Development and preparation of eggplant pre-bred materials for adaptation to climate change
- Grant No
- Eggplant pre-breeding for adaptation to climate change
- Project Description
- The present proposal is aimed at developing and preparing pre-breed materials of eggplant (Solanum melongena) containing introgressions of wild relatives for incorporating them in breeding pipelines in order to develop new eggplant materials with improved adaptation to climate change. The project will use the wealth of pre-bred materials obtained in the former project “Utilization of crop wild relatives in eggplant breeding for adaptation to climate change” (Dec. 2013-Dec. 2016), where interspecific hybrids with wild species from the primary, secondary and tertiary genepools, advanced backcross generations of these hybrids towards the cultivated eggplant, and introgression lines with the wild relative S. incanumwere obtained. The team is composed by four partners consisting of an international researchcenter (World Vegetable Center; coordinator), with headquarters at Taiwan, andthree universities from Ivory Coast (Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny), Sri Lanka (University of Peradeniya)and Spain (Universitat Politècnica de València; coordinator),)whichsuccessfully developed the former project, . The project will also count on the collaboration of five breeding companies (East-West Seed, Meridiem Seeds, Callivoire, Hayleys Agriculture Holdings Limited, and Novagenetic) from different parts of the world and an important focus on world regions where climate change will probably have a major impact. The partners and collaborating companies have a wide experience in eggplant diversity studies and breeding. The project will involve further development of materials using already available advanced backcross materials, multiplication of seeds of materials of interest for future evaluation, the characterization of materials for relevant traits of commercial interest and for tolerance to drought and biotic stresses, the introduction of materials in breeding pipelines of the collaborating companies, as well as a capacity building component. Materials and data obtained will be made available to users using the standard material transfer agreement (SMTA) adopted under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.As a result of the project, it is expected that eggplant materials carrying introgressions from wild relatives and prepared for the development of new eggplant varieties adapted to climate change will be obtained.
- Institute Name
- Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (World Vegetable Center)
- Institute Country
- Taiwan
- List of Countries
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Philippines
- France
- Crops
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Crop Seed or Veg type Acc collected Acc regenerated Acc sent to CG Acc introduced to genebank Acc sent to Svalbard Eggplant 0 0 0 0 0 - Program Name
- Crop Wild Relatives
- Donor
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- Start Date
- 1st of July 2017
- End Date
- 30th of June 2019
- Status
- Completed