BENEFIT-Med at the Researchers’ Night … disclosing the secrets of seeds !!!

The European Researchers’ Night in Pavia took place on September 29th, 2023. The UNIPV Team has participated to the event, organized at the Visconti Castle in Pavia, focusing on specific aspects of seed biology, such as seed viability and germination performance, seed quality and seed priming together with the issues of climate change, biodiversity and […]
Seminar on Water, Climate Change, Agriculture, and territorial development

BENEFIT-Med, together with the Ferhat Abbas University – Sétif 1, Algeria and with the support of the General Directorate for Scientific Research and Technological Development (DGRSTDT), has organized the International Seminar “Water, Climate Change, Agriculture and Territorial Development” – 16 sessions on different topics of geography and agronomy. Wonderful location, scientific cross-talking between different disciplines […]
Successful and productive BENEFIT-Med Mid-Term Meeting in Setif (Algeria)!!!

The Mid-Term Meeting has brought together the Partners to exchange the results of the activities so far carried out and to define the joint activities for the second half of the project. The Advisory Board supported the BENEFIT-Med Teams with constructive comments and suggestions.
BENEFIT-Med at the 3rd EPI-CATCH Conference

Meeting renowed international scientists with advanced expertises in plant epigenomics and share with them the challenges of our BENEFIT-Med project. This happened in Sofia (Bulgaria) during 3rd EPI-CATCH Conference organized in the frame of Cost Action CA19125, at the end of May 2023. The BENEFIT-Med Coordinator, Alma Balestrazzi, and the PI of the Greek Partner […]
BENEFIT-Med at ISSS-2023 in Paris

Can you imagine a better stage to disseminate the BENEFIT-Med advances than the Conference of the ‘International Seed Science Society’? The international research community working on seed science and technology was hosted at the Sorbonne Université in Paris (France), from 3 to 7 July 2023 (https://isss2023.sciencesconf.org/). The French PI of BENEFIT-Med, Loїc Rajjou was among […]
Orphan legumes under the lens of UNIPV Team

Bench activities are carried out in parallel with field tests to explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the seed response to priming.
BENEFIT-Med on the move !!! Field trials have started

Pilot sites held by researchers have started in Italy, Tunisia and Algeria. The purpose of this activities is to assess the impact of seed priming on the agronomic performance of orphan legumes. The Priming Kit was developed at UNIPV Partner and made available to the BENEFIT-Med Consortium. CAMPO IN ITALIA: CAMPO IN TUNISIA: CAMPO IN […]
The first BENEFIT-Med newsletter is available !!!

Get in touch with the researchers of the BENEFIT-Med Consortium. It is possible to request a pdf copy at the following email: benefit-med@unipv.it