2. Edmund Mach Foundation (since 2007)
Inheritance of Ist. Agrario San Michele a/A since 1874
A non for profit organization with private legal status and
over 750 staff operating in several sites in the Trentino
province
It provides Research, Education,Technology Transfer and
Advisory Service in the Agri-Food and Environmental
sectors.
4. Mission:
The Sequencing and Genotyping Platform takes part in the research and development activity of the CRI by
offering support at the researchers activity and with the development of new methods of experimental investigation. The first
purpose of the Platform is the development of new investigative methods, with the acquisition of new knowledge in the green
biotechnology field and the continuous improvement of present and future instruments.
Platform facilities
Platform Services
Platform Equipment
5. Genomics and Biology of Fruit Crops
Germplasm platform
Apple:
- 13.4 ha for apple breeding + germplasm collection
- 1,200 accessions (wild and cultivated spp.)
- 54,000 genotypes under evaluation /several mapping population
(quality and pyramidation of resistances)
- 8,000 genotypes in greenhouse
Grape:
- 4.5 ha for grapevine breeding + germplasm collection
- 1,900 accessions (wild, hybrids and cultivated)
- 12,000 new crosses (crosses, selected individuals or
large mapping populations) resistances with high quality standards
Softfruits:
- 2.5 ha for raspberry & blueberry breeding + germplasm
- 104 strawbeery accessions
- 140 blueberry accessions (20,000 seedlings/48 crosses)
- 240 raspberry accessions (14,300 seedlings/110 crosses)
7. Marker Assisted Breeding at FEM
MASTER TRAITS
(ie: Resistance, Texture, Storage)
- MAB consultant (management system)
- gold standard markers
- well optimazed flowthrough
8. Marker Assisted Breeding at FEM
STEP 1
Seedling layout
STEP 2
Sample collection
STEP 3
Run Analysis
9. People:
Sequencing and
Genotyping Platform
Erika Stefani
Daniela Nicolini
Next Gen. Sequencing
Next Gen. Sequencing
Next Gen. Sequencing and
Next Gen. Sequencing and
Protocol Setting
Protocol Setting
Whole Genome Seq.
Whole Genome Seq.
Target Reseq.
Target Reseq.
Metagenomics
Metagenomics
Transcriptome Seq.
Transcriptome Seq.
Shot gun & PE gDNA library
Shot gun & PE gDNA library
Amplicon Library
Amplicon Library
Next Gen. Sequencing
Next Gen. Sequencing
Application
Application
Massimo Pindo
Simone Larger
Elisa Banchi
Genotyping &
Genotyping &
Robotic Platform
Robotic Platform
DNA & RNA extraction
DNA & RNA extraction
Capillary Sequencing
Capillary Sequencing
Mid- to High-plex Genotyping
Mid- to High-plex Genotyping
Lara Poles
10. People:
Sequencing and
Genotyping Platform
Erika Stefani
Daniela Nicolini
Next Gen. Sequencing
Next Gen. Sequencing
Next Gen. Sequencing and
Next Gen. Sequencing and
Protocol Setting
Protocol Setting
Whole Genome Seq.
Whole Genome Seq.
Target Reseq.
Target Reseq.
Metagenomics
Metagenomics
Transcriptome Seq.
Transcriptome Seq.
Shot gun & PE gDNA library
Shot gun & PE gDNA library
Amplicon Library
Amplicon Library
Next Gen. Sequencing
Next Gen. Sequencing
Application
Application
Massimo Pindo
Simone Larger
Elisa Banchi
Genotyping &
Genotyping &
Robotic Platform
Robotic Platform
DNA & RNA extraction
DNA & RNA extraction
Capillary Sequencing
Capillary Sequencing
Mid- to High-plex Genotyping
Mid- to High-plex Genotyping
Lara Poles
Notes de l'éditeur
Marker assisted selection (MAS) permits the selection of plants carrying alleles conferring superior phenotypes through the screening of markers tightly linked to those traits. In practice, it is possible to select plants at the seedling stage to enable the breeders to retain only germplasm conferring desirable traits from an early stage. Usually MAS involves the screening of hundreds or thousands of seedlings: the main challenge faced is thus developing a pipeline that begins with a “lab friendly” and unambiguous seedling configuration in greenhouse, which then allows the rapid collection of samples avoiding cross contamination, implements a fast, cost-effective, high-throughput method of DNA extraction to be used for a small number of PCRs, and utilizes robust, reliable, and easy to interpret molecular markers. In this work we report on the development of a pipeline at the Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) to enable the implementation of a time and cost effective MAS program for apple (Malus pumila Mill.).
We screened 6.471 seedlings sown in a greenhouse from 24 apple crosses in order to select seedlings conferring resistance traits, fruit quality traits or both.
CONCLUSIONS
MAS involves a large numbers of seedlings, that have to be screened in a relatively short time so only superior genotypes can be transplanted.
We have demonstrated that marker assisted selection for apple fruit quality and disease resistance at FEM is reliable and in future years will improve in time and cost effectiveness.