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Conference Wide Kessler, Andre [1], Poveda, Katja [2]. SOL-ANDINO: The genome project and its impact. THE Solanaceae family is the third most important plant taxon economically, and includes the most valuable horticultural crop species. Due to this utility to humans, national and international programs have significantly advanced Solanaceae research in fields such as taxonomy, plant breeding, genomics, metabolomics and proteomics, and recently launched initiatives such as the International Solanaceae Genomics Project (SOL), the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) Program for the genus Solanum and the European (EU-SOL) and Latin American (LAT-SOL) SOL initiatives will further accelerate this process. In contrast to these efforts we encounter a critical shortfall of in-depth in situ field research concerning the ecology and natural history for most Solanaceae. However, the dramatic genomic advances that are made in the light of the SOL genome project will generate knowledge and tools that establish the Solanaceae family as an excellent model system that can help to understand the evolutionary mechanisms behind the plants’ interactions with their natural environment. Thereby more and more scientific progress will be made through comparative biology/genomics and in the interface between different biological disciplines.
To facilitate such integrative research approaches the SGN has launched a new initiative, SOL-ANDINO, that aims to link the tremendous genomic efforts to basic and applied biological research of Solanaceae in their native habitats. SOL-ANDINO will help to establish an international and integrative research network to share and enrich resources, visions and capacities relating to biodiversity, ecology, conservation, plant breeding and sustainable agriculture with Solanaceae as a case study. We will introduce the initiative and will illustrate its value by providing examples from current research on the chemical and molecular ecology of plant-insect interactions.
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Related Links:
SOL-ANDINO page at SGN website
Kessler Lab
1 - Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, E 445 Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
2 - Georg-August-University Göttingen, Agroecology, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen, , Germany
Keywords:
SOL-ANDINO
Host plant resistance
plant-insect interaction
ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Sustainable Agriculture.
Session: Poster-126
Location: Ballroom CD/Monona Terrace
Date: Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM
Abstract ID:261 |
