G2P-SOL Project

G2P-SOL is a global research alliance bringing together the main European and International genebanks hosting germplasm of the four major Solanaceous crops (potato, tomato, pepper and eggplant). In total, 19 full and 20 associated partners from four continents take part in this project. G2P-SOL will first generate a ‘genetic blueprint’ of the accessions of potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants stored in genebanks worldwide and catalogue their genetic diversity and extent of duplication. Secondly, based on this catalogue G2P-SOL will form ‘core collections’, composed of a manageable number of representative accessions for each species, which will be extensively characterized in order to understand the characters and genes stored in the global gene pools. This information will be accessible to end-users (breeders, farmers associations) on an open access platform enabling them to use the most promising groups of accessions in their daily work.