LEGRESIST
"Exploiting Genetic Variability Of Resistance Genes
In Major European Food Legumes
To Improve Varieties For Sustainable Agriculture"
LEGRESIST is a consortium of 11 leading European centres for legume breeding and molecular biology, and 2 leading technology providers.
LEGRESIST aims at:
- Exploiting genetic diversity of resistance genes on the level of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) for genetic mapping of all expressed resistance genes in major crop legumes.
- Understanding quantitative resistance through characterization of the interacting transcriptomes of plants and their pathogens by SuperSAGE analysis.
- Mapping of expression(e)Qtl underlying quantitative resistance.
LEGRESIST is a project within the framework of the 1st call ERA-NET Plant Genomics and the Trilateral Cooperation GABI-GENOPLANTE-MEC.
Funding for the German partners: BMBF/ FKZ: 0313997