{"id":9249,"date":"2023-03-06T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:40:38","slug":"alvigen-project-kicks-off-with-fieldwork","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/projeto-alvigen-arranca-com-trabalho-de-campo\/","title":{"rendered":"AlViGen project kicks off with fieldwork to identify the fungus responsible for yellow rust on wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 27 and 28 and March 1 and 3, the \u201cAlViGen: Creation of a hub in ALentejo for the GENomic Surveillance of diseases in agriculture\u201d project team began its fieldwork by installing spore traps, known as capta-esporos, in wheat fields in Portalegre, Beja, \u00c9vora and M\u00e9rida. The traps make it possible to capture spores and identify the species of fungus circulating in the air and, in particular, variants of the fungus Puccinia striiformis<\/em> f.sp. tritici<\/em>, causing yellow rust on wheat, as well as its virulence characteristics and resistance to fungicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, the spore traps were installed in eight wheat fields in the Alentejo (Alto, Central and Baixo) and Spanish Extremadura, two of the poorest regions in Europe, whose economy is largely dependent on agriculture, and in which the fungus Puccinia striiformis<\/em> f.sp. tritici<\/em> has had a particular impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of setting up these wheat fields is to implement a cross-border network of traps that capture spores from the air and enable early detection of fungi circulating in the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team will collect samples on a weekly\/fortnightly basis, for 3 months a year, during the wheat production cycle. Regular monitoring of the diversity of fungal species circulating on wheat fields will also make it possible to detect the appearance of new pathogenic fungi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manuel Patanita, a lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (IPBeja<\/a>), by Benvindo Ma\u00e7\u00e3s and Jos\u00e9 Coutinho, director and researcher at the INIAV<\/a> of Elvas, respectively, and Paulo Velez, production manager at the CERSUL<\/a> - Southern Cereal Producers Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AlViGen, coordinated by InnovPlantProtect (InPP) in partnership with the University of \u00c9vora (WOW<\/a>), was one of the innovative pilot projects selected last October and funded by the La Caixa Foundation<\/a>, BPI Bank<\/a> and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT<\/a>), as part of the 4th edition of the Promove Program<\/a>. This project will enable InPP to create the capacity for early detection of multiple crop diseases, using molecular methods that allow the identification of important characteristics of pathogens, such as virulence, susceptible varieties and resistance to phytopharmaceuticals, benefiting producers and government authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more about the AlViGen project at webpage <\/em>of the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nos dias 27 e 28 de fevereiro e 1 e 3 de mar\u00e7o, a equipa do projeto \u201cAlViGen: Cria\u00e7\u00e3o de polo no ALentejo para a VIgil\u00e2ncia GEN\u00f3mica de doen\u00e7as na agricultura\u201d iniciou o trabalho de campo com a insta\u00e7\u00e3o de armadilhas de esporos, conhecidas como capta-esporos, em campos de trigo em Portalegre, Beja, \u00c9vora e […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9257,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9249","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14998,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/9249\/revisions\/14998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}