GEN4OLIVE IN BRIFF
A boost for pre-breeding activities in the olive sector Climate change, emerging diseases and genetic erosion threaten olive production worldwide. While olive germplasm banks offer a possible solution, they remain unexploited due to limited development of pre-breeding activities and lack of collaboration and interaction between the germplasm banks and farmers/breeders. The EU-funded GEN4OLIVE project will increase the mobilisation of olive genetic resources and encourage pre-breeding activities by characterising more than 500 varieties and 1 000 wild and ancient genotypes around the topics of climate change, pest and diseases, production and quality and modern planting systems issues. The project will also develop smart ICT tools to make olive genetic resources more accessible to end-users, and enhance breeders’ and growers’ participation through two open calls for supporting pre-breeding activities.
Detail description
Contribution detail info
- Location
- Europe
- Turkey
- Monaco
- Authors
- Concepción Muñoz Díez
- Hristofor Miho
- University of Cordoba
- Purpose
- Dissemination
- Communication
- Access to Data
- Data storage/Processing
- File type
- Video
- File size
- 44.97 MB
- Created on
- 01-03-2021
- Origin language
- English
- Official project website
- GEN4OLIVE
- License
- CC BY
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