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It will set a multi-faceted roadmap for the following year and will examine the next generation of integrated pest management (IPM) in crops. It also aims to revolutionise this area in European agriculture.<\/p>\n
The project is led by coordinator Dan Milbourne from Teagasc and has 17 partners from ten countries, with project targets of critical crop diseases in wheat, potatoes, and grain legumes such as soybean and lupin.<\/p>\n
IPMorama will first focus on wheat, potatoes and grain legumes (soy, pea and lupins), looking at important diseases and pests of these species, such as late blight and rust disease. Based on several main steps, the project will develop a whole practice ecosystem for variety-centric pest management.<\/p>\n
One of the main plans for 2025 is to develop tools for breeding resistance and understanding how deployed resistant varieties interact with existing and emerging pathogens and pests.<\/p>\n
The project will boost pest management by collecting and curating a large and comprehensive set of genetic markers for disease resistance in wheat and potato and initiating the development of similar genetic marker sets for grain legumes.<\/p>\n
IPMorama aims to initiate several marker-assisted selection-based breeding initiatives to develop germplasm that will contribute to developing varieties resistant to target diseases.<\/p>\n