[Seminars] 20 min reminder: You are invited to attend "Developing precision breeding-by-demand toolboxes: The grass pea case study" on April 20th, 2023

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This is a final reminder that the seminar will start in 20 min.

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Michelle

Michelle Huyghe - Office assistant 
Administrative support 

VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Ghent University
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Van: Michelle Huyghe < <mailto:mihuy at psb.ugent.be> mihuy at psb.ugent.be> 
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"Developing precision breeding-by-demand toolboxes: The grass pea case
study"


 


Dr M. Carlota Vaz Patto


 


Genetics and Genomics of Plant Complex Traits Laboratory (PlantX Lab)


ITQB NOVA


PORTUGAL


 

 


Thursday, April 20, 2023
11AM


 

 

Consumers worldwide are increasingly concerned with food quality,
environmental sustainability and, after COVID19 pandemic disruption of long
food supply chains, with food security. Protein-rich and environmentally
friendly legumes, locally produced, like grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.),
are an excellent answer to these concerns. Although Portugal holds promising
food legumes genetic resources, a reduction in local production and
consumption in the country, as well as in Europe most traditional markets
occurs. 

Reduced investment in breeding, particularly in nutritional/organoleptic
quality, resulted in overall unattractiveness of current varieties not only
to farmers/processors but also to consumers and to this national resource
underuse.

To increase food legumes consumption and cultivation, breeding objectives
and market preferences should be better aligned. 

With the development of high-throughput genetic and phenotypic technologies,
it is now possible to address breeding in a more integrated way. At the
PlantX Lab, we collect and integrate multiple layers of biological
information (metabolomics, phenomics, genomics) through statistical
genomics, assuring an improved understanding of this complex biological
system, and higher prediction accuracy for target phenotypes, such as yield
and quality (through genotype-to-phenotype prediction models). During this
presentation, I will revise the work developed on grass pea agronomic,
biotic and abiotic stress resistance genetic basis and introduce the more
recent nutritional and organoleptic quality studies on the same species.

The developed molecular toolbox based on these prediction models will be
important for food legumes genotyping, product screening (e.g. quality
assessment of legume batches), and marker-assisted selection for routine
implementation of quality breeding objectives within the more often focused
agronomic improvement.

 

 


Jozef Schell seminar room
Technologiepark 71 - 9052






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