Members of the Climate Crops Centre participated in a workshop on ‘Application of sensors and image analysis as tools for plant phenotyping’ organised by the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, IAS-CSIC) in Cordoba, Spain (October 25th and 26th, 2023). Dr. María Leire Molinero…
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…
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…
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…
Climate Crops at 4th International Conference on Plant Biology in Belgrade From 6-8 of October, two members of our Centre participated at 4th International Conference on Plant Biology, organized by Serbian Society of Plant Physiology. Dr. Milan Mirosavljević gave invited…
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…
Goran Bekavac, Climate Crops member, was a guest in TV show Otkos (in Serbian) where he discussed the effects of climate change on #maize production and current situation on maize fields. High daily temperatures over 35 affect normal physiological processes…
Climate Crops was present at the 63rd Conference Production and processing of oilseeds at Herceg Novi, Montenegro. This conference was great opportunity to meet science and industry representatives (Dijamant DOO, Sojaprotein, Victoriaoil, Vyncke, Gea Group and others) at the same…
In the period 20-23 June IFVCNS hosted The 20th International Sunflower Conference in collaboration with International Sunflower Association. In the time of Conference, Climate Crops members lectured six presentations, moderated tree sections, one panel and participated in poster section. During the Conference,…
Research associate at the sunflower department, Dr Dragana Rajković, visited John Innes Center, Norwich, UK in the period 13-17. June. The organizers of the training were John Innes Center and the COST action CA18111 PlantEd Genome editing in plants. The…
