Our partners from Saatzucht Gleisdorf were invited to present the Legume Generation phaseolus bean Innovation Community and the Phaseolus bean field trial in 2025 at a joint Workshop of WIPO, BRIN and AGES in Vienna on 26 August 2025. The workshop dealt with the topic...
On 10 September 2025, Johann Vollmann (BOKU) participated in the BELIS Stakeholder Day held in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event gathered researchers and stakeholders from across Europe to discuss the progress and synergies of legume research initiatives, particularly...
Global Bean Public Meeting | September 2, 2025 What role does policy play in shaping the future of beans and legumes? In this Global Bean Public Meeting, we heard from experts and practitioners working at the crossroads of research, advocacy, and farming. Donal...
The 8th International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC) and the 5th Australian Pulse Conference (APC) were held as a joint meeting in Perth, Western Australia, from 15–19 September 2025. This combined conference brought together researchers, industry...
The European Association for Research on Plant Breeding is hosting its 36th EUCARPIA Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses Section Conference from 1-5 September 2025 in Aberystwyth, Wales. The event will bring together researchers, breeders, and practitioners to...
On 27 and 28 May 2025 the Focus Group "Production of protein crops under climate change" of the EU CAP network held its second meeting in Sevilla (Spain). During this meeting, twenty Focus Group experts discussed how to increase European plant protein self-sufficiency...
This third Legume Generation webinar is designed for breeders and researchers seeking a comprehensive understanding of plant variety rights. The basics of UPOV and CPVO, key legislative frameworks and the concept of breeding rights will be discussed. In addition,...
In the congress, legumes, such as beans, peas, lupins and clover were discussed. How can research gaps of cultivated legumes such as beans, peas, lupins and clover be closed? How can necessary measures for implementation in practice be tested? These and other...
The Earlham Institute is one of 32 partners from 16 countries who will be contributing information to the Legume Generation project. Sharing information about legume crops to a living database allows breeders to improve legumes including peas, beans, lentils, and...
Our goal is to boost the breeding of the major food and feed legume crops in Europe to support the EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies by making legume crops more competitive on European farms and in value chains. This will increase crop diversity and enable...
On 23-24 September, the Soybean Innovation Community (IC) gathered at BOKU University in Tulln, Austria to reflect on the progress and challenges of the project Legume Generation during the first year of soybean field trials. The Soybean Innovation Community is...
LegumeGeneration has held its 2nd internal webinar dedicated to the practical and technical details of using Easy-SMTA and assigning DOIs through GLIS. The invited FAO expert Marco Marsella has provided an overview of options available for SMTA generation and...
The Legume Generation Innovation Communities are supported through the organisation of different training sessions and are invited to the first Legume Generation webinar, which will deal with practicalities of seed exchange in regard to legal aspects of the...
We need better legume crops to help farmers meet Europe’s demand for plant protein and support a protein transition. Understanding this, fifty scientists and plant breeders participated recently in a meeting held at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop...
