News and Events
Development of Advanced Pea Breeding Lines with Improved Resistance to Ascochyta Blight
On March 25th, the scientific journal Agriculture published an article written by Manuel Alejandro Jiménez-Vaquero, María José Cobos, Carmen María Ruiz-Pastor, and Diego Rubiales entitled "Development of Advanced Pea Breeding Lines with Improved Resistance to...
Building crop resilience using prickly lettuce, a wild relative of lettuce
Environmental pressures and limited natural resources are forcing agriculture to produce higher yields while using less water and fertilizer. Although lettuce has been extensively bred for taste, texture, and yield, this process has left it vulnerable to nutrient...
Resowing at San Martín Primary School
The two educational gardens at San Martín Primary School, where crops, one containing cereals (wheat, oats and barley), pulses (lupin, peas and broad beans) and lettuce, and the other containing brassicas (rapeseed, cauliflower, broccoli, romanesco and cabbages) are...
FOAG and UNIL publish two studies on the evaluation Swiss in situ programme for CWR of fodder plants.
A program dedicated to meadows conservation and the wild relatives of fodder plants is running and gather more than 1300 surfaces in the whole country. Farmers are actively supported to conserve these surfaces. A survey to evaluate the farmer's motivation to...
Study Day in collaboration with the Southwest Section of the Accademia dei Georgofili (Florence)
On February 25, 2025, the COUSIN project was presented by the University of Catania (UNICT) during a study day dedicated to the management and use of plant and microbial germplasm collections, hosted by the Accademia dei Georgofili in Florence. The conference...
CUADERNO DE CAMPO CEIP SAN MARTÍN Garganta la Olla 2025-2026
Cuaderno de campo is an educational field notebook created by Aprisco to directly connect agroecology research in northern Extremadura with local educational community. The notebook emerges from a collaboration between Aprisco and the San Martín preschool and...
In Florence, a study day on conservation and use of plant genetic resources with a focus on Crop Wild Relatives
On February 25, Florence will host a study day entitled "Management and use of plant germplasm and microbial collections for the protection and economic enhancement of agrobiodiversity". Organized by the Southeast and Southwest sections of the Accademia dei...
D3.1 – SOPs for data acquisition and storage. Establishment of procedures for pheno-, geno- and chemotyping and metadata
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Enhancing nutraceutical traits in Brassica oleracea L. for functional food production
On Jenuary 23th, the scientific journal CABI Agriculture and Bioscience published an article written by Gresheen Garcia, Donata Arena, Hajer Ben Ammar, Victor Manuel Rodriguez, Pablo Velasco, and Ferdinando Branca entitled "Enhancing nutraceutical traits...
Excursion to the Egadi Islands for the conservation of Brassica macrocarpa
Despite the bad weather that was raging in the rest of Sicily, the beautiful island of Favignana and its inhabitants welcomed with open arms the staff of Rete Semi Rurali, University of Catania, and Juan Carlos University of Madrid, all partners in the COUSIN project,...
Identification of genomic regions associated with partialresistance to Aphanomyces root rot in pea
On December 1th, the scientific journal The plant genome (volume 18, issue 4) published an article written by Sara Rodriguez-Mena, Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, Susana Trindade Leitão, Diego Rubiales, and Mario González entitled “Identification of...
Crop Wild Relatives and the COUSIN project presented on inRete!
The Italian partner Rete Semi Rurali ETS presented the COUSIN project on 𝐢𝐧𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐞!, its monthly series of live events designed to raise awareness of RSR, its projects, members, and the organizations it collaborates with in Italy and Europe. In the first episode of the...
The role of CWRs in developing more resilient and sustainable agricultural systems in an online meeting with stakeholders
On 12 December 2025, an online stakeholder meeting was organized by the partner BETA Technological Center organized within the framework of the project COUSIN to discuss the role of crop wild relatives (CWR) in the development of more resilient and sustainable...