FARM2FORK-04: Technical center to support breeding for resilient plant materials

VEGENOV is a French technical center looking to join a consortium on FARM2FORK-04 to support in breeding for faster enhancement of sustainability traits in perennial crops.

#1. Tools and methods to screen for improved plant materials:

✔Development of phenotyping protocols for indoor evaluation of young trees for disease resistance and tolerance to abiotic stresses

✔Development of sensory analysis tests and set up of biochemical analysis protocols to evaluate the organoleptic and nutritional quality of fruit

✔ Development of DNA-based molecular markers for efficient gene stacking

#2. Cutting-edge tools and methods to accelerate the breeding of perennial crops:

✔Enabling inter- and intra-specific crosses for efficient and fast trait introgression:pollen analysis, embryo rescue and in vitro plant regeneration

✔ Improvement of genomic selection method

#3. Translation of tools and methods from one (model) crop to other crops