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COUSIN video – #3: The characterization of Crop Wild Relatives unveiled

by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Dec 1, 2025 | news, Video

“The characterization of Crop Wild Relatives unveiled” is the third video scribing in a series designed and produced by the COUSIN to explore the history, characteristics, and potential of CWRs. Crop wild relatives are valuable for biodiversity and...

COUSIN video – #2: The importance of Crop Wild Reltives

by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Dec 1, 2025 | news, Video

“The importance of Crop Wild Reltives” is the second video scribing in a series designed and produced by the COUSIN to explore the history, characteristics, and potential of CWRs. Crop Wild Relatives are wild species closely related to cultivated crops and...

COUSIN video – #1: The journey of plant domestication

by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Nov 25, 2025 | news, Video

The COUSIN project has designed and produced a series of five video scribing to explore the history, characteristics, and potential of Crop Wild Relatives, the “cousins” of modern crops and a valuable resource for the future of our agriculture. The first in this...
The COUSIN project arrives on the free repository ZENODO

The COUSIN project arrives on the free repository ZENODO

by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Nov 24, 2025 | news, Publications

The COUSIN community is now live on Zenodo. A free, open-access repository created by CERN and OpenAIRE which allows researchers to share and preserve publications, datasets, and other outputs. Creating our COUSIN community there is an important step toward open...
The role of crop wild relatives in Brassica breeding: COUSIN Project highlights at the Smarties.bio Open Day

The role of crop wild relatives in Brassica breeding: COUSIN Project highlights at the Smarties.bio Open Day

by Chiara Degl'Innocenti | Nov 17, 2025 | events, news, Training activities

On the 14th of November 2025, participants of the Smarties.bio seed company Open Day had the valuable opportunity, after visiting the company’s production fields, to closely observe the brassica populations developed within the COUSIN project. The visit was guided by...
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