BERRIES - Development of germplasm for berry crops
Project aim
The BERRIES project aims to develop the germplasm of strawberry and raspberry available for Nordic and Baltic breeding, with genotypes that are well defined genetically and phenotypically and significantly widens the gene pool available for the breeding. In strawberry the objective is to enrich the gene pool for breeding through introduction of novel genes from the origin species of modern strawberry. In raspberry the project explores and exploits the diversity in national raspberry cultivar collections in the Nordic-Baltic countries.
Project conception
The overall concept of BERRIES is to provide N-B small fruit breeding with genotypes for use in breeding, being well defined genetically and phenotypically and significantly widening the gene pool available for the breeding programs. The concept of BERRIES will add substantially to the prospects of the programs to breed for cultivars with high quality and increased resilience to important biological (diseases) and environmental (winter hardiness) stresses.
Planned results:
- Parents with high breeding value for climate adaptation traits developed from wild and backcross advanced germplasms of the origin species of garden strawberry.
- A defined set of raspberry cultivars representing the available genetic diversity within N-B collections, the cultivars being genotyped and phenotyped for a range of key characters.
- Marker-trait associations identified and KASP markers developed and available for Nordic-Baltic berry breeding.
Project partners:
1. Njøs Fruit and Berry Centre AS (NJØS), Norway
2. Graminor AS, Norway
3. National Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Finland
4. Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMÜ), Estonia
5. Institute of Horticulture (LatHort), Latvia
6. The Programme for Diversity in Cultivated Plants (POM), Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
7. Pometet, Copenhagen University (UCPH-PLEN), Denmark
8. Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norway