GEVES and CPVO are jointly organising a Vegetable Open Day in the GEVES experimental unit at Brion (Maine et Loire,France) on Wednesday 6 october 2010.
This open day is aimed at breeders, seed companies and representatives of the examination offices and registration authorities in the European Union, and will provide the occasion to present ongoing DUS trials of vegetable species.
This forum will also allow an exchange of views on essential aspects in relation to the harmonization of technical examinations, and in particular on two important issues:
- Variety reference collection: scope, management, use, maintenance....
- The consideration of disease resistance characteristics for DUS technical examinations: MATREF network, the undertaking of the disease resistance tests, choice of pathogens...