The document discusses the INRA/NOVADI apple breeding program. NOVADI is involved in managing apple varieties resistant to scab disease. It partners with INRA in a breeding program to develop new apple varieties with traits like disease resistance, productivity, taste, and storage ability. The breeding program involves crossing parent varieties, selecting seedlings for resistance, testing thousands of hybrids per year over 10 years, before proposed varieties are further tested and potentially registered as commercial varieties. The document outlines the need to improve the efficiency of the breeding program through better understanding of parent genetics and developing selection methods that are faster, safer, and cheaper.

1. FruitBreedomicsannualmeeting-Praha
7thFebruary 2012
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The INRA/NOVADI breeding program
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7th February 2012

2. WhatisNovadi ?
The upstream of the French fruit production :
 21 associatednurseymen
 95% of the certified plants for professionnalgrowers
Specialised in scabresistantapplevarieties management
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3. WhatisNovadi ?
The involvement in the innovation :
Gatheringexperimentations of applesshowingresistance to scab
Management of the varieties, exclusive manager of the INRA
varieties
Involved in the breeding program ; partnershipwith the INRA (1
NOVADI technician in the INRA of Angers)
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4. The INRA / NOVADI breeding program
Main objectives :
Regularity of production
Tastingqualities(taste, firmness and juicyness)
 Resistance to scaband powderymildew
Storability
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5. The INRA / NOVADI breeding program
3 years Hybrids Grafting 10 years
Scab +Mildew Res 2500 to 3000 hybrids / yr
Powdery mildew
Resistant selection Novadi’s Plantation
plantlets experimentation in orchard
sites (6 sites) Selection
Nursery condition / 23 criteria
/ 3 to 4 years
Scab 6500 hybrids tested / yr
selection
Level I
Seedlings Greenhouse 78 hybrids today
10 - 15000 pips / yr
Niveau II
Crossings 6proposed
10 to 15 / yr
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6. The INRA / NOVADI breeding program
Level I □
78 hybrids today
checking agronomical and
gustativ interest
Level II ●
6proposed □● ●
confirming results with more trees
and more conditions ●
□● ●
Inscription as a ● ●
commercial variety ●
coobtention ● □●
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7. The INRA / NOVADI breeding program
An integrated program between NOVADI and INRA :
= A combinedselectionscheme
INRA labs NOVADI Axes of development :
expe sites
 Large Crossing
 Use of molecular markers
Experimental
stations Trials withEufrin Network
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8. The NOVADI range
Initial cov
Dorianecov
Pitchounettecov
Verlinecov
Les Naturianes® ARIANE cov
Variety developed by POMALIA sas
orchard : 520 ha
estimated commercialisation 2012 : 15 000 t
Our new variety : STORY® Inoredcov
2011/12 = 1st year of commercialisation
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9. General needs
A proactiv program thatneedstools :
Betterknowledge of the genebank :
identyinggenesof interest in the parents
knowing the aptitud to combine 2 parents
focussing on interestingcrossings
Selecting the hybrids a quickerway
looking for the interestinggenesthat come from the
parents
eliminateplantletsinstead of trees
Reduction of the cost / hybrid ; largernumber of hybrids / crossing
for the same volume of plantation in experimentalorchard
TO SELECT FASTER, SAFER AND CHEAPER
Fruit Breedomics
7th February 2012

10. FruitBreedomicsannualmeeting-Praha
7thFebruary 2012
-
The INRA/NOVADI breeding program
Fruit Breedomics
7th February 2012