PROPOSAL:
ICA4-2000-30005
ACRONYM
VIRUS-RESISTANT SWEE
AREA:
FP5 - INCO2, 5/ unknown KeyAction
Call number / date:
-
PROJECT TYPE:
Shared Cost
EU CONTRIBUTION:
567,095
STARTING DATE:
2000-10-01
DURATION:
48 months
Coordinator: Prof.dr. C. Deroanne, Universitaire Agronomiques de Gembloux, Department Phytopathology, Passage des Deportes, 2?, BE -5030, Gembloux, Belgium, Email: ? le.recteur@fsagx.ac.be
Project Description:
The objective of the project is the development of sweet potato genotypes resistant to the complex ot Potyviruses prevailing in China in order to be fed into national breeding programmes. The project aims at overcoming the scarcity of sources of resistance in the sweet potato germplasm. It is organised in 3 parts:
1. Detection and characterisation of resistance sources among existing or old varieties of the crop, wild forms of the same species, or closely related species.
2. Development of engineered resistance by cloning single chain antibodies (scFv) targeting the coat proteins or the polymerase of the sweet potato Potyviruses, and using Agrobacterium and particle gun mediated genetic transformation without resorting to selectable markers.
3. The characterisation of the biological components of virus resistance that could contribute to slow down the polycyclic building up of virus epidemics
Project URL: not known
Consortium:
Co-ordinator:
Contact Person: DEROANNE, Claude (Professor)
Department: UNITE D'ENSEIGNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHE PHYTOPATHOLOGIE
Organisation: Faculte Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux
Tel: +32-81-622106
Fax: +32-81-614544
Email: le recteur@fsagx.ac.be
Passage des Deportes, 2
5030 GEMBLOUX
BELGIUM
Participants
Contact Person: CHAPUISAT, Xavier (Professor)
Department: Laboratoire De Morphogénèse Végétale Expérimentale
Organisation: Université de Paris-Sud XI
URA 115, Bâtiment 360
91405 GOMETZ LA VILLE
FRANCE
Contact Person: LI, Kanghuo (Professor)
Department: SWEET POTATO LABORATORY
UPLAND CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Organisation: Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
510640 WUSHAN
CHINA
Contact Person: CHEN, Rongzhen (Dr)
Department: BREEDING DIVISION
Organisation: Xuzhou Sweetpotato Research Center, Jiangsu
East Suburb, Xuzhou City
221121 Xuzhou
CHINA
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