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INTRODUCTION
At
the beginning of eighties, collecting activities of germplasm of
horticultural crops begun, resulting in the stablishment of the
Genebank of the Polythechnical
University of Valencia. More than 7000 accesions belonging
to horticultural species are currently stored and mantained, including
landraces and wild species.
The increase of research lines and reseachers give rise to the need
of the stablishment of a Research Institute to carry out in a coordinated
way the objectives of germplasm conservation and improvement of
horticultural species. Thus, the Center for the Conservation and
Breeding of the Agrodiverdity (COMAV),
was created on May-27-1999.
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| OBJECTIVES |
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research lines in development at the COMAV are based in the
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Conservation of Genetic Resources
The Genebank of the Polytechnic University of Valencia holds
more than 7000 accessions of vegetalble crops. Activities
carried out are the following:
-Collecting, Conservation, Regeneration, Characterization,
Evaluation and Documentation.
-Analysis of the morphological and molecular variability.
-Establishment of nuclear collections on Lycopersicon and
Cucurbit genus.
- Use
of genetic resources and development of improved new varieties
Breeding of horticultural crops are made by employing classical
breeding methods and also integrating new biotechnologies.All
of the research lines are based in the exploitation of genetic
resouces stores in the genebank. The aim is:
- To contribute to a sustainable agriculture, making possible
the use of traditional varieties geneticcally improved.
- To facilitate the profitability of agricultural enterprises
with regard to the development of new varieties
- To provide a source of seeds to ecological farmers
- To answer the demand of diversification of the markets
with the introduction and breeding of new crops
Particular
emphasis is given to:
- The development of tomato and pepper varieties resistant
to viral diseases
- The development of melon varieties resistant to fungal diseases.
- Breeding for nutritive and organoleptic quality in tomato
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