BELIS webinar 4 May 2026
BELIS Webinar “KASP markers linked to key agronomic traits for chickpea breeding”
On 4th May 2026, the Horizon Europe BELIS Project (Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability) organised a Webinar on “KASP markers linked to key agronomic traits for chickpea breeding”.
BELIS – “Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability” is a Horizon Europe Project focusing on 14 legume species, including 7 forage legumes (red clover, white clover, annual clover, alfalfa, sainfoin, bird’s-foot trefoil, and vetches) and 7 grain legumes (pea, faba bean, soybean, white lupin, lentil, chickpea, and common bean).
This webinar, with over 170 persons registered, addressed the use of KASP markers for marker-assisted selection in chickpea breeding, as well as the status of the breeding and seed production in southern Spain, with the intervention of:
- Chickpea breeding and seed production in southern Spain, by Ignacio Solís (Agrovegetal) [slides of the presentation available here]
- KASP markers linked to key agronomic traits for chickpea breeding, by Patricia Castro (UCO-IFAPA), Natalia Gutiérrez (IFAPA) [slides of the presentation available here]
- External contribution: Chickpea genetic improvement in Tunisia: Current status, challenges and prospects, by Mariem Bouhadida – National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia (INRAT) [slides of the presentation available here]
During the session, BELIS Project Coordinator, Bernadette Julier (INRAE) introduced the project, presenting the concept, objectives and partnership, as well as examples about high throughput phenotyping and genotyping, tools for molecular breeding, variety registration and breeding cooperation [slides of the presentation available here].
Claire Barbet-Massin (Terres Inovia) presented the stakeholder network being established within the BELIS project [slides of the presentation available here], highlighting its goals, activities, benefits of joining, and the steps to become a member.
The video of the session is available below.