The Centre of Excellence AgroCropFuture addresses the challenges of field agriculture in future climates and the non-sustainable ecological footprints of food production systems focusing on:

1) breeding climate-adapted varieties and testing new crops under current andpredicted future conditions;

2) Identifying the links between microbial communities, crop yields and ecosystem services;

3) harnessing the diversity of plant growth-promoting microbia to simultaneously maximize agricultural yields andecosystem services;

4) creating AI-based eDNA methodology and global molecular database of microorganisms for developing sustainable agricultural practices in different croplands under current and future conditions.

The Centre further serves as a catalyst of modern agriculture by transfer of knowledge and creating intellectual property for immediate application, including novel crop varieties, growth-promoting microbial lines, biofertilizers and AI approaches for maximization of crop yields and ecosystem services.