Lupin resistance screening
- Nachwachsende Rohstoffe und neue Technologien
- Biotechnologie
- Ressourcen und gesellschaftliche Dynamik
- Landwirtschaftliche Produktion und Lebensmittel
Abstract
Lupins are legumes with a high potential in northern Europe due to its high protein content and adaptability to changing environmental conditions. Advantages are a high nutritional value, ability for symbiontic nitrogen fixation and the use as sustainable food and feed as well as an ornamental plant. Due to diseases concomitant with reduced yield, cultivation of lupins has decreased. The aim of this project is the characterization of resistance mechanisms of yet uncharacterized blue lupin cultivars upon confrontation with the plant pathogens Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lupini or Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Beside characterization of the progress of infection, different -omics approaches will be conducted to describe differences in the genomes of susceptible and resistant cultivars. Furthermore, alterations in the transcriptomes of the plant and the fungi will help to elucidate the resistance mechanism building the basis for directed resistance breeding.
Project staff
Thomas Svoboda
DDipl.-Ing. Dr. nat. techn. Thomas Svoboda M.Sc.
thomas.svoboda@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-94495
Project Leader
01.09.2023 - 29.02.2028