DEVOLEG - Genómica y mejora genética del desarrollo del fruto de la judía común: maduración y dehiscencia de la vaina. MINECO 2018-2021. AGL-2017-88174-R (MBG IP: Marta Santalla). In legumes and other angiosperms that develop dried and dehiscent fruits, they have an essential role in protecting seeds against pathogens and pests, while constituting the most important organ in crop productivity and yield. Key processes in development such as ripening and indehiscence of the fruit constitute an agronomic milestone of particular relevance. This project aims to take advantage of natural and induced variation through a mutagenesis program with EMS, along with transcriptomic analysis, for the identification of key genes involved in fruit development in common beans. The information generated in this project will allow, not only to design strategies to manipulate the development of the fruit and consequently improve the yield of the harvest, a crucial aspect from the commercial point of view as a legume, but also, and perhaps even more important, its value in quality, reducing the fibers of the fruit, and increasing its value for production as a vegetable.
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PhaNDom - Phaseolus Adaptation and Neo-Domestication: new approaches and solutions for agricultural sustainability. ILINKA-CSIC 2020-2021. ILINKA20226 (MBG IP: Marta Santalla. Kirstin E. Bett Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatoon, Canada. Paul Gepts, University of California, Davis, USA, Jim Weller, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia. Crop biodiversity, and our understanding of its organization and function, is an essential component of a resilient and sustainable agriculture faced with the challenges of climate change mitigation, an ever-increasing human population, and wealth-induced changes in consumption patterns. The genus Phaseolus provides an excellent experimental model because the genus harbors no less than five domesticated species, two of which have been domesticated twice, for a total of seven domestications. These domesticated species reflect different agro-ecological adaptations and can serve both as sources of genetic diversity for the improvement of the major species, P. vulgaris, or common bean, and as crops in their own right. The PHANDOM network combines the complementary expertise and skills of researchers across the genus Phaseolus, to address the process of domestication with cutting-edge tools and to apply this information to improvement of bean cultivars, through commit to support each other in organising and setting scientific activities in a multi-lateral context .
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OPTIBEAN - Nuevas variedades de judía para tendencias emergentes en el consumo de hortalizas. MINECO 2018-2021. RTC-2017-6198-2 (MBG, IP: Marta Santalla).
This project tries to respond to the growing need to adapt green bean production to market demand in terms of quality. Faced with this technological challenge, the project highlights the intrinsic potential of adaptation and quality of native horticultural green bean biodiversity, made new varieties that better exploit the biological processes of production systems, and with superior quality, which It will have a positive impact on the opening of new marketing channels and on the improvement of the sustainability of agricultural production. The achievement of the objectives proposed in OPTIBEAN will be the result of integrating the commercial experience and agricultural technology that RAMIRO ARNEDO SA and LARA CASTAÑEDA SURL have acquired in the production and commercialization of seeds and green bean fruits in recent years, together with the scientific knowledge and R & D trajectory of the groups of researchers of the UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA and the MISIÓN BIOLÓGICA DE GALICIA-CSIC in the genetic improvement of this species. |
NUTRIPOP - Desarrollo y producción sostenible de nuevos snacks nutritivos de leguminosas y cereales "pop". MINECO 2016-2019. RTC-2016-4941-2 (MBG, IP: Marta Santalla). This project was created with the main objective to contribute to the innovation market in snacks and to encourage diversification towards high value products.It is carried out in cooperation between a company dedicated to the manufacture of snacks, GREFUSA S.A. (LIDER) with extensive experience in the use of technology expansion in grain and flour extrusion technologies; a producer of seeds as RAMIRO ARNEDO S.A. with great experience in improving and production of different crops; a research center as UNIVERSITY OF ALMERIA, experienced in handling tools for genetic analysis and molecular marker-assisted selection in crops; and a public research organization as MISIÓN BIOLÓGICA DE GALICIA-CSIC with experience in conservation and characterization of plant genetic resources as well as in breeding programs for disease tolerance.
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PHASFRUT - Control genético del desarrollo del fruto de judía común: implicaciones en la mejora de la productividad de hortalizas frescas y legumbres. MINECO 2014-2017. AGL2014-51809-R (MBG, IP: Marta Santalla). The agronomic importance of the fruit or pod of common bean lie in its use as a dry legume as its most recent use as fresh or processed vegetable. The expected project outcomes include genetic dissection of the characters involved in pod development, which will help improvement strategies to control the string and seed dispersal, and consequently the yield and quality of a crop of economic importance such as common bean. While we understand the genetic mechanisms that regulate these characters will also be possible to investigate its evolution during domestication occurred in common bean.
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HORTIFRES - Conservation and characterization of traditional cultivars of bean and tomato to promote their use as fresh vegetables. MINECO-INIA 2013-2016. RF2012-00026-C02-01. (MBG, IP: Marta Santalla). This project raised by one hand, efforts to alleviate the need to conserve and regenerate the current genetic diversity that can be found in traditional vegetable varieties of the main production areas such as Andalusia and Galicia. On the other hand, efforts to increase the value of traditional crops and therefore meets the expectations of the consumer demand.
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PHASEGEN - Genetic and breeding of Phaseolus. MINECO 2010-2014. AGL2011-25562 (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla). This Project study one of the main limiting factors of the cultivation of common bean as are bacterial diseases, through a genomic approach.
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PHASIBEAM - Genome sequencing and transcriptome analysis of Phaseolus vulgaris. MICIN 2009-2013. EUI2009-04052 (MBG, Fundación CRG, CRAG-CSIC, Life Sequencing, Universidad de León, IAS-CSIC,SERIDA. IP: Marta Santalla). CYTED (Argentina, Brasil, Spain and Mexico). Genome-CYTED is a strategic and coordinated action by CYTED and agencies supported by Science and Technology of iberoamerican and spanish countries focus to the bean genome sequencing as the basis for the best use of this resource Iberoamerican natural.
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A new nut industry value: bean pop type. MINECO 2008-2011. PET2008-0167-01. (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla).
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Genetics for breeding snap bean germplasm for market. Xunta de Galicia Rural Sector 2009-2012. 09MRU025403PR (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla).
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Improvement and genetics of Phaseolus. MINECO 2008-2011. AGL2008-02091/AGR. (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla).
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Conservation of agrobiological resources of Phaseolus vulgaris cultivated and wild populations and socio-economic importance for its convergence with existing cultivated. INIA 2006-2009. RF2006-00001-00. (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla).
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Genetic improvement of beans (Phaseolus sp.) and management of genetic resources for strategic use in the development of new disease-resistant varieties. INIA 2003-2005. RTA03-048-C2-2. (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla).
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Improving production, diversification, and selection of new materials of bean (Phaseolus) for producing areas of Galicia. Xunta de Galicia Rural Sector. PGIDIT02RAG40301PR. (MBG. IP: Marta Santalla).
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