IPMorama will improve the state of the art in variety-centred Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for important diseases in wheat (rust pathogens), potato (late blight) and the grain legumes soybean, pea (broomrape) and white lupin (anthracnose). IPMorama aims to develop the infrastructure for a whole 'practice ecosystem', enabling more efficient development of IPM-centred varieties, while at the same time developing tools and resources for their efficient use in variety-centred IPM. The core innovation of IPMorama is to integrate knowledge of host resistance with the pathogen virulence landscape over space and time to produce IPM tools (e.g. crowd-sourced applications, vulnerability maps) and strategies that will be validated at different scales and in the context of different agroecological practices. IPMorama will achieve these goals through the following five components:
FiBL Switzerland is part of the legume team of IPMorama. We will focus on the white lupin – Colletotrichum lupini (causal agent of anthracnose) pathosystem. The Plant Breeding team will develop molecular breeding tools for Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and Genomic Selection (GS) of antracnose resistance in white lupin, together with the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL) in Germany and the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-ZA) in Italy. From the pathogen side, we will collect isolates of C. lupini from different lupin cultivation sites in Europe and monitor their virulence. We will make FiBL’s C. lupini strain collection available to the research community as result of the project.
The main pillar of integrated management strategy for lupin anthracnose will be the delivery of breeding material with increased resistance (based on phenotypic and genotypic selection). We will complement this pillar with the use of treatments allowed in organic farming that can help to minimise the primary infection in seed lots as no full resistance is known in white lupin. Organic farmers will be involved in testing at field scale these integrated management solutions.
