About the project

Phytophthora, Fusarium and Ralstonia are three major plant pathogens affecting a large number of crops ranging from vegetables, fruits, spices, plantation crops, ornamentals, pulses and oil seeds. The Outreach Project on Phytophthora, Fusarium and Ralstonia of Horticultural and Field Crops (PhytoFuRa)is a flagship program of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) comprising of researchers from 17 participating centres with Indian Institute of Spices Research as the lead centre. The project was officially launched at New Delhion 23 Feb 2009 by the then Deputy Director General (Horticulture), Dr. HP Singh. The crops covered are apple, banana, black pepper, brinjal, chickpea, chilli, citrus, coconut, cocoa, colocasia, ginger, guava,oil seeds, pigeon pea, potato, safflower and tomato. Dr. M.Anandaraj, Director, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode has been identified to coordinate this network project.PhytoFuRa wasoriginally sanctioned in XI Plan with a total outlay of Rs.19.65 crores.Considering the good progress made, ICAR has given its consent to continue this project during XII Plan with an additional grant of Rs.14.45 crores.

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Fifth Annual Review Meeting of PHYTOFURA was held at ICAR-IISR, Kozhikode on 18 March 2015

The fifth Annual Review Meeting of the Outreach project on Phytophthora, Fusarium and Ralstonia diseases of Horticultural and Field crops – PhytoFuRa Project was held on 18 March 2015 at ICAR-IISR, Kozhikode. The meeting was inaugurated by Dr. Y.R. Sarma, Former Director, ICAR-IISR & FAO Consultant and was presided over by Dr. B. P. Singh, Director, ICAR-CPRI, Shimla. Dr. S. Devasahayam, Head, Division of Crop Protection welcomed the gathering and Dr. M. Anandaraj, National Coordinator presented the salient achievements made during 2014-15. ....More

Events

23 Feb 2009

PhytoFuRa project was officially launched at New Delhi by Dr HP Singh, Deputy Director General (Horticulture),in the presence of Dr VA Pathasarathy, Director, IISR and Dr. M. Anandaraj Project Coordinator, Spices. The meeting was attended by Dr Umesh Srivastava, Dr. T.P Rajendran and Dr. S.Rajan Assistant Director generals of ICAR, New Delhi and about 25 Principal Investigators from the cooperating centres.

16 March,2010

First Annual Review Meeting of Out Reach Programme  on “Phytophthora, Fusarium &  Ralstonia Diseases  of  Horticultural and Field crops” was conducted at   NASC Complex, New Delhi.

08-17 February 2011

Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) Calicut, hosted a ten days training programme on Application of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Phytophthora/Ralstonia Research from February 08-17 at the Institute campus.

17-18 February 2011

Second Annual Review Meeting of Out Reach Programme  on “Phytophthora, Fusarium &  Ralstonia Diseases  of  Horticultural and Field crops” was conducted at  Indian Institute of Spices Reserch,Calicut.

24 September 2011

Dr. HP Singh, DDG (Horticulture), ICAR, New Delhi launched the Phytophthora Genome Database developed by IISR, Calicut

3-4 March 2012

The Third Annual review meeting of PHYTOFURA was held at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru

9-11 April 2013

The Fourth Annual review meeting of PHYTOFURA was held at CPRI Shimla.

8 March 2015

The Fifth Annual review meeting of PHYTOFURA was held at ICAR-IISR, Kozhikode.

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1. The Third review meeting of PHYTOFURA was held at IIHR, Bengaluru

The Third Annual review meeting of the outreach project on Pytophthora, Fusarium and Ralstonia diseases of horticultural and field crops (PHYTOFURA) along with that of ALCOCERA was held at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru on 3-4th March 2011 under the chairman ship of Dr H.P. Singh, Deputy Director General (Horticulture, ICAR , New Delhi. Dr. A. M. Mukhopadhyay, Former Vice Chancellor, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat and Dr. J. Kumar, Dean & Registrar, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar attended the meeting as experts for review. Many scientists from all the involving centers participated in the review meeting. ....More

2. Phytophthora genome decoded.

Dr. HP Singh launched the Phytophthora Genome Database developed by IISR. The genome of Phytophthora, the fungus-like organism that causes the dreaded foot rot disease of black pepper, has been completely sequenced for the first time by a group of scientists of Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut. “The Phytophthora Genome database will surely help researchers in understanding how the pathogen interacts with the host and how the mechanism will change once the plant is affected by the pathogen, etc.,” said Dr. HP Singh. ....More

3. Short-Term Training on Application of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Phytophthora/Ralstonia Research

Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) Calicut, hosted a ten days training programme on Application of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Phytophthora/Ralstonia Research from February 08-17 at the Institute campus. The programme was inaugurated by Dr. V. A Parthasarathy Director, Indian Institute of Spices Research Calicut. The training was exclusively for investigators and research fellows working in PhytoFuRa project. It was conducted in two phases: Phase 1 – Basics of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics (six days) and Phase 2 – Genomics and Proteomics (three days)....More

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