks on the resilience of grapevines to wood diseases.