Breeding for resistance in Solanaceae
The research group aims to develop breeding strategies for durable resistance in Solanaceous crops. The research focuses on the understanding of genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying disease resistances in potato and tomato against late blight, powdery mildews, Botrytis, bacteria and virus. Various genetic and genomics approaches are exploited to discover novel natural resistance genes and to study their interaction with the corresponding pathogen. Via comparative biology, the knowledge obtained in tomato/potato is applied to other related but much less well-characterized Solanaceous crops like pepper and eggplants.
Publications
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Identification of Two Novel Loci Underlying Tolerance to Clavibacter michiganensis Originating from Solanum arcanum LA2157
Agronomy Journal 13 (2023)4. - ISSN 0002-1962 -
Converting Hybrid Potato Breeding Science into Practice
Plants 12 (2023)2. - ISSN 2223-7747 - 17 p. -
DNA primase large subunit is an essential plant gene for geminiviruses, putatively priming viral ss-DNA replication
: BioRxiv -
Potato wart disease management and resistance breeding: a genomics approach
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Native-gene-based genome modifications as a safe-by-design principle
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Insertion and repair of native resistance genes through novel plat breeding techniques
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Behoud phytophthoraresistentie voor volgende generaties
Aardappelwereld 76 (2022)10. - ISSN 0169-653X - p. 11 - 11. -
Metabolic engineering of Clostridium autoethanogenum for ethyl acetate production from CO
Microbial Cell Factories 21 (2022). - ISSN 1475-2859 -
Multivariate equivalence testing for food safety assessment
Food and Chemical Toxicology 170 (2022). - ISSN 0278-6915 -
Phased, chromosome-scale genome assemblies of tetraploid potato reveals a complex genome, transcriptome, and predicted proteome landscape underpinning genetic diversity
: Michigan State University
Staff
Researchers
Postdoc
Research assistants
PhD candidates
- Eleni Koseoglou
- Xuexue Shen
- Lampros Siskos
- Miguel Ramirez Gaona
- Elisabeth Yanez
- Danial Monino Lopez
- Jingjing Mao
- He Meng
- Xiaoxiao Xie
- Dong Zhang
- Jillis Grubben
- Christiaan Schol
- Jaae Pichaya Cheewapoonphon
- Romanos Zois
- Laura Groenenberg
Guest researchers
- Lei Cui
- Zhe Yan
- Evert Jacobsen
- Ageeth van Tuinen