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10 Feb 2025 – World Pulses Day!
Discover how BELIS Project contributes to farming sustainability through legume breeding and innovation BELIS seeks to design conditions that allow an achievement of genetic progress by breeders and its efficient delivery to the seed industry, as well as to other…
BELIS WEBINAR SERIES “BELIS NETWORK. LEGUME BREEDING FOR AGROECOLOGICAL TRANSITION IN EUROPE”
On 23rd January 2025, the Horizon Europe BELIS Project (Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability) will be organising a Webinar on “BELIS Network. Legume breeding for agroecological transition in Europe”. We welcome you to register at the following button: Click…
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…