GENOMITE New generation sustainable tools to control emerging

GENOMITE: New generation sustainable tools to control emerging mite pests under climate change FACCE JPI ERA NET+ project Project kick-off meeting - Friday 10 October 9: 00 -15: 30, Ibiza

PROGRAMME 09: 00 FACCE JPI ERA NET + and project Mission (J Cross, M Grbic) 09: 15 Project management (technical and financial) (J Cross) Obligations/Expectations of FACCE JPI and National Authorities, Governance structure Collaboration agreement, Mailing list 10: 00 Review of workpackages 15 minutes presentation by WP leader + ½ hour discussion for each WP) WP 4. Identification of mite elicitors/effectors and their activities. WP leader: Thomas van Leeuwen, Uv. A 10: 45 Break 11: 15 Review of workpackages (continued) WP 1: Species distribution models and tritrophic interactions under CC scenarios in Europe. WP leader: Maria Navajas, INRA WP 2: Reciprocal transcriptional responses of mites and plants under CC. WP leader: Isabel Diaz, UPM 12: 45 Lunch 13: 45 Review of workpackages (continued) WP 3. Identification of plant and mite metabolites upon herbivory and CC. WP leader: Lothar Willmitzer, MPI WP 5. Systems biology: Correlation of plant transcriptomics and metabolomic responses with tritrophic performance and mite transcriptome responses. WP leader: Yves van de Peer, VIB. 15: 15 AOB 15: 30 End

What is FACCE-JPI? The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) brings together 21 countries who are committed to building an integrated European Research Area addressing the interconnected challenges of sustainable agriculture, food security and impacts of climate change. 5 core research themes: 1 • Sustainable food security under climate change, based on an integrated food systems perspective: modelling, benchmarking and policy research perspective 2 • Environmentally sustainable growth and intensification of agricultural systems 3 • Assessing and reducing trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services 4 • Adaptation to climate change throughout the whole food chain 5 • Greenhouse gas mitigation www. faccejpi. com

The ERA-NET Scheme (European Research Area-Network) Coordination of national and regional research programmes through two specific actions: ■'ERA-NET actions' - providing a framework for actors implementing public research programmes to coordinate their activities e. g. by developing joint activities or by mutually supporting joint calls for trans-national proposals. ■'ERA-NET Plus actions'- providing, in a limited number of cases with high European added value, additional EU financial support to facilitate joint calls for proposals between national and/or regional programmes. Commission supports joint calls by “topping-up” joint trans-national funding with Community funding. Under the ERA-NET scheme, national and regional authorities identify research programmes they wish to coordinate or open up mutually. The participants in these actions are therefore programme 'owners' (typically ministries or regional authorities defining research programmes) or programme 'managers' (such as research councils or other research funding agencies managing research programmes).

GENOMITE mission statement Climate change will have serious and profound impacts on pests and diseases of agricultural crops in Europe and it is vital that new tools and management methods are developed to tackle the problems that will increasingly threaten EU food production as a result. In this project, for the first time, comprehensive state-of-the-art genomic, metabolomic and modelling methods will be used to develop the necessary tools and management methods for tackling spider mites that are increasingly serious pests of many important crops throughout the EU. This will not only be an outstanding contribution to spider mite management under climate change but crucially be an example, demonstrating how the best and most advanced methods can be applied to the vast array of other important pests and diseases that will develop because of climate change.

SPIDER MITES Spider mite outbreaks and crop damage are strongly favoured by high temperatures and drought stress caused by climate change (especially in combination) that will have a serious impact not only in southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin but also throughout Europe because of more extreme weather events including heat waves and droughts. The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae (TSSM), is a highly polyphagous species which attacks many crops and is adapting to attack several important new crops including grape vines and corn. Tetranychus evansi (TE) is a recently arrived alien invasive pest that is spreading through Europe and attacks important solanacious crops including tomato and potato. PREDATORY MITES Phytoseiid predatory mites are the main naturally occurring predators that help regulate spider mite populations and are introduced as biocontrol agents for control of spider mites in commercial crops. They are sensitive to broad-spectrum insecticides and the increasing use of these insecticides to control other alien invasive pests, e. g. spotted wing Drosophila and brown marmorated stink bug, are harming them and causing more serious outbreaks of spider mites.

