News and events

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

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

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

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

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

ONGOING PARTICIPATORY FIELD TRIAL AND GREENHOUSE TESTS ON ORPHAN LEGUMES UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE US TEAM (TUNISIA)
The Team of the University of Sfax is leading the second field trial to test the response of orphan legumes to seed priming treatments. The

Conference: Seed Quality & Germplasm. Adaptation to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses.
The Conference was organized by the Laboratory of Weed Science of the Benaki Phytopathological Institute-BPI (Dr. Dimosthenis Chachalis and by the Laboratory of Plant Breeding

SUSTAINABLE SPORE PRODUCTION
The Microbial Genetics Lab of the BENEFIT-Med Coordinator Team, at UNIPV, successfully produced bacterial spores to be used for biopriming through fermentation of orphan legumes

BENEFIT-Med at the PRIMA DAY in ROME
The Workshop Agriculture and Microbiomes towards the Future New Perspectives between Research and Innovation held in Rome on October 18th, 2024 gathered five PRIMA projects

DIRASA meets BENEFIT-Med
The DIRASA (Définition d’un renouvellement de la gouvernance de la recherche en Tunisie) project that aims to improve the governance of university research in Tunisia