October 29, 2018

G2P-SOL presented at the Belt and Road International Symposium on Vegetable Industry & Technology
 
The Belt and Road International Symposium on Vegetable Industry and Science & Technology was held in Beijing from 13 to 17 October 2018.
Topics of the events were the current status of vegetable and seed industry, and vegetable science in China, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Chilie, Egypt, Morocco, Brazil, Malaysia, Russia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

Nearly 150 delegates (researchers, students, breeders, managers) attended this event to discuss the advances and trends to contribute to a better horticulture.

Ivanka Tringovska (MVCRI), G2P-SOL partner, gave a presentation entitled “Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute – past, present and future”. Among other initiatives, she presented the mission and objectives of the G2P-SOL project and MVCRI role in the project. This session was attended also by students from Henan University of Science and Technology in Luoyang.
 
The G2P-SOL project (Title: Linking genetic resources, genomes and phenotypes of Solanaceous crops) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 677379.