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Short description of project
To remain productive and competitive, modern viticulture in Europe has to tackle three main concerns : innovation, quality and environmental protection. We believe that to address the recent market evolution and trends, grape growers and wine producers need to have access to diversified grape genetic resources, in order to be able to innovate and create new varieties, new tastes, new products and brands. To face the world market competition, European growers need also to be able to certify their products in terms of naming, of quality and of genetic and geographic origins. Furthermore, the demand on organic products is raising in Europe, as well as concerns regarding environmental and health protection ; thus, the researchers share the objective of using the genetic resources as a reservoir to create more resistant varieties, allowing to decrease the use of pesticides and the burden for the environment. This project aims to address these concerns, making available wide and well characterised genetic resources, some of which are today either forgotten, endangered, underexploited, poorly classified or even unknown. We believe that, in turn, this will facilitate the research of more resistant varieties, the research on grape and wine quality, and the work on true-to-type identification, allowing growers to be sure of the value of their products and facilitating cultivar registration. This approach will also facilitate consumer information about the origin of the final products. Our project will be accomplished in collaboration with wine growers and professional organisations, ensuring to take in account their demands in terms of characterisation and use. Finally, the work will consist of creating a permanent network of collection keepers and researchers, with a critical mass and world influence in the scientific domain of grape genetic resources.
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
The activities proposed in this project articulate with former projects such as the European project ResGen CT96-081 (1994-2000), the work of ECP-GR Vitis working group, and the IPGRI’s Caucasus and Black Sea Vitis project. In the scope of the grapeGen06 project, new aspects such as the inventory of wild populations and on-farm analysis of old autochthonous cultivars will also be implemented. The work will be subdivided in two tasks, each divided into several work packages (WP), each coordinated by one partner: Data and material acquisition WP1. Molecular diversity data (nuclear DNA microsatellites) acquisition on European resources WP2. Recording of primary and secondary descriptor data of autochthonous cultivars WP3. On-farm evaluation of agronomic features of old, rare or neglected autochthonous grape varieties. WP4. Prospecting and studing Vitis sylvestris germplasm, including molecular, morphological and agronomical characteristics. Management and preservation of genetic resources WP5. Assessment of the true-to-typeness of the Vitis genetic resources in order to define the extent of diversity in collections and provide unique identification to each cultivar WP6. Enlargement and improvement of the Vitis database, entering coded SSR data, morphological and technological data and adding computer facilities such as automated comparison and retrieval. WP7. Definition and implementation of a long term conservation strategy (integrating several types of conservation, in-situ, ex-situ, cryopreservation) for the sustainable conservation of European grape genetic resources.
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