Visit of Dr. Andreas Ebert, AVRDC (Dec. 20, 2012)

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FAVRI welcomed and worked with Dr. Adreas Ebert – specialist of AVRDC in fruits and vegetables on Dec. 12, 2012. Dr. Andreas Ebert gave a seminar on the topic "Introduction to AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center and Theme Germplasm - Germplasm conservation, evaluation and gene discovery".

On behalf of it, Dr. Nguyen Quoc Hung – FAVRI’s Deputy Director and Dr. Bui Quang Dang – Head of Dept. of Science and International Cooperation, presented a general introduction of infrastructure, human resource, interest of research and outstanding achievements of FAVRI. Similarly, Dr. Andreas Ebert gave a detailed presentation on AVRDC, its interest of research, germplasm source of fruits and vegetables as well as how to access and find information of fruits and vegetables on its website (click here to visit AVRDC website)
 
Researchers from FAVRI expressed to Dr. Andreas Ebert their interest to tomato varieties resistant to TYLCY (tomato leaf yellow curl virus), pepper varieties resistant to anthracnose… and their expectation of participating in short-time training courses held by AVRDC, especially training in grafting technique in production of disease-resistant cultivars, which has been developed by AVRDC. On the same occasion, Dr. Ebert shared information of resistant varieties that he knew from the work with PRC (Plant Resource Center) in Vietnam. He also had recommendation to FAVRI on cooperating with other institutions in conservation activities.


Visiting tomato field in FAVRI

On the same day, Dr. To Ha – Head of Dept. of Vegetables and Spicy Crops represented information of vegetable production sector in Vietnam as well as the germplasm source that FAVRI has developed. She also listed cultivars which are developed from AVRDC germplasm source are widely used in production in Vietnam, such as heat-tolerant tomato, cucumber for pickling and canning, hot pepper HB9, french bean FB1, vegetable soybean AGS346… Dr. To Ha shared difficulties and challenges that the Institute may face in the future and its plan to develop the germplasm source of vegetable crops in Vietnam.
 

Visiting experimental field in FAVRI


Visiting radish  garden of KOPIA project


Dr. To Ha, on behalf of the Institute, suggested the expectation of cooperating with AVRDC in research on conserving and developing botanical germplasm source and exchanging training and trainees in the future. 
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