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Second National Legumes Congress in Leipzig
In the congress, legumes, such as beans, peas, lupins and clover were discussed. How can research gaps of cultivated legumes such as beans, peas, lupins and clover be closed? How can necessary measures for implementation in practice be tested? These and other...
Legume Generation boosts global legume breeding with database contributions
The Earlham Institute is one of 32 partners from 16 countries who will be contributing information to the Legume Generation project. Sharing information about legume crops to a living database allows breeders to improve legumes including peas, beans, lentils, and...
Legume Generation project overview
Our goal is to boost the breeding of the major food and feed legume crops in Europe to support the EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies by making legume crops more competitive on European farms and in value chains. This will increase crop diversity and enable...
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Second National Legumes Congress in Leipzig
In the congress, legumes, such as beans, peas, lupins and clover were discussed. How can research gaps of cultivated legumes such as beans, peas, lupins and clover be closed? How can necessary measures for implementation in practice be tested? These and other...
Legume Generation webinar: Introduction to the Multilateral System, EASY-SMTA and GLIS/DOI
The Legume Generation Innovation Communities are supported through the organisation of different training sessions and are invited to the first Legume Generation webinar, which will deal with practicalities of seed exchange in regard to legal aspects of the...
Legume Generation: Plant breeders and researchers collaborate for the next generation of legumes to reduce the protein gap in Europe
We need better legume crops to help farmers meet Europe’s demand for plant protein and support a protein transition. Understanding this, fifty scientists and plant breeders participated recently in a meeting held at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop...
