BREEDING FOR RESILIENT, EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC VEGETABLE PRODUCTION SCDL BACAU ROLE IN BRESOV H2020 PROJECT - DEVELOPMENT OF POPULATIONS, ADVANCED BREEDING LINES AND IMPROVED GENETIC MATERIAL FOR EUROPEAN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
The general objective is to develop high-quality, resilient cultivars for snap bean adapted to organic agriculture based on a set of materials identified in early stages of the project (BREEDING SET) based on already existing available information. In this way, we focussed on exploiting available genetic diversity from the newly assembled BRESOV repository plus selected plant materials developed. Selection and breeding schemes, including complementary hybridization, backcross breeding and pyramiding breeding, performed, will be used to select and develop new materials specifically adapted to organic breeding. Phenotyping kits developed for bean crop were used for selection of complex traits related to resilience under organic conditions, specifically tolerance or resistance to crop-specific relevant abiotic and/or biotic stresses. The activity will allow us to select germplasm in the BRESOV repository that are resilient, and adapted to organic agriculture, to identify sources of tolerance or resistance to prevalent pests and diseases under organic conditions, to breed new elite resilient materials for organic agriculture, and to evaluate quality traits for selecting high-added value cultivars and materials for organic agriculture.
