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Projects - HA (Hein) Overmars
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The chemical communication between potato and cyst nematodes as a basis for sustainable improvement of potato yield
In this project, we aim to develop a new strategy to improve yield stability of potato by using knowledge about the signaling relation between the... -
Monitoring and tackling genetic selection in the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida
The aim of the project was to exchange knowledge and knowhow among partners as a first step to counter the emergence of virulent G. pallida... -
Project: HR matching - molecular pathotyping of parasitic nematodes to maximize agronomic life span of non-hosts and host plant resistances
Soil-borne plant pathogens have been controlled for decades by non-selective fumigants with a highly negative impact on human health and the... -
Project: Development of a HTP screening platform for targeted selection of GM-free genotypes with novel recognition specification based on the rational design of functional R genes
Changing environmental conditions by global warming increasingly cause major outbreaks of virus and nematode infections in tomato and potato growing... -
Project: NEMATODEFENCE - a novel HTP marker platform to obtain broad spectrum nematode resistance in potato
Potato is one of the world’s most important food crops and seriously threatened by major pests like cyst and root-knot nematodes, microscopic... -
Project: Unravelling the mechanism underlying the suppression and activation of R gene mediated resistance to potato cyst nematodes by highly similar effectors
The classical gene-for-gene model underlying the current pathotype scheme for potato cyst nematodes may not properly explain virulence patterns in... -
Project: Rational selection of natural and durable resistances in vegetables by exploiting the genome sequence of root-knot nematodes
Recent legislation has banned the use of most pesticides to control nematode infections in vegetable production in Europe. Vegetable growers therefore...