1-introducing the cultivation of high-performance durum wheat cultivars in arid and marginal land of Mediterranean area; 

2- developing agroecological practices exploiting the microbiome of the soil-wheat system.

BIOACT will develop regenerative agricultural practices based on durum wheat plants intercropped with legume. Wheat and legume residues will be composted (by solid-state fermentation SSF process) with wheat associated microbiome and enriched with Trichoderma to obtain an enriched compost to be incorporated before the successive wheat crop. Application of endophytic fungi as Trichoderma spp. could mitigate the harmful impact of abiotic and biotic stress and stimulate plant growth mainly enhancing the macronutrient availability from the organic substrate, while reducing in particular the potential lack of N, increasing NutUE and minimizing agro-chemical inputs decrease of losses due to Fusarium culmorum and associated mycotoxins negative impacts 

-Project management (WP1) 

- Stress resilience of wheat cultivars in intercropping with legume (WP2)

- Assessment of wheat-legume intercropping in pot with or without the use of BiaA and BioAD (WP3)

- Integration of Biogas digester into regenerative practices (WP4)  

- Re-design the durum wheat cropping system field experiment (WP5) 

- Assessment of the environmental and socio-economic sustainability of the proposed farming system (WP6)

- Dissemination , communication activities (WP7)