EU Horizon Europe BELIS “Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability”

Project coordinator: B. Julier (Institut National de Recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, France)
Project leader at IPG-PAS Michał Książkiewicz, Gene Structure and Function Team
Years 2023-2028

Main aims of the project are to increase the competitiveness of the EU and Associated Countries legume breeding industry by improving the methodologies and the governance structures of the breeding sector and to design conditions that allow an efficient delivery of the achieved genetic progress to the breeders and seed industry, and to the other actors (registration offices, extension services, feed and food industry, farmers).

http://www.belisproject.eu/

EU Horizon Europe, LEGUME GENERATION “Boosting innovation in breeding for the next generation of legume crops for Europe”

Coordinator: Lars-Gernot Otto (IPK, Germany)
Project leader at IPG PAS: Karolina Susek, Legume Genomics Team
Years 2023 – 2028.

Investment in innovation that boosts the breeding of legumes in Europe by combining the entrepreneurial focus of breeders with the broad inventiveness of the supporting research base. Six species-oriented breeder-led innovation communities will link practical breeding with the research-base in a transdisciplinary framework. They lead the innovation work and each is focused on the breeding of a single species or species type: soya bean (Glycine max); lupins (Lupinus spp); pea (Pisum sativum); lentil (Lens culinaris); phaseolus bean (Phaseolus spp. e.g. ‘common’ bean); and white and red clover (Trifolium repens and T. pratense). 

https://www.legumegeneration.eu/