INCAS: Increasing Salt Tolerance in Solanum (07912)

Project nummer: 07912

Omschrijving van het onderzoek

Soil salinity accounts for large reductions in the yield of a wide variety of crops world wide. The area of salt-affected land is very large already (estimated around 1000x10^6 ha) and rapidly increasing due to increased irrigation and dryland farming practices. Therefore, enhancement of crop resistance to soil salinity is becoming a frequent objective for plant breeders. Attempts to improve the salt tolerance of crops through conventional breeding programs have met with limited success because salt tolerance is physiologically and genetically a complex trait. The object of this project is to provide breeders with molecular markers that will greatly facilitate the selection of stress (salt/drought) tolerant potato plants. The identification and characterization of these markers will be done through a combination of candidate gene (CG) analysis and quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis.

Gebruikers

Three companies are involved in this project.

Projectleider

Dr.ir. A.H. de Boer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculteit der Aard- en Levenswetenschappen
Ontwikkelingsgenetica
Postbus 7161
1007 MC AMSTERDAM

Status van het project

Startdatum:	01-01-2008
Einddatum:	15-03-2011

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