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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
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
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
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
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
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
