Project number: 18.00.15.04.01

Breeding High-Quality Apricot and Pear Varieties with a Good Agronomic Performance Profile and High Disease Resistance

The aim of the project is to create new, more efficient apricot and pear varieties that are adapted to biotic and abiotic stress, are of high quality, and which respond well to the needs of ecological intensification and to market requirements, as well as to the challenges posed by climate change. This is to be achieved by both conventional and molecular selection methods. The advent of more precise phenotyping will allow the development of marker-assisted selection, particularly for disease resistance. Genetic-resource characterisation will enable us to generate data used in new genomic approaches. These methods will help improve the efficiency of apricot and pear breeding. VariCom is responsible for the marketing of Agroscope varieties.

Lansche J., Iten L.
Integrative sustainability assessment.
In: SMARTCHAIN Open European Multi-stakeholder workshop. 06.07., Universität Hohenheim. 2021.

Del Cueto J., Kosinska-Cagnazzo A., Stefani P., Héritier J., Roch G., Oberhänsli T., Audergon J.M., Christen D.
Phenolic compounds identified in apricot branch tissues and their role in the control of Monilinia laxa growth.
Scientia Horticulturae, 275, 2021, 1-11.

Aouinaït C., Christen D., Krell Zbinden K.
Traditional food, legal and regulatory issues in Switzerland.
In: Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in Western Europe. Elsevier. 2020, 219-238.

Bourguiba H., Scotti I., Sauvage C., Zhebentyayeva T., Ledbetter C., Krska B., Remay A., D'Onofrio C., Iketani H., Christen D., Krichen L., Trifi-Farah N., Liu W., Roch G., Audergon J.M.
Genetic structure of a worldwide germplasm collection of Prunus armeniaca L. reveals three major diffusion routes for varieties coming from the species' center of origin.
Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 2020, 1-17.

El Benni N., Ryser U., Rösch M., Mattmann M., Abt F., Paupe L., Gusset M.
Die Charta zur Digitalisierung der Schweizer Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft: Digitalisierung.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 11, (7. Mai, online), 2020, 91-101.

Aouinaït C., Christen D., Kosinska A., Andlauer W., Carlen C.
Are the Innovation Needs of Low-Technological Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Line with Knowledge Production by Research Insitutions?
Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, 2, (29), 2019, 183-211.

Bourguiba H., Lasnier A., Krška B., Zhebentyaeva T., Remay A., D'Onofrio C., Ledbetter C.A., Iketani H., Christen D., Liu W., Roch G., Audergon J.M.
Genetic structure of a worldwide germplasm collection of Prunus armeniaca L.
Acta Horticulturae, 1214, 2018, 203-206.

Andrianjaka-Camps Z., Retailleau A., Christen D.
Influence of apricot genotypes and their volatile profiles on their attractiveness to the European stone fruit yellows vector Cacopsylla pruni.
Acta Horticulturae, 1214, 2018, 235-238.

Andrianjaka-Camps Z., Schaerer S., Kuske S., Bünter M., Sauvion N., Christen D.
Influence of the distribution and infection rates of psyllids on the vectoring ability of European stone fruit yellows in Switzerland.
Acta Horticulturae, 1214, 2018, 239-242.

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