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The latest issue of Hutton Highlights, the quarterly review from the James Hutton Institute, is now available. The review is designed to show “how Hutton science is driving the sustainable use of land and natural resources”, with the June edition being published on what would have been James Hutton’s 295th birthday.
An international consortium of scientists and industry professionals has been formed to harness new genomic techniques to address the growing threat that weeds pose to crops. Called the International Weed Genomics Consortium, the group is being led by the USA’s Colorado State University (CSU) and includes the UK’s Rothamsted Research.
Some 28 of France’s leading public and private research organisations involved in plant science, plant breeding and connected technologies have come together to form PlantAlliance, a consortium designed to boost the pace of innovation in genetics, genomics and the breeding of new varieties.
Researchers from ENDURE partners Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and CIRAD are among those contributing to a new study which shows that fungicides are losing their effectiveness against Black Sigatoka (Black Leaf Streak Disease or BLSD), a devastating disease in banana crops.
Agroscope, ENDURE’s Swiss partner, is to lead a work package dedicated to diversified cropping systems as part of the €6 million Horizon 2020 project CROPDIVA. CROPDIVA, whose name is derived from ‘Climate Resilient Orphan croPs for increased DIVersity in Agriculture’, is to examine arable crops that are currently rarely grown compared to wheat and potatoes.
Four years after the launch of the Diverfarming project, its Spanish team has been able to analyse the first results of their trials, encompassing the introduction of a number of innovative diversification measures and sustainable farming practices over the course of three years.
Plant BioProTech returns to France in 2022 for its third edition. The symposium will run from June 28 to July 1, 2022, in Reims in the country’s Grand Est region. The organisers are expecting more than 300 visitors and 60 speakers in an event focused on ‘The path to a more sustainable agriculture’.
In the table below you can find a selection of European projects which you may find interesting. While the majority of these projects are not 'ENDURE-endorsed', we hope that by bringing together more than 50 European projects in one easy to use table we are helping the international Integrated Pest Management community to gain an insight into European agricultural research.
A couple of relatively new Horizon 2020 projects are now up and running and paving the way for more resilient, efficient and sustainable agriculture in Europe. As its name suggests, the MIXED project is exploring different types of mixed agricultural systems, such as agroforestry, in the belief that these approaches offer many benefits. Meanwhile, AGROMIX is bringing together researchers, farmers and policymakers to explore the transition towards resilient farming, efficient land use, and sustainable agricultural value chains in Europe.
BreedingValue has launched the first of its Open Calls for proposals, a mechanism through which it is seeking to transfer funding and knowledge from the project to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the field of berry breeding.
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