Plant Breeding and Genetics https://www.facebook.com/Egyptian.Finnish.Project/?ref=bookmarks Program Alan Schulman, Elina Kiviharjo, Pirjo Tanhaunapää, Jaakko Tanskanen & Oiva Niemeläinen; Natural Resources Institute, LUKE, Finland Ruslan Kalendar; Helsinki Univ., Finland Marwa Ghonaim, Asmaa Abdel Ghany, Ola Abdel Aleem, Naglaa Ashry, Magdy Mohamed, Deiaaeldin A. Ahmed & Eslam M. Abbas; Field Crops Research Institute, ARC, Egypt.
Program Objectives: Selecting genotypes and developing mapping populations. Screening of the key characteristics in the field. Screening of the DNA-markers in the alfalfa and faba bean breeding material. Genetic analyses.
PhD. Student: Marwa Ghonaim Extracting DNA and Doing PCR of Faba Bean (211 +2 = 213 x 23-Primers = 4899 PCR Products). More than 234-Gels
IRAP-4366 Alfalfa
IPBS-2394 Alfalfa
iPBS-2229 Faba Bean
iPBS-2224 Faba Bean
MSc. Student: Asmaa Abdel Ghany Extracting DNA of Alfalfa and Doing PCR of Alfalfa (200 + 2 = 202 x 11-Primers = 2222 PCR Products). More Than 101 Gels
Prof. Alan Schulman (left), Prof. Pirjo Tanhaunapää (middle) and Prof. Elina Kiviharjo (right) taking lectures at: 2nd Seminar: "Genomic Tools and DNA-Mapping for Plant Breeding". 10th June 2014; Giza, Egypt
Prof. Jaakko Tanskanen & PhD. Student: Ola Abdel Aleem in Helsinki Univ., Finland
Evaluation of 200-Idividual Plants of Alfalfa and its Parents at North SinaiGovernorate, Egypt
Summary of Plant Breeding and Genetics Program: 1.Established of 9-Field Experiments in Egypt. 2.Implementation of 7-Scientific Missions in Finland. 3.Selecting genotypes and developing mapping populations. 4.Screening of the key characteristics in the field. 5.Screening of the DNA-markers. 6.Genetic analyses. 7.Implementation of 2-Seminars in Egypt. 8.Implementation of 3-Workshops in Egypt.
Evaluation of 180-families and its parents under sandy soil, saline water (5400 ppm) and drip irrigation; after 51-Days from sowing; 3-Replications at North Sinai-Governorate, Egypt
Acknowledgements: The project is supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland EGY/ICI MTT/FCRI-14208006
NJF-490 Seminar: Nordic Agrifood Expertise for Development, Helsinki, Finland, 22.01.2016 The project “Enhancing Development of Water Use Efficient Crops & Production Methods to Dry and Saline Conditions” is supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland .