InnOBreed’s first international training course (14-16 May 2024)
InnOBreed’s first international training course was held 14-16 May 2024. It was set up as an online course consisting in lectures and exercises, enabling students and researchers in organic breeding from across Europe and beyond to participate. 26 people, from 11 countries participated in the course.
A full agenda for the course including bios of the lecturers is available here.
The presentations used in the lectures and the recordings are publicly available and listed below:
Day 1
- How to safeguard and actively evaluate local fruit tree genetic resources, CRA-W (video)
- Pest and disease management in commercial variety testing for organic fruit production (apple), FiBL (video)
- Principles of commercial variety testing for organic fruit production (apple), FiBL (video)
Day 2
- How to directly valorize best performing disease tolerant and more robust cultivars from fruit tree genetic resources collections?, CRA-W (video)
- From genetic resources evaluation to new cultivar breeding, CRA-W (video)
- Pear rootstock breeding, IRTA (video)
Day 3
- Principles of organic participatory apple breeding approaches (NOVAFRUITS & apfel:gut e.V.), CRA-W and ÖON (video)
- Genetic diversity of fruit tree crops: from assessment to exploitation and conservation, CREA (video)
- Plant in vitro culture as a tool for breeding, IRTA (video)
- The NIR technologies as a tool for the evaluation of fruit quality, CRA-W and INRAE (video)
The recordings/videos from the lectures are also available on the InnOBreed YouTube channel.