PLANTIBODIES:VERSATILE RESISTANCE GENES AGAINST THE POLYPHAGOUS PATHOGENS TOMATO SPOTTED WILT VIRUS AND ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE

Objective

Background:

This is an agriculturally oriented development of a project originally sponsored by the BIOTECH programme, where the fundamental basis was established animals use antibodies to kill disease organisms. Idea is to give this mechanism to plants.

The objectives are:

Now the team progresses to the next step, up to the point of producing and testing new resistant plants (grown under containment/quarantine conditions)

Short description of the project:
Antibodies to tomato virus(tswv) and to tomato nematode (Meloidogyne) will be developed and expressed in tomatoes.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology › virology

Programme(s)

• FP4-FAIR - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of agriculture and fisheries (including agro-industry, food technologies, forestry, aquaculture and rural development), 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 4.4.1 - Plant health

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

WAGENINGEN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

Address

Binnenhaven, 5
6709 PD Wageningen
Netherlands

Participants (3)

I.N.R.A.

France

Address

Bld. Francis Meilland, 123 - B.p. 2078
06606 Antibes Cedex

RHEINNISCH WESTFALISCH TECHNISCHEN HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

Germany

Address

Worringerweg, 1
52074 Aachen

UNIVERSITEIT GENT

Belgium

Address

K.l. Ledeganckstraat, 35
9000 Gent