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In June 2020 Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops (IFVCNS) in Serbia screened soyabean cultivars to diseases.  

On 18th June 2020 National Agricultural and Food Center organized the Field Days event, focused on the organic plant breeding. The event was held in Dvory nad Žitavou, Slovakia. The Minister of agriculture and rural development of the Slovak Republic joined the event.

On 18th June 2020 National Agricultural and Food Center organized the Field Days event, focused on the organic plant breeding. The event was held in Dvory nad Žitavou, Slovakia. The Minister of agriculture and rural development of the Slovak Republic joined the event.

Today we started with the 2nd Annual Online Meeting of the ECOBREED project that will run for two full days. All partners and members of the Scientific Advisory Group were presented. Some plans for the year three were rearranged due to COVID-19.

Dear followers, you can reach videos from the Virtual Field Days in Poland online on the following link: https://dzienpola.podrb.pl/. If you are interested in the late blight resistance, then you must see the Jarosław Plich’s video (Polish Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute), where he talks about the ECOBREED project’s trials. Photo credit: www.dzienpola.podrb.pl

An important outcome of the Horizont 2020 projects is the transfer of knowledge. Potato and wheat trials at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia were interesting also for fourty Agronomy students from the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, who joined guided tour.

There followers, are you working or interested in high-throughput phenotyping for crop improvement and breeding? Then submit a manuscript or follow the special issue that is led by dr. Ankush Prashar from the Newcastle University: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/12725/high-throughput-phenotyping-for-crop-improvement-and-breeding.

On 5th June 2020 project partners held the WP3 Potato online meeting, where the progress of trials in the United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia was checked. On 10th June 2020 project partners held the WP5 Buckwheat online meeting, where the progress of work was monitored. On 11th June 2020 National Agricultural and Food Center […]

The National Agricultural and Food Center (NPPC), in cooperation with IFVC, NARDI, MTA-ATK, SEC, SEL, KIS, RGA, UNEW, UNITUS, BIOMILA, and GEO, evaluate the collection of wheat genetic resources from participating partners (DE, IT, SI, HU, AT, RO, RS, CZ, GR, UK), which are currently popular in organic farming in Europe.

Within ECOBREED project, we performed preliminary trials on wheat genotypes weed competitiveness. Classical and advance phenotyping approaches were used to evaluate and validate the potential to get a fast and more accurate method of screening and selection for crop vigour and competitiveness.

An important outcome of the Horizont 2020 projects is the transfer of knowledge. Today, Agronomy students from the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, were guided by Dr. Aleš Kolmanič, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, through wheat and multiplication trials. In the photo: the canopy cover on wheat trials in Slovenia.

Screening for genetic variation in P-mineralisation buckwheat trail has been set up in Slovenia.  

Soybean trials for the season 2020 were set up at WP 4 leader, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad (IFVCNS), Serbia. Soybean has long been featured as the most versatile agricultural crop in the world. ECOBREED project partners have been identifying the challenges in organic soybean production and aim at providing practical […]

Today, training activities under the ECOBREED project were discussed and rescheduled on Zoom.

Dear farmers, breeders and processors, In AgroNotize, online magazine, you can read an article about the progress of the sustainable and genetic improvement of the durum wheat reached by ECOBREED partner Università degli studi della Tuscia – Viterbo. You can read the article here: https://agronotizie.imagelinenetwork.com/vivaismo-e-sementi/2020/05/20/frumento-duro-miglioramento-genetico-sostenibile-e-innovativo/66908?fbclid=IwAR2UCnLjVvCcWVFUZQqBvQGtQn1cEcNxVL7cVJiyJlbHV-3DrwuxYsoyQ8A.

Heading has started in ECOBREED winter wheat trials at partner Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research (MTA-ATK) in Martonvásár.

Part of the ECOBREED project is also production of new potato varieties. For this purpose, we grafted potato onto black nightshade iu. Solanum nigrum in Poland.

Wireworm management in potatoes focused on entomopathogenic fungi utilization, combined with associated strategies, like attraction or repellence, will help the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia to determine which organic measures could be potentially used in production of potato seeds and breeding in organic systems.

As part of the ECOBREED project the Farmer Participatory winter wheat trial occured. The photo is taken by a drone at Smales Organic Seeds, Thornton Mains near Berwick, England, United Kingdom. Photo credit: Paul Bilsborrow on https://twitter.com/BilsborrowPaul

The Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) is the largest Polish research centre in the multi-disciplinary area of crop improvement, biotechnology, germplasm conservation, and enhancement. IHAR was founded in 1951 for research in breeding and seed production of major field crops. IHAR is a partner of the ECOBREED project and works on potatoes.

The Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) is the largest Polish research centre in the multi-disciplinary area of crop improvement, biotechnology, germplasm conservation, and enhancement. IHAR was founded in 1951 for research in breeding and seed production of major field crops. IHAR is a partner of the ECOBREED project and works on potatoes.

Mr. Dušan Janovíček, the founder and co-director of BIOMILA, is one of the first eco enthusiasts in The Slovac Republic who transformed his philosophy into his work and extended it beyond borders. You can read an interesting interview with him here: https://index.sme.sk/c/22374246/biomila-ako-eurofondy-pomohli-vyrast-specialistovi-na-biospaldu.html

In Slovenia, the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia set the phenotyping trial of potato working collection.

The project partner from Serbia, Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Novi Sad (IFVCNS), and company Global Seed are active in the field of research on cover crops in soybean production. Cover crops are one of the valuable tools that soybean farmers can apply. Cover crops contribute to: – soil quality – physical and chemical […]

We are proudly announcing that three out of twenty most Innovative Breeders in the European Seed Sector in 2019 are ECOBREEED partners. For more information, click here: https://european-seed.com/2020/04/20-most-innovative-breeders-in-the-european-seed-sector-in-2019/?fbclid=IwAR280U8HIwwsm43H8m-lc1OjI1mYxdUb0dtIOfV_–MxMcC6D_4V-YqHYiU. Photo credit goes to European Seed.

Today 63 varieties of potatoes from Poland, Hungary, UK, Holland and Slovenia were planted at Nafferton farm of the Newcastle University, England, as part of ECOBREED project. Photo credit: Paul Bilsborrow on https://twitter.com/BilsborrowPaul

Austrian partner University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, presented permanent microscope slides with 30 wheat root pieces each for determination of arbuscular mycorrhizal root colonization. The photo credit goes to Karin Hage-Ahmed.

Dear ECOBREED followers, you are invited to listen to the radio broadcast dedicated to the situation with plant breeding, new varieties, old and Slovak wheat varieties, climate changes to influence plant growing, organic farming and its benefits. The speaker is ECOBREED project’s partner NPPC from Piešťany. The radio broadcast is available on the following link: […]

The 2nd preliminary trial with soybeans in Greece is in full swing (with irrigation). The photo shows the plant emergence.

In the Messara Valley in Crete, Greece, Greek partner Nikolaos Volakakis (GEO) carries out his wheat phenotyping trials.

At Newcastle University in England, United Kingdom, twenty potato varieties differing in maturity and late blight resistance were being evaluated for AMF colonisation as part of the ECOBREED project. Photo credit: Paul Bilsborrow on https://twitter.com/BilsborrowPaul

The latest ECOBREED peer-reviewed article with title Engineered Durum Wheat Germplasm with Multiple Alien Introgressions: Agronomic and Quality Performance has been just published on MDPI. Follow the link to access the article: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/4/486.

  On 31st March 2020 researchers at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia planted 90 varieties of potatoes. Researchers are going to be able to monitor them despite the closure due to Covid-19.