How does seed priming impact the “seed-to-seed” cycle? Does it promote the quality of the harvested orphan legume seeds?
The BENEFIT-Med Teams are now finalizing their analyses of the grass pea, forage pea and fenugreek seeds harvested from the Italian field trial. They are using many different tools to dissect seed quality, including metabolomics and ionomics. It seems that each treatment (hydropriming, biopriming, and hybrid priming) is able to trigger significant changes in the […]
Life Cycle Assessment studies provide evidence of the benefits resulting from the BENEFIT-Med agrosystem
Based on data provided by Tunisian partners on the latest field trials conducted, life cycle inventories were established to feed mathematical models and calculate environmental life cycle results. The BLC3 Team took care of this evaluation. Overall, seed priming applied to the orphan legume target accession resulted in genotype- and treatment-specific impact, showing however clear […]
Updates on the BENEFIT-Med orphan legumes … how do they manage drought stress?
The work performed by the BENEFIT-Med Teams aimed at the characterization of the drought-resilience profiles of the six target accessions is closed. For each accession, different drought stress intensities were applied, according to the system developed by Conrado Jr. Duenas at UNIPV (https://doitorg/10.3389/fpls.2024.1344383). The most appropriate drought stress intensity was then used to check the […]
BENEFIT-Med research outputs on biopriming acknowledged by VIDEOMETER
VIDEOMETER (https://videometer.com/https://videometer.com/) is a world leading provider of spectral imaging technology, machine learning and AI software for the analysis of a broad range of products, established in Denmark. The UNIPV Team Member Conrado Jr. Duenas has been working with the Videometer instruments at Aarhus University, hosted by Dr. Fiona Hay to assess the potential of […]
BENEFIT-Med at the International Seminar WACCAD 2026: project achievements and legacy
We had a great time in Constantine (Algeria) where Aziz Benhamrouche and his Team, as well as the Governance of University of Constantine 1 welcomed the BENEFIT-Med Teams from Italy and Tunisia at the International Seminar WACCAD 2026, on February 9th-12th 2026. This was a unique opportunity to present the outputs of the BENEFIT-Med project, […]
The BENEFIT-Med Layman’s report available soon !!!
This simplified summary of the BENEFIT-Med project (topics and outputs) has been designed by Cinzia Calvio (UNIPV Team) for a general public to communicate the key scientific and technological achievements. The challenge, the focus, the goal of the project as addressed as well as the BENEFIT-Med Solution. Turning knowledge into local impact, this is what […]
Joint Workshop of the PRIMA Projects BENEFIT-Med, PROSIT and SIRAM
The projects BENEFIT-Med (https://www.benefit-med.eu/), PROSIT (https://www.prosit-prima.eu/), and SIRAM (https://www.siram-prima.org/) that share the results of the experimental activities carried out in a three-years frame during the Workshop “Root of Resilience: Microbial and Plant Biodiversity in Mediterranean Farming Systems” that will be held at the Aula Golgi – University of Pavia, on October 24th 2025. These projects […]
BENEFIT-Med Project Local Final Meeting at the PRIMA Projects Dissemination and Networking Day (Sfax, Tunisia)
The BENEFIT-Med Project Local Final Meeting – PRIMA Projects Dissemination and Networking Day was organized within the framework of the project BENEFIT-Med at the University of Sfax. This event was held on November 20th, 2025, at the Occidental Hotel in Sfax. The day was dedicated to reviewing the scientific, technical, and socio-economic progress achieved throughout the […]
BENEFIT-Med at GRAINES 2025
The INRAE TEAM attended the Conference of the French Seed Network on 12th-14th November 2025 in Nantes (France) (https://graines2025.colloque.inrae.fr/). The INRAE Team has highlighted the contribution of BENEFIT-Med to the development of sustainable cropping systems by demonstrating the effectiveness of microbial seed biostimulation in enhancing stress resilience and yield stability in climate-sensitive Mediterranean environments.
The legacy of the BENEFIT-Med project
The BENEFIT-Med Final Meeting was held in Pavia on 22nd-23rd October 2025. The successful outputs of the project, validated through dedicated Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), represent the starting point of the novel projects PROSPER (https://www.prosper-horizon.eu/) and FORECAST (https://www.forecast-project.eu/) led by UNIPV. The legacy of BENEFIT-Med is now in the hands of an extended network of multidisciplinary actors willing […]