NOBERRYVIRUS
Healthy berries in a changing climate: development of new biotechnological procedures for virus diagnostics, vector studies, elimination and safe preservation of strawberry and raspberry
(NOBERRYVIRUSCZ, TO01000295)
01/2021 – 04/2024
Project facts Project promoter: Biology Centre CAS
Project Number: TO01000295
Project cost for Biology Centre: € 375 000
Project cost for all participants: € 1,450,000 Donor Project Partners: Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Other Project Partners: Crop Research Institute, Jan Holub s.r.o., Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology Holovousy Ltd.
Cooperation with: CISTA - Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (CR), MoA - Ministry of Agriculture (CR), Sagaplant (Norway), Graminor (Norway), GeneEver (Norway) Contact person: Ing. Jana Fránová, Ph.D.
Administrative: Ing. Ladislava Trajerová
WWW-pages: Mgr. Ondřej Lenz, Ph.D.
Main goal:
To increase the production potential of berries in a new and challenging climate by using high-quality virus-tested mother plants, improving virus control approaches, well-study of associated vectors, and better safeguarding of valuable plant germplasm and plant health.
Subgoals:
- Diagnostics and genetic characterization of strawberry viruses in Norway and raspberry viruses in the Czech Republic and Norway using HTS and PCR
- Identification of potential vectors of viruses in the field
- Production of high-quality virus-tested nuclear stocks and safeguarding plant health and genetic resources by cryopreservation
- Long-term preservation of “living” virus-isolates and their genomic sequence in liquid nitrogen
The project „Healthy berries in a changing climate: development of new biotechnological procedures for virus diagnostics, vector studies, elimination and safe preservation of strawberry and raspberry“ benefits from a € 1,450,000 grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants and Technology agency of the Czech Republic within the KAPPA Programme. The aim of the project is to increase the production potential of berries in a new and challenging climate by using high-quality virus-tested mother plants, improving virus control approaches, well-study of associated vectors, and better safeguarding of valuable plant germplasm and plant health.
