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Interview with BELIS WP3 Leader, Carlota Vaz Patto – UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
«I see BELIS as a very promising dual use incredible legume, just starting to bloom its multiple diverse flowers to express all of its power / beauty.» – Carlota Vaz Patto Introduce yourself, your professional background and your role within…
KASP marker development for time of flowering and Ascochyta resistance in chickpea
The developed of a pair of NILs (Near Isogeneic Lines) for flowering time allowed to identify new targets associated this trait. In the main figure above, a pair of chickpea NILs is presented, at flowering time with early genotype showing…
Soybean activities within the southeast-European group
Research groups from CREA (Lodi, Italy), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture UNIZG FAZ (Croatia) and Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Novi Sad IFVCNS (Serbia) are the partners within the WP4 Genetic effects and genotyping tools in legumes and…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technology in red clover breeding programmes
An important goal of BELIS is the implementation of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or drone technology in practical breeding programmes. BELIS foresees two approaches with UAV technology in red clover: (1) the development of a model to predict the amount…
A diverse collection of pan-European pea field trials established to boost genomic prediction models
A total of 170 pea genotypes from LAMMC, KWS Group, Agritec, CPSBB, CREA, and IAS-CSIC were sown in the field trials at the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (LAMMC). The collection of pea genotypes has been sown by…
Faba bean: Use of NIRs for quality traits and validation of markers linked to drought, yield and broomrape resistance
The aims of the Spanish partner IFAPA in BELIS are mainly focused on two actions: Optimize calibration models using NIRs (Near infrared spectroscopy) for quality traits such as protein, tannins and vicine-convicine content(Task 3.4). IFAPA has performed the tannin evaluation…
UNL-ITQB and IAS-CSIC collaborative effort on phenotyping of Vicia spp.
UNL-ITQB & IAS-CSIC joint activity! In a collaborative effort, members from the ITQB-UNL team (Portugal) have visit the IAS-CSIC Vicia spp. field trials at Córdoba, Spain, in the past month of April, in a phenotyping marathon of 300 different accessions…
Interview with BELIS Project Coordinator, Bernadette Julier – INRAE
«BELIS is dedicated to enhance genetic progress on legumes through technical novelties as well as improve the conditions to deliver the genetic progress to end-users.» – Bernadette Julier Introduce yourself, your professional background and your role within the BELIS Project….
1st BELIS project Kick-Off Meeting!
The first BELIS project Kick-Off Meeting was held on 17th and 18th October 2023 in Ancenis, France. This meeting was a great opportunity to present the BELIS objectives and concept: enable a shared understanding of the project and its aims,…