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EVA - The European Evaluation Network for Plant Genetic Resources
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The Science of Greens: Using Genetic Insights to Cultivate Better, Stronger Lettuce
In recent years, rapid advancements in techniques for genetic analysis and manipulation have enhanced our potential to understand and improve crop diversity. An innovative project led by Dr. Pasquale Tripodi of the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics and Dr Sandra Goritschnig of the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources marks a significant advance in the study of lettuce genetics. Their recently published research platforms a highly sophisticated technique to analyse genetic diversity within lettuces called Single Primer Enrichment Technology, or SPET for short. This approach provides a highly detailed view of lettuce genetics and also has significant implications for agricultural resilience and crop selection and breeding.
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EVA – The European Evaluation Network
Breeding companies, research institutes and genebanks joining forces to evaluate crop diversity in European collections
EVA Boost project factsheet
Implementation of the ECPGR European Evaluation Network on legumes and preparatory actions for the creation of a new network on perennial plants (berries and fruit trees).
Blogs and news items
EURISCO-EVA: Innovative multi-site crop data management
A new paper published in Genetic Resources highlights the main features of the EURISCO-EVA Information System
Boosting the EVA Networks: a new expansion to legumes and perennial crops
A new project funded by the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture will build on previous successes of the European Evaluation Network (EVA) to unlock the full potential of European plant genetic resources
Unlocking maize diversity: a new study on European landraces by the EVA Network
Published in Biology, the study showcases the genetic and phenotypic diversity of 626 maize landraces preserved in European genebanks
Getting to the roots of carrot genetic diversity
A study by the EVA Carrot Network, published in Acta Horticulturae, shed light on carrot genetic diversity, evaluating 60 landraces from 16 countries
Single primer enrichment technology – a new genomic resource to investigate the diversity of lettuce germplasm
For the first time, the single primer enrichment technology (SPET) – a novel high-throughput genotyping method – was used in lettuce to study the genetic diversity of a collection of 160 Lactuca accessions originating from 10 countries in Europe, America and Asia, and to identify genomic regions that underpin important agronomic traits.
EVA Carrot network results shared at international conferences in 2022
In August 2022, the EVA Carrot network presented the first results of their joint evaluations of 60 carrot accessions.
and Agriculture for the period 2019-2027.