Corinne Monte
Breeding for multiple disease resistances in grape.
Supervisor : Guido Cipriani
The most economically important diseases of grapevine cultivation are powdery and downy mildews, which are caused by two obligate biotrophic agents: Erysiphe necator (syn. Uncinula necator) and Plasmopara viticola, respectively. They both infect all green tissues of the plant, leading to significant losses of productivity and quality. E. necator produces mycelia on the surface of leaves, stems, inflorescences and berries; P. viticola infects leaves, inflorescences and young bunches.
The aim of this project is to study the gene or genes that give resistance to downy mildew in the table grape cultivar Lasta and in a F1 cross population in which one of the parents is a resistant genotype of the Asiatic V. amurensis. Lasta is a table grape bred in recent years in Hungary and it seems not susceptible to Plasmopara viticola in not sprayed fields. The purposes of the first year of the PhD are: 1) evaluate the phenotypic resistance of the cv Lasta and of the F1 population both in field condition and in vitro through artificial inoculation with the pathogen; 2) make crosses of the cv Lasta with at least two sensitive genotypes to produce two mapping populations. Linkage maps will be produced using two different types of molecular markers (SNPs and SSRs).
Biography and contacts
Corinne Monte was born in 1988 in Udine-Italy. In 2011 graduated in Biotechnology (97/110) and 2014 graduated in Plant and Animal Biotechnology (110/110 cum laude) at Udine University (Italy). In 2015 she started the doctoral course at the PhD school “Agriculture Science and Biotechnology” at the University of Udine.
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