The COUSIN project brings together 26 partners from 13 countries who will work on the use of crop wild relatives, using five flagship crops.

The Department of Genetic Improvement of the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC ) in Córdoba is participating in the project and is leading the work on Pisum and its use in pea breeding.  
“With these exemplary crops we demonstrate that the farm-to-table problem can be overcome by generating a roadmap for the use of related wild species (“cousins”) that allows us to cover the path from identifying wild plants to a market-ready harvest in a five-year project”, explains Diego Rubiales , head of the Plant Breeding for Stress Resistance group at the Department of Plant Genetic Improvement at the IAS-CSIC

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