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Conference Wide Peres, Lázaro [1], Rossi, Magdalena [2], Van Sluys, Marie-Anne [2], Gilardón, Elsa [3], Picardi, Liliana [3], Valle, Estela [4], Masuelli, Ricardo [5], Peralta, Iris Edith [6], Grigioni, Gabriela [7], Asurmendi, S [8], Vazquez Rovere, Cecilia [9], Carrari, Fernando [10], Muschietti, Jorge [11], Feingold, Sergio [12], Perez-Flores, Laura J. [13], Pelayo-Zaldivar, Clara [14], Castro, Caroline [15], Leite, Daniela [15], Barbieri, Rosa Lia [15], Salazar, Erika [16]. Lat-SOL: the Solanaceae Latin-American network. THE Lat-Sol initiative is an integrative research network of Latin America laboratories working in basic and applied research with Solanaceae. This family is well represented in South America with the greatest diversity in the western areas, and many groups are restricted to temperate parts of the continent. Many genera and species extend from South America into Central America and southern Mexico. Solanum is one of the largest and most widespread of flowering plant genera with more than 1,500 species. The network aims at: - Join efforts and promote information and resource flow between laboratories working in basic and applied aspects of Solanaceae species. - Coordinate research initiatives for establishing post-genomic technologies. - Integrate Latin American research within the existent SOL, EU-SOL and SOL-Andino programs. Currently the network includes 11 affiliated laboratories with more than 100 people including scientists, breeders, technicians and students and various other associated non-members. Moreover, these institutions work in close collaboration with other out-of-border laboratories around the world. Several member labs are advocated to preserve large collections of Solanaceae and to survey the genetic variation on this germplasm by post-genomic approaches. The retrotransposon abundant universe is being reveled in Solanum wild and cultivated species. An important group of resources are also dedicated to tomato, potato and pepper breeding focusing on agronomical and industrial traits. Plant-pathogen interaction studies are boarded using Solanaceae transgenic plants as models. Genomic approaches are being performed to complete the tomato mitochondrial genome sequence. Plant molecular biologists and biochemists board different aspects of fruit metabolism and pollination in tomato. Finally, a Micro-MsK tomato mutant collection has been developed to study hormonal metabolism and in vitro organogenic competence. This newly-formed network is an open initiative for any scientific group pursuing similar objectives aiming novel contributions to the plant science field.
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1 - Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São, , BRASIL
2 - GaTE Lab Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universid, , BRASIL
3 - Cátedra de Genética - Facultad Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Naciona, , ARGENTINA
4 - División de Biología Molecular. IBR – CONICET, Rosario., , ARGENTINA
5 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Departamento de Biología, Alte Brown 500, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, 5507, Argentina
6 - National University of Cuyo and CONICET, Agronomy, Almirante Brown 500, Chacras de Coria, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, M5528AHB, Argentina
7 - Instituto de Tecnología de Alimentos – INTA Castelar., , ARGENTINA
8 - INTA Castelar, Instituto de Biotecnología, Las Cabañas y Los Reseros s/n, Castelar, Buenos Aires, B1712WAA, Argentina
9 - INTA- Castelar, Instituto de Biotecnología, Los Reseros y Las Cabañas s/n, Hurlingham, Bs. As., B1712 WAA, Argentina
10 - Instituto de Biotecnología – INTA Castelar., , ARGENTINA
11 - INGEBI-CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires., , ARGENTINA
12 - Laboratorio de Biotecnología Agrícoloa. Propapa-EEA INTA Balcarce., , ARGENTINA
13 - Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Health Sciences, San Rafael Atlixco No. 186, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, 09340, Mexico
14 - Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Biotechnology, San Rafael Atlixco No. 186, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, 09340, Mexico
15 - Embrapa Clima Temperado, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Br 392, km 78, Caixa Postal 403, Pelotas, RS, 96001-970, Brazil
16 - Unidad de Recursos Genéticos, INIA-CRI La Platina., , CHILE
Keywords:
Latin-America.
Session: Poster-166
Location: Ballroom CD/Monona Terrace
Date: Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM
Abstract ID:474 |
