BENEFIT-Med LECTURES: INVITED SPEAKER PROF. DIEGO RUBIALES (CSIC-SPAIN) SHARED HIS UPDATED VISION OF RESEARCH ADVANCES IN LEGUME BREEDING FOR DISEASE TRAITS, WITH FOCUS ON NEGLECTED SPECIES
The BENEFIT-Med Consortium attended the seminar titled: “Breeding orphan legumes adapted to Mediterranean rainfed farming systems“, held on June 2nd, 2025, together with many young people, PhD and Master students. A unique opportunity for the BENEFIT-Med people to learn more about orphan legumes.
MINI-SYMPOSIUM “LEARNING WITH SEEDS – BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL & APPLIED SCIENCE”, A TRAINING INITIATIVE OF THE UNIPV-TEAM FOR BACHELOR, MASTER AND PHD STUDENTS
The Mini-Symposium was designed with idea to provide young students and PhD students an “hands-on” opportunity to train in soft skills, communication and dissemination. Each student had the opportunity to present her/his research project, discuss with the participants, enjoy brainstorming in a comfortable environment. Many talks illustrated the ongoing thesis research project focused on the […]
BENEFIT-Med AT THE AAB CONFERENCE “LEGUMES IN SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 3”
The BPI Team has participated to the Conference “Legumes in Science and Practice 3” organized by the Association of Applied Biologists – AAB, held on June 3rd-4th at the University of Reading (U.K.). Dr. Demosthenis Chachalis has presented a talk titled:” Evaluation of seed biopriming in legume crops and cover cropping systems as a tool […]
BUILDING THE MED-HUB DATABASE: THE BENEFIT-MED LEGACY
UNIPV welcomes Fifonsi Fafa-Amegnihe from the INRAE Team coordinated by Loїc Rajjou. She is working with energy and enthusiam to assembling the BENEFIT-Med data provided by the different Partners and finding the smartest way to organise them. Fifonsi was in Pavia for joint meetings and working sessions that were requested to better organise the overall […]
STRENGTHENING THE BENEFIT-MED NETWORK: PhD STUDENTS FROM SFAX TO PAVIA
UNIPV welcomes the PhD students Hamida Barhoumi and Sawsen Hnichir from the University of Sfax. They will spend a two-months stage in Pavia to establish improved protocols to assess the genotoxic stress response in orphan crops, challenged by environmental stresses.
The UFAS1 Team (Algeria) on its way to the field to monitor the germination status of orphan legumes
The monitoring performed by the UFAS1 Team involves assessing the state of germination in the experimental area by recording detailed measurements at each growth stage of the three cultivated species – trigonella, forage pea, and grass pea – 24 days after planting. A soil tester is used to analyze various parameters such as soil moisture, […]
Dissecting the features of orphan legumes seeds: the climate-resilient pre-germinative metabolism
Intensive lab activities ongoing at UNIPV in collaboration with the BENEFIT-Med Consortium. Seeds harvested from field trials are currently being analysed using molecular and physical-chemical approaches as well as multi-spectral imaging to provide evidence of the beneficial impact of seed priming.
BENEFIT-Med meets PolyCIVIS
The PolyCIVIS project (ERASMUS-JMO-2023-NETWORKS) (https://civis.eu/en/) deals with the challenges of the polycrisis, namey the combination of several concurrent major societal crises by actively working at different levels, combining the latest science with overlooked lessons of the past, across disciplinary clusters, territories and languages. The latest edition of the PolyCIVIS newsletter features an interview of the […]
Advances on orphan legumes – new papers published by the BENEFIT-Med researchers
Two papers have been recently published in the frame of BENEFIT-Med, highlighting the added value of seed priming applied to orphan legumes, challenged by environmental stress conditions. The work by Goufa et al. (Appl. Sci. 2025, 15, 1692. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15041692) reports on the efficacy of biopriming and combined hydro/biopriming treatments to enhance plant growth of the […]
Med Hub database in progress
After the release of the web app on INRAE data (https://trial-inrae-france.onrender.com/) at the beginning of the year, a database is created and based on the IDF (Ile-de-France) database center in Paris. The name of the database is “benefit-med-hub”. Data collection and processing is still ongoing to fill the database. Also, an interactive platform linked to […]
