Promoting a Plant Genetic Resource Community for Europe

Informations projet

PRO-GRACE

N° de convention de subvention: 101094738

DOI

10.3030/101094738

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 12 Decembre 2022

Date de début 1 Janvier 2023

Date de fin 31 Octobre 2025

Financé au titre de

• Research infrastructures

Coût total

€ 2 847 250,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 847 250,00

Coordonné par

AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE
Italy

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Livrables

Documents, reports (25)

A blueprint for a capacity building programme for genebanks and in situ/on farm conservation networks
Methods and minimum quality standards for in situ management of PGR, including CWR and WFP
System for describing, managing and accessing in situ conserved populations an interfacing them with EURISCO
Revised Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation, including communication activities
Governance structure of the proposed infrastructure
Minimum quality standards for genebank operations
A blueprint for constructing national inventories of in situ resources
Blueprint for a genebank quality certification system
Demonstration of metabolomic methods and services

Demonstration of metabolomic methods and services for the identification of metabolites relevant for plant performance and food quality, such as nutritional/antinutritional/toxic metabolites in CWR/WFP material and CWR introgressions in 2 different gene pools

Unified, crop-specific standards, protocols and descriptors for the evaluation of the phenotypes and agronomic characteristics of PGR, incorporating the ECPGR, MIAPPE, Crop Ontology EMPHASIS and final user recommendations and methodologies (version 2)
An analysis of the ethical, social and regulatory aspects of the transition of the present PGR system to an integrated pan-European Research Infrastructure
Standards for collecting and displaying phenotypic data and images
Demonstration of bioinformatic methods and services for kinship/population structure/pedigree determination, gap analyses, GWAS and QTL analyses
A system for the unique identification of PGR based both on DOIs and DNA barcoding
1st International workshop and training school on Plant Genetic Resources
2nd International workshop and training school on Plant Genetic Resources
Demonstration of DNA barcoding, reduced representation sequencing/resequencing and cytogenomic methods and services

Demonstration of DNA barcoding, reduced representation sequencing/resequencing and cytogenomic methods and services for the assessment of the genetic variability, PAVs, assisting gap analysis, ploidy/aneuploidy determination and facilitation of interspecific crossing/introgression programs

Online meeting with other research infrastructures on related domains, defining the synergies and avoiding possible areas of overlap

Online meeting with other RI to discuss synergies and avoid possible areas ofoverlap

Simplified sample collection protocols amenable to use by non-specialized personnel
Unified, crop-specific standards and protocols for the evaluation of the phenotypes and agronomic characteristics of PGR, incorporating the ECPGR, MIAPPE, Crop Ontology, EMPHASIS and final user recommendations and methodologies
Standards for collecting and displaying genetic data
Inventory of PGR information not yet represented in EURISCO and unified strategy for the interfacing of different information systems with EURISCO
Identification of the scientific services, stakeholders, promoters, and utilizers of the proposed RI (v1)
“Minimum Information About a Biological Collection” standard
Identification of the scientific services, stakeholders, promoters, and utilizers of the proposed RI (v2)

Data Management Plan (2)

Data management plan
Revised data management plan

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Project public website
Interconnection of the different phenotype databases with the central EURISCO information system

Other (1)

Workshop on the evaluation of in situ and ex situ PGR collections, organized in collaboration with the EMPHASIS RI

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

History and current status of plant genetic resources conserved and maintained by the Hungarian central genebank

Auteurs: Zoltan Ay, Attila Simon, Adrienn Gyurkó, Evelin Fekete, Balázs Horváth, Borbála Baktay
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2025, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.FCUW9498

QTL mapping for kernel-related traits in a durum wheat x T. dicoccum segregating population

Auteurs: Ana Paola Valladares Garcia, Francesca Desiderio, Rosanna Simeone, Stefano Ravaglia, Roberto Ciorba, Agostino Fricano, Davide Guerra, Antonio Blanco, Luigi Cattivelli, Elisabetta Mazzucotelli
Publié dans: Frontiers in Plant Science, Numéro 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-462X
Éditeur: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/FPLS.2023.1253385

The use of web resources for metabolomics in horticultural crops

Auteurs: Esra Karakas; Mustafa Bulut; Alisdair R. Fernie
Publié dans: Horticulture Advances, Numéro 3, 2025, ISSN 2948-1104
Éditeur: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S44281-025-00073-8

Resequencing and phenotyping of the first highly inbred eggplant multiparent population reveal SmLBD13 as a key gene associated with root morphology

Auteurs: Andrea Arrones , Virginia Baraja-Fonseca , Andrea Solana , Mariola Plazas , Salvador Soler , Jaime Prohens , Santiago Vilanova and Pietro Gramazio
Publié dans: Horticulture Research, ISSN 2052-7276
Éditeur: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/HR/UHAF167

