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@INPROCEEDINGS{JunkerFrohn:1048741,
      author       = {Junker-Frohn, Laura and Wolters, Beverley and Lukas,
                      Linnéa and Wiese-Klinkenberg, Anika and Welters, Peter and
                      Deenen, Nicole van and Torres-Monroy, Ingrid and Gronover,
                      Christian Schulze and Grimes, Samantha Jo and Römer,
                      Patrick and Müller, Boje and Lauer, Ira and Kumlehn, Jochen
                      and Graeff-Hönninger, Simone and Nagel, Kerstin},
      title        = {{BIMOTEC}, a new project aiming to strengthen breeding of
                      climate-resilient buckwheat cultivars in {G}ermany},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2025-04856},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {In Germany, grains of the pseudocereal buckwheat (Fagopyrum
                      esculentum Moench) used to be a staple food, until it was
                      nearly completely replaced by higher yielding cereals in the
                      past century. Nowadays, buckwheat is increasingly valued for
                      its gluten-free nature and health-promoting secondary
                      metabolites such as rutin. As a low input crop with short
                      cultivation time, it is also suitable to be cultivated as
                      second crop even under dry summer conditions. To
                      re-establish buckwheat production in Germany, the project
                      BIMOTEC investigates genotypic and phenotypic variability in
                      buckwheat as a prerequisite for breeding local,
                      climate-resilient cultivars with high grain yield. In
                      addition, BIMOTEC aims to unravel the bioeconomic potential
                      of buckwheat as a multi-purpose crop for the extraction of
                      secondary metabolites from leaf biomass and seed hulls, as
                      well as bio-based platform compounds from stem biomass.
                      BIMOTEC will develop modern breeding technologies and
                      perform extensive pre-breeding involving phenomics,
                      transcriptomics, and metabolomics. We particularly focus on
                      the genotypic variation in phenotypic development and
                      secondary metabolism in response to drought. The novel
                      high-throughput plant phenotyping platform GrowScreen-Rhizo
                      III will be used to assess root and shoot growth dynamics of
                      a large number of cultivars from a global buckwheat panel to
                      identify favorable root and shoot traits and stress tolerant
                      genotypes. Metabolite profiling and gene expression studies
                      of plants grown under control and drought conditions will
                      further reveal breeding targets for climate-resilient
                      buckwheat cultivars with high bioeconomic potential.
                      Buckwheat production in Germany will further be facilitated
                      by the development of improved agronomic models for yield
                      under drought. Through our interdisciplinary approach, we
                      will reveal new drought tolerance traits for buckwheat and
                      promote breeding of local buckwheat cultivars.},
      month         = {Nov},
      date          = {2025-11-17},
      organization  = {Interdrought VIII, La Serena (Chile),
                       17 Nov 2025 - 21 Nov 2025},
      subtyp        = {After Call},
      cin          = {IBG-2 / IBG-4},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118 / I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-4-20200403},
      pnm          = {2171 - Biological and environmental resources for
                      sustainable use (POF4-217)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2171},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1048741},
}