Newsletter

We invite you to read the newsletter of BELIS, an Innovation project supported by the EU Horizon Europe programme, with the ultimate objectives of creating favourable conditions and tools to increase genetic progress in legume breeding, and making this progress available to farmers and other end-users. The 35 partners involved in legume species grown for grain, fodder and services are committed to coordinating their efforts to solve the main problems identified so far, such as the use of genetic resources, the refinement of phenotyping evaluation and the implementation of markers to increase genetic progress, as well as the optimisation of variety registration and recommendations. We are also working on the conditions for cooperation among actors in a current situation where legumes are recognised for the ecosystem services they provide, while the economic returns from breeding and growing these species are poor. The BELIS partners are also committed to disseminating and communicating the results to other actors in Europe and beyond. To this end, BELIS is creating a network that brings together all public and private actors interested in genetic progress in legumes. Participation in this network, which is free of charge, will enable information to be exchanged, cooperation to be promoted, training to be provided and innovations to be developed.

On behalf of all BELIS partners, I hope that our activities and results are of interest to you. We invite you to become part of our community and receive forthcoming news of our project by subscribing to the BELIS Newsletter, and following our social media and website updates.

Bernadette Julier

BELIS Coordinator

Research Director, INRAE URP3F

Lusignan – France