page_title: Edmund Mach Foundation
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund Mach Foundation / Research
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Apple. Used white paper behind apple and above apple and bounced SB-600 at 1/4th power. Esperanto: Ruĝa pomo. Fotografita kun blanka papero kaj malantaŭ kaj super la pomo, lumo nerekta de SB-600 je kvarona povo. Français&#160;: Une pomme rouge. Fond obtenu en plaçant une feuille de papier blanc autour de la pomme. Éclairage par un flash SB-600 au quart de sa puissance. La .lojban.: xunre plise .i punji fe labypapri fi plise ga'u ti'a .ije gusni fe plise fi la syby.xanono jo'u fi'uvo selylil Polski: Czerwone jabłko. Zdjęcie z białym papierem w tle. Русский: Красное яблоко. Для съёмки использовалась белая бумага позади и над яблоком, и фотовспышка SB-600 в 1/4 мощности. Кыргызча: Кызыл алма,Тартуу үчүн ак баракты алманын артына коюуп тарткан фотожарык SB-600 в 1/4 Кубаттуу. Simple English: A Red Apple. White paper is behind the apple.
context_page_description: The Edmund Mach Foundation, formerly the Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige, is an agrarian institution and wine academy located in Trentino in north-east Italy. It was founded in 1874, when the Tyrolean Diet at Innsbruck decided to open an agrarian school and research station at San Michele all’Adige, with the aim of improving agricultural practice in Tyrol. The Institute has been located within the premises of former Augustinian monastery of San Michele then abandoned due to its secularization in 1807. The lombardo-venetian enologist Edmund Mach was the academy's first director and the institute developed a reputation for work in viticulture and enology.
  Its mission today is to provide agricultural education, training and consultancy, and to conduct research and experimentation with the aim of "promoting cultural and socio-economic growth in the agricultural sector and at developing the forestry and agro-alimentary systems, with particular regard for the environment and the safeguard of the territory of the Trentino region". There is also a farm, devoted to grape and apple production, a wine cellar and a distillery.
context_section_description: The institute is home of Italy's most extensive ampelographic collection of grape specimens including both indigenous Italian varieties as well as grapes varieties from around the world. The academy conduct wide scale research into various areas of interest to Italian viticulture and winemaking including cataloging the DNA profile and genomic of grape varieties, studying the analysis of wine aromas and flavors as well the role of phenolic compounds in wine.
  In 2007 Velasco et al. completed a 6.5x draft genome of the Pinot Noir clone ENTAV 115 and uncovered a significant number of genes which they purport to encode disease resistance elements.
  Another major area of research for the Foundation, is the pheno-genetic improvement of apples (their organoleptic qualities: taste-color-shape-crunchiness-preservation, etc.) and apple trees’ architecture (such as output, columnarity, self-cleaning and pest/disease resistance in order to reduce the use of pesticides). All of this obtained by classical plant breeding supported by molecular breeding: DNA sequencing and analysis.
caption: Pheno-genetic improvement of apple
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