A proposal for genebank metrics to enhance collection management

Auteurs: Theo van Hintum, Bela Bartha, Claudio Niggli, Alvina Avagyan, Sylvia Vogl, Lisa Achathaler, Vojtech Holubec, Ludmilla Papouskova, Francesco Ferrari, Graziano Rossi, Attila Simon, Lajos Horvath, Renata Kowalik, Maja Boczkowka, Stephan Weise, Markus Oppermann, Maarten van Zonneveld, Matija Obreza, Erik Wijnker, Noam Chayut, Fadia Chairi, Johan Axelsson, Lise Lykke Steffensen, Filippo Guzzon
Publié dans: Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization, 2025, ISSN 1479-2621
Éditeur: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S147926212510021X

What metabolomics has taught us about tomato fruit ripening and quality

Auteurs: Esra Karakas, Alisdair R Fernie
Publié dans: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2025, ISSN 0022-0957
Éditeur: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/JXB/ERAF209

A significantly enhanced role for plant genetic resource centres in linking in situ and ex situ conservation to aid user germplasm access

Auteurs: Nigel Maxted, Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon, Catherine Hazel Aguilar, Ana Maria Barata, Béla Bartha, Riccardo Bocci, Domenico De Paola, Heli S. Fitzgerald, Louis John Fresta, Pietro Fusani, Giovanni Giuliano, Filippo Guzzon, Philipp Holzherr, Vojtěch Holubec, José María Iriondo Alegría, Juozas Labokas, Lorenzo Maggioni, Joana Magos Brehm, Anna Palmé, Jade Phillips, Jaime Prohens, Lorenzo Raggi, Parthenopi Ralli, Dainis Rungis, Karuine Sarikyan, Jelka Šuštar-Vozlič, Imke Thormann, Goran Zdunić
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2025, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.UNVV5571

Strengthening European research cooperation on plant genetic resources conservation and use

Auteurs: Sandra Goritschnig, Stephan Weise, Filippo Guzzon, Lorenzo Maggioni, Theo Van Hintum, Lise Lykke Steffensen, Nils Stein, Giovanni Giuliano
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2025, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.LUZJ7324

Graph-based pangenomes and pan-phenome provide a cornerstone for eggplant biology and breeding

Auteurs: Luciana Gaccione, Laura Toppino, Marie Bolger, Maximilian Schmidt, Maria Rosaria Tassone, Maria Sulli, Emily Idahl, David Alonso, Giuseppe Aprea, Paola Ferrante, Véronique Lefebvre, Hatice Filiz Boyaci, Roland Schafleitner, Stefano Gattolin, Richard Finkers, Matthijs Brouwer, Arnaud Bovy, Jaime Prohens, Ezio Portis, Sergio Lanteri, Giuseppe Leonardo Rotino, Giovanni Giuliano, Björn Usadel, Lorenzo Barchi
Publié dans: Nature Communications, Numéro 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-64866-1

Quality management in a genebank environment: Principles and experiences at the Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands (CGN)

Auteurs: Theo Van Hintum, Erik Wijker
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2024, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.RFXB3570

Community seedbanks in Europe: their role between ex situ and on-farm conservation

Auteurs: Riccardo Bocci, Béla Bartha, Helene Maierhofer, Michaela Arndorfer, Michele Salvan
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2025, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.OHNK3179

Unveiling pepper immunity’s robustness to temperature shifts: insights for empowering future crops

Auteurs: William Billaud, Judith Hirsch, Valentin Ribaut, Lucie Tamisier, Anne Massire, Marion Szadkowski, Félicie Lopez-Lauri, Benoît Moury, Véronique Lefebvre
Publié dans: Horticulture Research, Numéro 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-7276
Éditeur: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/HR/UHAE239

Analysis of >3,400 worldwide eggplant accessions reveals two independent domestication events and multiple migration-diversification routes

Auteurs: Barchi L, Aprea G, Rabanus-Wallace MT, Toppino L, Alonso D, Portis E, Lanteri S, Gaccione L, Omondi E, van Zonneveld M, Schafleitner R, Ferrante P, Börner A, Stein N, Díez MJ, Lefebvre V, Salinier J, Boyaci HF, Finkers R, Brouwer M, Bovy AG, Rotino GL, Pr
Publié dans: The Plant Journal, 2023, ISSN 0960-7412
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/TPJ.16455

A multi-omic Nicotiana benthamiana resource for fundamental research and biotechnology

Auteurs: Ranawaka B, An J, Lorenc MT, Jung H, Sulli M, Aprea G, Roden S, Llaca V, Hayashi S, Asadyar L, LeBlanc Z, Ahmed Z, Naim F, de Campos SB, Cooper T, de Felippes FF, Dong P, Zhong S, Garcia-Carpintero V, Orzaez D, Dudley KJ, Bombarely A, Bally J, Winefield C
Publié dans: Nature Plants, 2023, ISSN 2055-0278
Éditeur: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01489-8

