Pepper
EVA Pepper Network
Pepper was selected as a fruit vegetable of significant interest to establish an EVA network. The EVA Pepper network builds on partners’ experience from recent or ongoing Horizon2020 projects LIVESEEDS, BRESOV and G2PSOL as well as the active ECPGR Solanaceae Working Group. In 2024, a Grant Scheme activity of the Solanaceae WG, 'EuroPepLand', was granted, providing opportunity to extend the EVA Pepper network to additional genebanks who will work together on establishing a European Pepper landraces core collection, which will be genotyped and made available for multilocation evaluation by the EVA Pepper partners.
Activities in the pepper network include field evaluations for agronomic traits in various geographic locations across Europe as well as tests for important diseases in controlled conditions. Pepper accessions will also be genotyped to provide data accessible to association studies.
Illustrations: Loredana Sigillo
Countries involved
Network Partners
Meetings
October 2022
The first in-person project meeting of the EVA Pepper network was held from 26-28 October in Vico Equense, Napoli, Italy. More information can be found [here]
June 2021
The second annual meeting of the EVA Pepper network was held online on 14 June 2021. More information can be found here
June 2020
The first annual EVA Pepper project meeting, initially scheduled back-to-back with a meeting of the ECPGR Solanaceae Working Group in Pontecagnano, Italy, was held virtually on 9 June 2020. Twenty-two participants discussed the goals and workplans of the EVA Pepper network [more info]
Related Information
ECPGR Working Groups
Contact details
- Sandra Goritschnig - EVA Coordinator Email
and Agriculture for the period 2019-2024.