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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Genome analysis of two newly emerged potato late blight isolates sheds light on pathogen adaptation and provides tools for disease management
Phytopathology 111 (2021)1. - ISSN 0031-949X - p. 96 - 107. -
Identification of candidate genes for quantitative downy mildew resistance in cucumber - a review
Acta Horticulturae 1294 (2020). - ISSN 0567-7572 - p. 113 - 120. -
A Hitchhiker’s guide to the potato wart disease resistance galaxy
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 133 (2020)12. - ISSN 0040-5752 - p. 3419 - 3439. -
On the origin and dispersal of cultivated spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)
Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2020). - ISSN 0925-9864 -
Correlation between total hypha length and haustoria number of Pseudoidium neolycopersici in type I trichome cells of tomato leaves
Australasian Plant Pathology 49 (2020). - ISSN 0815-3191 - p. 451 - 460. -
HIP-BB3.2 Resistentie tegen nematoden
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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Phytophthora infestans in South Korea during 2009–2016 reveals clonal reproduction and absence of EU_13_A2 genotype
Plant Pathology 69 (2020)5. - ISSN 0032-0862 -
A review on the genetic resources, domestication and breeding history of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)
Euphytica 216 (2020)48. - ISSN 0014-2336 - 21 p. -
Distribution of P1(D1) wart disease resistance in potato germplasm and GWAS identification of haplotype-specific SNP markers
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 133 (2020). - ISSN 0040-5752 - p. 1859 - 1871. -
Introgression of Genes for Resistance against Phytophthora infestans in Diploid Potato
American Journal of Potato Research 97 (2020)1. - ISSN 1099-209X - p. 33 - 42.
Staff
Researchers
Postdoc
Research assistants
PhD candidates
- Miquel Santillan Martinez
- Eleni Koseoglou
- Charlotte Prodhomme
- Katharina Hanika
- Jasper Vermeulen
- Xuexue Shen
- Lampros Siskos
- Miguel Ramirez Gaona
- Elisabeth Yanez
- Danial Monino Lopez
- Jingjing Mao
- He Meng
- Xiaoxiao Xie
- Dong Zhang
- Jeroen Berg
Guest researchers
- Ming Zhou
- Yinglei Wang
- Lei Cui
- Zhe Yan
- Evert Jacobsen
- Hajar Abedinpour