Report on the holobiont as promising selection target to improve resilience and product quality

Summary

The deliverable D3.7 aims to support the scientific community to promote an adapted vision of plant breeding for organic agriculture that has been called “organic plant breeding”. This vision advocates a holistic approach and comes back to the foundation and the four principles of organic agriculture, i.e., ecology, fairness, health, and care. After a short introduction (Chapter 1) and description of LIVESEED experiments (Chapter 2) this document is constituted a literature review of the holobiont (Chapter 3), the consequences in terms on organic plant breeding and seed production (Chapter 4), the results of various LIVESEED experiments (Chapter 5) and a synthesis on new perspectives based on the integration of these sources of information (Chapter 6), as well as detailed results of LIVESEED experiments in Annex 1 to 4.