THE LOCATION AND EXPLOITATION OF GENES FOR PEST AND DISEASE RESISTANCE IN EUROPEAN GENE BANK COLLECTIONS OF HORTICULTURAL "BRASSICAS"

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: AIR10463

Project closed

Start date 1 March 1993

End date 28 February 1997

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994

Total cost € 1 533 000,00

EU contribution € 850 000,00

Coordinated by

Horticulture Research International
United Kingdom

Objective

Two large and internationally important collections of Brassica oleracea germplasm (Centre for Genetic Resources the Netherlands (CGN), Wageningen and Vegetable Gene Bank (VGB), Wellesbourne (UK) together with new collections of 'land race' tronchuda cabbage from Portugal held by Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Lisbon, Portugal will provide the basic genetic resource for a programme of evaluation designed to locate new genes for resistance to pests and pathogens and to indicate where in the B. oleracea genepool diversity is greatest.

Fields of science

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › horticulture › vegetable growing

Programme(s)

• FP3-AIR - Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 112 - Interaction between agriculture/horticulture and the environment

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Horticulture Research International

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Wellesbourne ; CV35 9EF Warwick ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

INST. SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA

Portugal

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: TAPADA DA AJUDA ; 1300 LISBOA
• Total cost: No data

VEGETABLE COLLECTIONS CGN

Netherlands

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: P.O. BOX 16 ; 6700 AA WAGENINGEN
• Total cost: No data