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Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz
Baden-Wurttemberg
Kernerplatz 10
70182 Stuttgart
Website: External link to the authority
Selection and Establishment varoatolerant bee colonies VSH/SMR - short SETBie in BW
The varroamite causes enourmous damages, high losses of bee colonies and forces the beekeepers regularily to chemical treatments. Therefore a breeding solution for selection of varroatolerant bee colonies via the feature "Varroa-Sensitive-Hygiene" (VSH = dispelling of varroainfected brood-cells) has to be established. In the project bee colonies will be characterized with an innovative combination of genetical methods. This combination of molecular methods will be complemented with classical examinations and vitality-tests. The breeding material will be tested genetically and this enables the establishment of genitical markers relevant to VSH. With the use of positiv selected bee colonies on mating stations (isolated places for mating of bee-queens) the quality "varroatolerance" shall be spread to the common bee-breeding in the country. Furthermore through the integration of the beekeeper associations and the development of a cost-efficient marker-selection the premiss is created to enable the VSH-selection on an broad basis beyond the project-period to reduce the chemical treatments and the losses of bee colonies.
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)
Landsiedlung BW GmbH
Postfach 102961
70025 Stuttgart
Phone: 07351 - 352 3101
Email: gerhard.kottek@landsiedlung.de
2018
completed
634,551