The deliverable describes the ideotypes for the different crops, agroclimatic zones and stresses. To do this, the concept of an ideotype is defined as a biological model which is expected to perform or behave in a particular manner within a defined environment. The concepts of selection indices and plasticity indices are explored, but it is concluded that the development of a selection index follows the description of an ideotype. The environments for the ideotypes are defined and the ideotypes are defined based on the selected priority traits outlined in Deliverable D1.1 List of root rhizosphere ideotype traits.
White et al. (Thu,) studied this question.