Implementing a trans-EUROpean PEPper LANDrace collection for resilient agriculture
Activity Coordinator: Pasquale Tripodi
The EUROPEPLAND Activity, submitted by the Solanaceae Working Group for funding under the First Call of the Phase XI ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee and approved in March 2024.
- Activity proposal (895,8 KB)
Implementation
April 2025
In this period, activities have focused on the establishment of the core collection. To date, over 430 landrace accessions have been provided by participating genebanks and research institutions. The collection represents the diversity of 12 European countries across the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, from both coastal and inland regions. Furthermore, it encloses a wide range of variation in terms of fruit shape and size, colour and pungency degree. DNA isolation has already started, with the aim of performing SNP genotyping to infer genetic diversity and define population structure. These data will be linked to other European projects and will be implemented with phenotypic information.
October 2024
The kick-off meeting of the EuroPepLand Activity was held jointly with the EVA Pepper network annual meeting from 30-31 October in Almeria, Spain.
Summary of the meeting | Report | Presentations
Presentations of the EuroPepLand kick-off meeting
30-31 October 2024, Almeria, Spain
| Title | Author |
| Welcome to Almeria (462,8 KB) | Semillas Fito |
| Introduction to EuroPepLand (2,0 MB) | P. Tripodi |
| EuroPepLand work planning (1,8 MB) | P. Tripodi |
| Presentation of collections | |
| Armenia (1,9 MB) | K. Sarikyan |
| Bulgaria (2,3 MB) | V. Masheva |
| Czech Republic (2,4 MB) | H. Stavelikova |
| France (1,3 MB) | M. Bouët, V. Lefebvre |
| Germany (2,2 MB) | U. Lohwasser |
| Greece (737,8 KB) | I. Mellidou |
| Italy (1,3 MB) | R. Giunta |
| Netherlands (956,7 KB) | W. van Dooijeweert |
| North Macedonia (7,7 MB) | S. Ivanovska |
| Romania (3,3 MB) | A. Antal |
| Serbia (4,9 MB) | D. Danojević |
| Spain (3,6 MB) | A. Rodríguez Burruezo |