by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Sep 20, 2025 | news
Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) carry genetic traits for resilience, productivity, and nutrition and could play a key role in the agroecological transition of European food systems. In its first 18 months, the COUSIN project is making strong progress towards understanding...
by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Jul 30, 2025 | news
Southern Italy, particularly Sicily, harbors significant agrobiodiversity within Brassica oleracea L. crops (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, etc.). This diversity stems in part from the widespread presence of wild Brassica oleracea complex species...
by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Jul 26, 2025 | news
IAS-CSIC is running a long-term pea pre-breeding program which started with a major focus on developing cultivars adapted to Mediterranean rain fed farming conditions. Therefore, the first priority was the resistance to broomrape (Orobanche crenata), which was not...
by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Jul 26, 2025 | news
Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) is the fourth most widely grown cereal in the world used mainly for animal feed and the production of malt for beer and whisky production, though it is also a staple food crop for human consumption in some parts of the world....
by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Jul 22, 2025 | events, news
In June 2025, in Perugia (Italy) the COUSIN project, along with his sister project (PROWILD), was presented at the 15th National Conference on Biodiversity and the 2nd International Conference on Mediterranean Biodiversity. The event was organized by the Department of...
