Climate Crops

Climate Crops

Climate Crops Centre celebrates a new PhD graduate

A team member of Climate Crops Centre, MSc Jelena Jockovic, defended her PhD thesis titled “Micromorphological and anatomical characterization of plant organs of wild sunflower species as a potential gene pool for breeding cultivated sunflower (Helianthus spp., Asteraceae)” at the University of…

Navigating new European horizons: our institution’s journey began

Global collaboration of experts in ecology, economics, genetics, and biotechnology has formed an innovative consortium focused on sunflower research. The HelEx (Helianthus Extremophiles) project, comprising 18 partners, aims to develop sunflower varieties resilient to high temperatures and drought while preserving production…

Horizon Europe project MIDAS is launched

We are happy to announce the start of a Horizon Europe project: „Utilization of Marginal lands for growing sustainable industrial crops and developing innovative bio-based products – MIDAS” in which Climate Crops researchers will actively contribute. In the next 4…

AgroServ Kick off meeting

Three members from our Centre (dr Dragana Miladinović, dr Ankica Kondić Špika and dr Dragana Trkulja) participated at Kick off meeting of another HEU project – AgroServ- Integrated SERvices supporting a sustainable AGROecological transition. One of the members, dr Ankica Kondić…

Severe drought influences crop production

This summer, we are indeed witnessing unfavorable effects of climate change, mostly in terms of severe drought on crop production. Selection of sunflower genotypes, as well as other main crops in Serbia, that are able to withstand these adverse high…