Multi-environment association study highlights candidate genes for robust agronomic quantitative trait loci in a novel worldwide Capsicum core collection

Auteurs: McLeod L, Barchi L, Tumino G, Tripodi P, Salinier J, Gros C, Boyaci HF, Ozalp R, Borovsky Y, Schafleitner R, Barchenger D, Finkers R, Brouwer M, Stein N, Rabanus-Wallace MT, Giuliano G, Voorrips R, Paran I, Lefebvre V
Publié dans: The Plant Journal, Numéro 116, 2023, ISSN 0960-7412
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/TPJ.16425

Metabolome guided treasure hunt - learning from metabolic diversity

Auteurs: Esra Karakas, Mustafa Bulut, Alisdair Fernie
Publié dans: Journal of Plant Physiology, Numéro 309, 2025, ISSN 0176-1617
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JPLPH.2025.154494

Organization of plant Biological Resource Centers for research in France: History, evolution and current status

Auteurs: Valerie Bergheaud, Jean-Marc Audergon, Arnaud Bellec, Anne Delaunay, Jérôme Duminil, Stéphane Dussert, Florence Esnault, Emmanuel Geoffriau, Brigitte Gouesnard, Christophe Jenny, Alain Label, Phili
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2025, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.ASZO2413

Induction of water stress in major Solanum crops: A review on methodologies and their application for identifying drought tolerant materials

Auteurs: Flores-Saavedra, Martín; Plazas, Mariola; Vilanova, Santiago; Prohens, Jaime; Gramazio, Pietro
Publié dans: Scientia Horticulturae, 2023, ISSN 0304-4238
Éditeur: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCIENTA.2023.112105

Preservation of fruit-bearing plants under gene bank conditions

Auteurs: Gyurko, Adrienn; Szucs-Nagy, Vivien; Simon, Attila; Oszi, Balint; Baktay, Borbala
Publié dans: Gradus, Numéro 10, 2023, ISSN 2064-8014
Éditeur: John von Neumann University, Kecskemet, Hungary
DOI: 10.47833/2023.1.AGR.008

Benchmarking of low coverage sequencing workflows for precision genotyping in eggplant

Auteurs: Virginia Baraja-Fonseca, Andrea Arrones, Santiago Vilanova, Mariola Plazas, Jaime Prohens, Aureliano Bombarely, Pietro Gramazio
Publié dans: BMC Plant Biology, Numéro 25, 2025, ISSN 1471-2229
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S12870-025-07242-X

A gap and synergy analysis of the European research infrastructure (RI) ecosystem: advancing the novel GRACE-RI dedicated to plant genetic resources

Auteurs: Domenico De Paola, Francesca Taranto, Soraya Mousavi, Francesco Mercati, Wilma Sabetta, Marina Tumolo, Sharif Islam, Roland Pieruschka, Andrea Scaloni, Anne-Francoise Adam-Blondon, Lorenzo Maggioni, Sandra Goritschnig, Filippo Guzzon, Massimo Ianigro, Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin, Giovanni Giuliano, Gabriele Bucci
Publié dans: Annals of Botany, Numéro 136, 2025, ISSN 0305-7364
Éditeur: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/AOB/MCAF092

Discrimination of 14 olive cultivars using morphological analysis and machine learning algorithms

Auteurs: Konstantinos N. Blazakis, Danil Stupichev, Maria Kosma, Mohamad Ali Hassan El Chami, Anastasia Apodiakou, George Kostelenos, Panagiotis Kalaitzis
Publié dans: Frontiers in Plant Science, Numéro 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-462X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPLS.2024.1441737

The genome and population genomics of allopolyploid Coffea arabica reveal the diversification history of modern coffee cultivars

Auteurs: Salojärvi J, Rambani A, Yu Z, Guyot R, Strickler S, Lepelley M, Wang C, Rajaraman S, Rastas P, Zheng C, Muñoz DS, Meidanis J, Paschoal AR, Bawin Y, Krabbenhoft TJ, Wang ZQ, Fleck SJ, Aussel R, Bellanger L, Charpagne A, Fournier C, Kassam M, Lefebvre G, Mé
Publié dans: Nature genetics, 2024, ISSN 1546-1718
Éditeur: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41588-024-01695-W

Genealogical tracing of Olea europaea species and pedigree relationships of var. europaea using chloroplast and nuclear markers

Auteurs: Mariotti, Roberto; Belaj, Angjelina; De la Rosa, Raul; Muleo, Rosario; Cirilli, Marco; Forgione, Ivano; Valeri, Maria Cristina; Mousavi, Soraya
Publié dans: BMC Plant Biology, Numéro 23, 2023, ISSN 1471-2229
Éditeur: BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04440-3