• • • In this project, teams from 7 EU countries and Canada will model the performance of each organism in plant-spider mite-predators tritrophic interaction under changing climatic (CC) conditions. This will be accompanied by determination of reciprocal transcriptional and metabolomics changes in plants (tomato and strawberry) and spider mites (TSSM and TE) upon their interactions under normal and CC scenarios. In addition, we will search for elicitors and effectors of TSSM and TE that are capable of modulating plant defences. Using Systems biology approaches, we will link performance of plants and mites with genome-wide changes in their responses. Thus, our study will not only model performance of organisms involve in tritrophic interaction, but will also model processes whose changes lead to modulated performance under CC. This comprehensive knowledge can then be used to develop new tools and methods for climate-smart pest control

Project obligations (Expectations of FACCE/National authorities) Start and end dates: 3 year project. Must end by 31 December 2017. Therefore start 1 January 2015 Scientific reporting: Annual reports to the secretariat based at Projektträger Jülich, Forschungszentrum Jülich Gmb. H, Germany submitted by the project coordinator no later than 3 months after the 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd year from the start of the grant. Financial reporting: National authority requirements. For UK (BBSRC), EMR have to complete and return a finance expenditure statement within 3 months of the end date of a research grant, and annual interim reports Dissemination: Grant holders will be required to attend the ERANET+ dissemination events. It is a requirement to provide project material to the ERANET+ call secretariat to appear on the FACCE-JPI website. Grant holders must acknowledge FACCE ERANET+ and national authorities in their publications and any other means of dissemination of the project results. Data Management: Comply with national authority Data Sharing and Open Access policies. Collaboration agreement: A collaboration agreement between all project partners is required. For UK, must be in place no later than 6 months after the start of the project. For France, before project starts? A notification that the collaboration agreement is in place and has been signed must be submitted by the coordinator to the call office. DESCA Horizon 2020 model consortium agreement provided

Governance structure (section 6) General assembly (the decision-making body of the consortium) • Chaired by consortium coordinator (Jerry) and project scientific leader (Mike) • One representative of each party (can appoint substitute or proxy) INRA (Maria), MPI (Lothar), CUT (Menelaos), Uv. A (Thomas), VIB Uo. G (Yves/Stephane), UPM (Isabel), CSIC (Pedro), UWA (Mike/Vava), EMR (Richard) • Properly run meeting with agenda and minutes etc • Meet face to face annually Management support team (= ‘Steering Committee’) (appointed by general assembly) • Chaired by project leader (J Cross) and project scientific leader (Mike) • WP leaders to report on progress in their WP WP 1 (Maria), WP 2 (Isabel), WP 3 (Lothar), WP 4 (Thomas), WP 5 (Yves/Stephane) • Meet by Skype or ‘phone conference call quarterly etc • Properly run meeting with agenda and minutes Scientific advisory board • Who? • Modus operandi?

Finalise collaboration agreement Section 6 a) Do we want to use the management support team option b) Do any of the consortium have identified affiliated entities they need registering c) Will the External Expert Advisory Board be formed Section 8 There are two options and we should decide which to opt for 8. 4 we need to decide if that clause is needed. 9. 4 and 9. 6 consortium should be consulted 11. 8 we need to decide which option

Next steps 1. Jerry to finalise the collaboration agreement and send to all parties for signature 2. Consortium partners to get collaboration agreement singed by correct authority and return. pdf of signature page to J Cross INRA (Maria), MPI (Lothar), CUT (Menelaos), Uv. A (Thomas), VIB Uo. G (Yves), UPM (Isabel), CSIC (Pedro), UWA (Mike/Vava) 3. Finalise start date (1 Jan 2015) with national authorities 4. WP leaders to manage their WP! 5. Agee programme of Management Support Team meetings 6. Agree General Assembly meetings