Happy New Year to my colleagues from the COUSIN consortium and our followers. I am looking forward to the second year of research and innovation with crop wild relatives for a sustainable agriculture with all of you.
#cwr @ec.europa.eu @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social

The PLANTCOM network led by Fabrice Roux @inrae-france.bsky.social met for two days in Toulouse to talk through latest research on the genetics and a mechanistic understanding of plant-plant interactions. I was happy to contribute with a talk on coadaptation of plants in #intercropping.

#LegumES pilot with #chickpea, #grasspea, #pea and white #lupin sown, @COUSIN_project field trial with #rapeseed, #wheat and #barley populations based on crosses with wild relatives sown. And now waiting to see the outcome. @HorizonEU @IICG_URJC

Today we kicked-off the HorizonEU project LegumES in Porto. Over the next 4 years we will investigate the ecosystem service benefits of legumes through 25 pilots, including 3 from Extremadura. Asociación Aprisco will also co-create educational activities between pilots and schools.