Solanum pennellii (LA5240) backcross inbred lines (BILs) for high resolution mapping in tomato

Auteurs: Torgeman, S., Pleban T., Goldberg Y., Ferrante Paola, Aprea Giuseppe, Giuliano Giovanni, Yichie Y., Fisher J., Zemach I., Koch A., Rochsar E., Oved M., Bandel K., and Zamir D
Publié dans: The plant Journal, 2024, ISSN 1365-313X
Éditeur: wiley
DOI: 10.1111/TPJ.16755

Editorial: Ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources in Europe – A journey through history, mission, challenges and future opportunities

Auteurs: Filippo Guzzon, Sandra Goritschnig, Nora Capozio, Lorenzo Maggioni
Publié dans: Genetic Resources, 2025, ISSN 2708-3764
Éditeur: Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
DOI: 10.46265/GENRESJ.BLDS6319

Complex evaluation of wild pear

Auteurs: Gyurko, Adrienn; Baktay, Borbala; Varga, Anna; Szani, Zsolt
Publié dans: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Agriculture and Environment, 2023, ISSN 2068-2964
Éditeur: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
DOI: 10.2478/ausae-2023-0006

Association analyses reveal both anthropic and environmental selective events during eggplant domestication

Auteurs: Emmanuel Omondi, Lorenzo Barchi, Luciana Gaccione, Ezio Portis, Laura Toppino, Maria Rosaria Tassone, David Alonso, Jaime Prohens, Giuseppe Leonardo Rotino, Roland Schafleitner, Maarten van Zonneveld, Giovanni Giuliano
Publié dans: The Plant Journal, Numéro 121, 2025, ISSN 0960-7412
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/TPJ.17229

Conventional and new genetic resources for an eggplant breeding revolution

Auteurs: Gramazio, P.; Alonso, D.; Arrones, A.; Villanueva, G.; Plazas, M.; Toppino, L.; Barchi, L.; Portis, E.; Ferrante, P.; Lanteri, S.; Rotino, G.L.; Giuliano, G.; Vilanova, S.; Prohens, J.
Publié dans: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023, ISSN 0022-0957
Éditeur: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad260

A new wild emmer wheat panel allows to map new loci associated with resistance to stem rust at seedling stage

Auteurs: Anna Maria Mastrangelo, Pablo Roncallo, Oadi Matny, Radim Čegan, Brian Steffenson, Viviana Echenique, Jan Šafář, Raffaella Battaglia, Delfina Barabaschi, Luigi Cattivelli, Hakan Özkan, Elisabetta Mazzucotelli
Publié dans: The Plant Genome, 2023, ISSN 1940-3372
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/TPG2.20413

Plant Sample Collection and Shipment for Multi‐omic Analyses and Phytosanitary Evaluation

Auteurs: Karakas, Esra; Ferrante, Paola; Schafleitner, Roland; Giuliano, Giovanni; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Alseekh, Saleh
Publié dans: Current protocols, 2023, ISSN 2691-1299
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/CPZ1.952

A novel tomato interspecific (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> var. <i>cerasiforme</i> and <i>Solanum pimpinellifolium</i>) MAGIC population facilitates trait association and candidate gene discovery in untapped exotic germplasm

Auteurs: Andrea Arrones, Oussama Antar, Leandro Pereira-Dias, Andrea Solana, Paola Ferrante, Giuseppe Aprea, Mariola Plazas, Jaime Prohens, María José Díez, Giovanni Giuliano, Pietro Gramazio, Santiago Vilanova
Publié dans: Horticulture Research, Numéro 11, 2024, ISSN 2052-7276
Éditeur: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/HR/UHAE154

Other (2)

The genome and population genomics of allopolyploid<i>Coffea arabica</i>reveal the diversification history of modern coffee cultivars

Auteurs: Jarkko Salojärvi, Aditi Rambani, Zhe Yu, Romain Guyot, Susan Strickler, Maud Lepelley, Cui Wang, Sitaram Rajaraman, Pasi Rastas, Chunfang Zheng, Daniella Santos Muñoz, João Meidanis, Alexandre Rossi Paschoal, Yves Bawin, Trevor Krabbenhoft, Zhen Qin Wang,
Publié dans: Biorxiv, 2023, ISSN 2692-8205
Éditeur: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.06.556570

A guide to using landscape genomics for the conservation and use of plant diversity

Auteurs: Omondi, E., Lin, Y.P. ,Zonneveld, M.
Publié dans: A guide to using landscape genomics for the conservation and use of plant diversity
Éditeur: World Vegetable Center: World Vegetable Center
DOI: 10.22001/WVC.76147