Founded by Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Administration, Federazione delle Banche di Credito Cooperativo, Bank Foundations of Udine, Trieste, and Gorizia, Rauscedo Cooperative Nursery (PN), several local grapevine Industries and Wineries, and the Collio DOC Consortium.
Partners University of Udine, VIGNA Consortium (Italy), INRA (Evry, France), INRA (Colmar, France)
Project overview IGA has joined the University of Udine in a long-term breeding program aiming to study the genetic determinants of disease resistance in grape and to produce novel wine grape cultivars resistant to downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola), powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator) and other diseases. The breeding strategy makes use of either American and Asian sources of resistance already introgressed in Vitis vinifera in ongoing European breeding programs. IGA and University of Udine cooperates with research teams in France, Hungary, Germany, Serbia, and USA for the identification and exchanges of resistant breeding lines.
IGA role IGA is mainly committed to dissecting QTLs and positional cloning of genes involved in the control of resistance to downy mildew in different genetic backgrounds.
