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BELIS Project featured at XII Symposium on Innovations in Field and Vegetable Crop Production
Representatives from the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, participated in the XII Symposium with international participation «Innovations in Field and Vegetable Crop Production», held in Belgrade (Serbia) on 23 and 24 October 2025 under the auspices of…
Catch up on the BELIS project in action!
The national Serbian TV show «Nauka privredi (Science to Business)» recently dedicated an entire 20-minute episode to BELIS, airing in October on RTS. Four speakers from the IFVCNS team share insights into how BELIS is transforming legume breeding through research,…
Evaluation of pea resistance to Aphanomyces euteiches under controlled conditions
Researchers at INRAE (IGEPP, France) are conducting a controlled environment study to assess pea resistance to Aphanomyces euteiches, a pathogen causing devastating root rot in legume crops. The team is evaluating a MAGIC (Multiparent Advanced Generation Intercross) population comprising 1,800…
An extensive Delphi study for demand-led breeding
Over the past five months, a team from the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany (FH-SWF) has conducted an extensive Delphi study with 20 legume breeders involved in the BELIS project. The aim of the study was to…
BELIS at The Soil Re-Union: Building connections for sustainable agriculture
The BELIS project was represented at the 4th International and 16th National Congress of the Serbian Society of Soil Science, held under the theme «The Soil Re-Union: Science for Healthy Soils». Marjana Vasiljević from the Institute of Field and Vegetable…
Fifth International Legume Society Conference Announced for Dubrovnik
The Fifth International Legume Society Conference will take place from 8 to 12 June 2026, in the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Following the successful conferences in Novi Sad (2013), Tróia (2016), Poznań (2019), and Granada (2023), this conference will be…
BELIS Advances Legume Breeding Tools at 2nd Annual Meeting in Serbia
The BELIS project held its second annual meeting from 9 to 11 September at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops (IFVC) in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event brought together 65 participants from project teams to discuss achievements, plan upcoming…
Advancing soybean breeding: Genomic insights and environmental adaptation
Soybean is a valuable crop worldwide but breeding programmes aiming to improve productivity still face challenges. To address this, we combined genomic prediction (in essence, asking “we know your DNA, but what do you look like?”)- with the identification of…
Development of young researchers at BELIS
Ha Trang PHUNG has joined INRAE Agroécologie in Dijon as a bioinformatics research engineer to work on Task 4.5 – Toolkit for legume breeding and research. Ha Trang has studied environmental Sciences at Hanoi University of Science and has obtained an Engineering Degree…