Prof. Gao Zhongshan and Prof. Jia Hujuan from institute of fruit attended the annual EU Fruit Breedomics project meeting on February 24-26, 2015 in Avignon, France. Zhejiang University participates in this project together with Horticultural Institute, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhenzhou Fruit Research Institute, CAAS and Horticultural Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the evaluation of Chinese peach germplasm with 9K SNPs and genome wide association analysis. This project started in March 2011, and will end in August 2015.
Fruit Breedomics (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, contract No. 265582) has as its strategic goal to improve the efficiency of fruit breeding by bridging the gap between scientific genetics research and application in breeding. The project focused primarily on apple and peach, two major fruits in Europe. It is large scale international collaborative project funded by European Commission.
Fruit Breedomics takes a multidisciplinary approach, including genetics, genomics, ecophysiology and bioinformatics, to improve the efficiency apple and peach breeding programmes. Fruit Breedomics will provide the fruit tree sector with cutting-edge breeding tools to improve selection efficiency as well as superior pre-breeding material to meet grower and consumer demands for healthy cultivars of high quality that can be grown in sustainable agriculture systems. The project will develop tailored molecular and bioinformatics tools to extensively exploit the diversity present in European germplasm collections and breeding populations. This will lead to the selection of desired favourable genes needed for improvement of main horticultural traits. For more information, please go to project website: http://www.fruitbreedomics.com/
