Climate Crops

Climate Crops

Activities within projects on the plant genome editing topic

Prof. Dr. Dragana Miladinović and Dr. Aleksandra Radanović attended the Fifth Congress “AAB PlantEd: Agricultural Biotechnologies in the Era of Genome Editing” and the meeting within the bilateral project with Turkey titled „Development of CRISPR-mediated resistance to fungal diseases in sunflower—SUNFLOWER-GENOMED (project No. 026 02…

Members of the Centre visiting Austria

Members of the Centre, prof. Dr. Dragana Miladinović, Dr. Ankica Kondić Špika, Dr. Sonja Gvozdenac, participated in the first annual meeting of members of the HelEx project (“HelEx- Use of extremophile Helianthus species to mitigate climate change impact on feedstock…

Climate Crops Centre celebrates new PhD graduates

Climate Crops Centre members, MSc Nemanja Ćuk and MSc Dušan Dunđerski, defended their PhD theses at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture on September 23rd and October 8th, 2024, respectively. Nemanja looked into the ‘Inheritance of resistance to charcoal rot caused by Macrophomina…

Cropinno project workshop in Novi Sad

Workshop ‘Omics in Improvement for Drought Tolerance‘ was organised and hosted by the members of Climate Crops Centre within the Horizon Europe Cropinno project (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-02-01: Stepping up Scientific Excellence and Innovation Capacity for Climate-Resilient Crop Improvement and Production, CROPINNO, Grant…

Participation in USDA-FAS Cochran Fellowship Program

In June 2024, the Climate Crops Centre member, Dr. Sonja Gvozdenac, participated in the USDA-FAS Cochran Fellowship Program on the topic “Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Innovation” at the North Caroline State University’s (NCSU) College of Agricultural and Life…

Golden cup for pioneering sunflower research

Siniša Jocić, Climate Crops member, was awarded with the golden cup at Novosadski sajam for his scientific achievements. As part of the committee’s award ceremony for Best in Agribusiness, several awards were given in different categories. Dr. Jocić won the…

A communication skills training at IAS (CSIC) in Cordoba

From May 14 to May 16, 2024, the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), a research institute of The Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas – CSIC) hosted a comprehensive training workshop focused on enhancing communication skills in the field…

A short-term scientific mission at the Research Centre Jülich

In a significant advancement for agricultural research, members of the Centre, Dr. Boško Dedić and Dr. Aleksandra Radanović have embarked on a short-term scientific mission at the Research Centre Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-2): Plant Science (Forschungszentrum Jülich), as part of the Horizon…