In a collaborative effort, last 9 of April members from the IFAPA (Córdoba, Spain) have visited the faba bean and chickpea field trials conducted by Agrovegetal at the «La Aceñuela» farm in Escacena del campo (Huelva, Spain). The faba bean assays are focussed in the identification and validation of markers for broomrape resistance. For this purpose, a collection of 200 faba bean lines previously genotyped by IFAPA were selected to complete the GWAS study for broomrape resistance. The materials were sown in November 2024 by Agrovegetal in naturally infested fields using two-row replicated trials with 30 seeds per row. The evaluation of broomrape resistance has started this spring and will be completed by June 2025. The outcomes will fulfil objectives in WP4 (Task 4.2) and WP5 (Task 5.2).
We also visit two chickpea assays, the first consisted in a collection of F2 lines segregating for resistance to Fusarium oxysporum, Ascochyta rabiei and flowering time that will be used to validate the SNP-KASPAR markers previously identified by IFAPA (WP4 and WP5). The second was a chickpea trial corresponding to WP7 (case 3) that will be developed further within a living lab approach in T7.6. The assay showed a high Ascochyta blight disease pressure which resulted in the mortality of most of the susceptible varieties. After the visit, we planned a living lab meeting to be held at the Cooperative Campo de Tejada next June for co-creating innovative forms of collaboration among the value chain-actors of this crop in our agroecological area.
