| title: | Improvement of assortment of fruit crops, maintenance of genetic diversity and development of environment-friendly cultivating methods II |
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| reg no: | SF1092711s06 |
| project type: | targeted financing |
| subject: |
4.2. Crop Sciences (inc. Horticulture) |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Estonian Agricultural University |
| head of project: | Asta-Virve Libek |
| duration: | 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2011 |
| description: | The project is planned as the continuation of former long term research. The research is aiming at diversifying the production, increasing the yields and improving the quality of fruit and berry cultures by means of creating improved cultivation techniques and better cultivars. Breeding own cultivars and introducing and evaluating cultivars from other breeding programs will be continued to accomplish the task. The trials will focus on winter hardiness, disease resistance, yield potential, fruit quality (including the content of nutritionally important substances), attractiveness and shelf life. In addition to traditional methods of monitoring phenological traits and gathering data of economically important characteristics of perspective hybrids we aim to improve the breeding programme with contemporary genotyping methods .Using molecular markers for identification of genotypes carrying economically important traits will enable to obtain additional information important for selecting suitable parential germplasm for further hybridization. In order to obtain more competitive and healthier yields of stone and pome fruits different sustainable growing techniques and dwarfing rootstocks are used. As a result of the research the assortment of cultivars will be supplemented with high yielding winter and disease resistant cultivars enabling to get valuable production using sustainable cultivation techniques and less expenditures. The gene pool will be enriched with new genotypes. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Liina Hanni | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Researcer | |
| 2. | Heljo Jänes | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | senior research associate | |
| 3. | Kersti Kahu | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | research associate | |
| 4. | Kalju Kask | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Senior researcher | |
| 5. | Ave Kikas | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | researcher, head of Polli Horticultural Research Centre | |
| 6. | Liidia Klaas | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | research associate | |
| 7. | Asta-Virve Libek | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | senior researcher | |
| 8. | Toivo Univer | Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | Senior researcher | |