ADLATUS

Developing new and strengthening existing potato defense levels against the pathogens M. chitwoodi, PLRV, PVY and TRV

The aim of this collaborative project is to improve the potato's resistance to important pathogens that are responsible for significant crop losses worldwide. New host factors and existing defense mechanisms will be used to improve the potato's resistance to viruses and nematodes in particular, and to safeguard future yields.

Partners

  • Böhm-Nordkartoffel Agrarproduktion GmbH & Co. OHG
  • Julius Kühn Institute Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
  • University of Münster

The advancing climate change, the discontinuation of important plant protection products as well as the risk of worldwide spread of pathogens pose major challenges for future potato production. Both, exposure to abiotic factors and infection with more than one pathogen can drastically affect the susceptibility of potato plants.

The focus of "Adlatus" is on key quarantine and non-quarantine pathogens such as root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne chitwoodi), Potato Virus Y (PVY), Potato Leafroll Virus (PLRV) and Tobacco Rattle Virus (TRV).
The aim of the joint project is in line with the objectives of the German 2035 Arable Farming Strategy , which are anchored in the fields of action of plant protection and plant breeding: to strengthen integrated plant protection, to reduce undesirable environmental impacts and to develop and use resistant and site-adapted species and varieties.