Bean Enhance

豆增强

• 批准号: BB/T012692/1
• 负责人: Thomas Wood
• 金额: $ 32.18万
• 依托单位: National Institute of Agricultural Botany
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FT012692%2F1
• 关键词: Bean; Enhance

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is the major legume crop produced in East and Central Africa (ECA) providing a vital source of nutrition and income to millions of small-holder farmers. Unfortunately common bean productivity can be influenced negatively by a range of biotic and abiotic factors. Angular leafspot (ALS), caused by the fungal pathogen Pseudocercospora griseola is a primary cause of yield losses in ECA and outbreaks of the disease can result in nutritional and financial poverty for growers and their families. Bean Enhance is a translational research project that will exploit established Ugandan pathogenomics resources for the common bean angular leafspot pathogen, aligning them with ongoing disease resistance breeding programmes at CIAT-Uganda and expanding them so local plant pathologists can monitor the movement of isolates in Tanzania as well as Uganda, and to enable plant breeders to test the response to key sources of resistance in order to deploy regionally relevant or more durable varieties in the future. This will allow important ALS isolates to be tracked effectively, allowing growers to make better variety choices to avoid losses to disease. Reductions in disease will contribute effectively to improve socio-economic stability in Tanzania and Uganda by increasing small-holder incomes, and through promoting legumes as a sustainable crop in agricultural rotations. The project will also develop effective testing and certification procedures for supplying disease-free basic seed to common bean producers through implementing a series of workshops in Tanzania and Uganda to train key actors in the seed production pipeline; this will include members of grower/producer groups, the seed production industry, extensions services and the government to ensure knowledge can be disseminated to the greatest relevant audience and translated to achieve the greatest impact possible.

菜豆 (Phaseolus vulgaris) 是东非和中非 (ECA) 生产的主要豆类作物，为数百万小农提供重要的营养和收入来源。不幸的是，普通豆的生产力可能会受到一系列生物和非生物因素的负面影响。由真菌病原体灰灰假尾孢引起的角斑病 (ALS) 是非洲中部地区产量损失的主要原因，该疾病的爆发可能会导致种植者及其家庭的营养和经济贫困。 Bean Enhance 是一个转化研究项目，将利用乌干达已建立的常见豆角叶斑病病原体的病原学资源，将其与乌干达 CIAT 正在进行的抗病育种计划相结合，并对其进行扩展，以便当地植物病理学家能够监测坦桑尼亚分离株的移动情况，以及乌干达，并使植物育种者能够测试对关键抗性来源的反应，以便在未来部署区域相关或更耐用的品种。这将使重要的 ALS 菌株能够被有效追踪，从而使种植者能够做出更好的品种选择，以避免疾病损失。通过增加小农收入和推广豆类作为农业轮作中的可持续作物，减少疾病将有效促进坦桑尼亚和乌干达的社会经济稳定。该项目还将制定有效的测试和认证程序，通过在坦桑尼亚和乌干达举办一系列研讨会来培训种子生产渠道的关键参与者，为普通豆类生产者提供无病基本种子；这将包括种植者/生产者团体、种子生产行业、推广服务和政府的成员，以确保知识能够传播给最广泛的相关受众并转化为尽可能产生最大的影响。