Department activities
- Research and development in the field of fruit tree genetics and their breeding using modern molecular-biological methods
- Design of systems for genotyping apple, cherry and apricot trees
- Use of molecular biology methods for assisted breeding in apple and cherry trees
- Search for new markers for economically interesting traits in cherries
- Determination of S-alleles in self-pollinated and cross-pollinated cherries
- Research and development in the field of diagnostics of fruit crop pathogens using ELISA and PCR methods
- Introduction of modern methods of diagnostics of plant pathogens
- Identification and detection of new viruses in strawberries.
Services and offer for growers
- Laboratory diagnostics of fruit crop pathogens in an accredited laboratory
Accreditation
A quality management system has been introduced in the laboratories of the Laboratory Complement in accordance with the standard ČSN EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2018 - General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Based on meeting the requirements of this standard, the Laboratory Complement obtained on January 12, 2017 a certificate of accreditation from the Czech Accreditation Institute for the detection of plant pathogens using molecular biological methods, specifically for the Ca Detection method. Phytoplasma spp. 16SrX group with PCR method from plant material. Further details on the accreditation of the Laboratory Complement can be obtained directly on the website of the Czech Accreditation Institute. By the decision of the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (ÚKZÚZ) of June 24, 2014, the Research and Breeding Fruit Institute Holovousy, s.r.o. is entrusted with the performance of professional activities of the reference laboratory for diagnostics of apple proliferation phytoplasma and plum pox virus diagnostics. Decision to entrust the performance of the professional activity of the reference laboratory:Rozhodnuti_RefLab_140624.pdf
The Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (ÚKZÚZ) has extended the mandate of the Research and Breeding Fruit Institute Holovousy, s.r.o. to perform testing of propagating material of hops and fruit species for the presence of harmful organisms, the list and methods of testing are given in Annex 2 (No.: 64262/2017-MZE-17221) of the National Recovery Program for the Recovery of Propagating Material (NOPRM). Decision to authorize the testing of propagating material:
Rozhodnuti_NOPRM_190821.pdf