APSA / WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium ANNUAL WORKSHOP

9 -11 May 2023 World Vegetable Center Headquarters

Tainan, Taiwan

The APSA/WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium Annual Workshop will change the way you do breeding and business:

• Learn about the latest developments in breeding research from the WorldVeg
team of internationally renowned plant breeders
• Scout field trials of improved breeding materials to enhance your cultivar catalog
• Meet WorldVeg breeders, scientists and other researchers to strengthen your
knowledge network

Annual Workshop

Participation in the workshop is open only to registered APSA-WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium companies. WorldVeg offers free workshop participation to one employee from each Consortium Company, including lodging on the nights of 8-10 May, meals from dinner of 8 May to lunch of 11 May, workshop materials, coffee breaks, and transportation to/from Kaohsiung Airport or Tainan High Speed Rail Station. All Consortium Companies must cover costs of their international travel and Taiwan High Speed Rail (if applicable).

For more information…

Asia & Pacific Seed Association
7th Floor, Institute of Food Research and                                       Tel: +66-2-940-5464
Product Development Building,                                                        Fax: +66-2-940-5467
Kasetsart University, Ladyao, Chatuchak,                                        Email: xiaofeng@apsaseed.org
Bangkok 10900, Thailand                                                                    www.apsaseed.org

To register, please visit the APSA and World Vegetable Center Consortium webpage

DOWNLOAD the workshop flyer

Featured crops

TOMATO

  • 8 new fresh market tomato lines with multiple disease resistance (TYLCD, bacterial wilt) which some contain several other disease resistances, crimson-old gold or high pigment genes.
  • 2 new dual-purpose tomato lines with multiple disease resistance (TYLCD, bacterial wilt, and several other resistances), high yielding, medium large fruit size with oblong shape.

CUCURBITS

  • 6 newly-developed bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) F1 hybrids with resistance to local isolate of cucurbit powdery mildew in Thailand and good fruit quality for short and medium market segments.

PEPPERS

  • 8 newly-developed lines of chili and sweet pepper (4 each) with multiple disease resistance (chili: anthracnose (C. acutatum; field tolerance and inoculation), Phytophthor a capsici, Chili veinal mosaic virus (ChiVMV), Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), and bacterial wilt; sweet pepper: Tobamovirus (L4 gene) and ChiVMV).
  • 12 previously-released elite lines of chili and heat tolerant sweet pepper (6 of each).
  • 30 F1 hybrids of chili and sweet pepper for demonstration.
  • 48 entries of chili and sweet pepper under preliminary yield trials with multiple disease resistance.