A principal investigator for the scientific field of biotechnical sciences and the head of the Centre, Prof. Dr. Dragana Miladinović, is this year’s winner of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Scientific Excellence Award for the field of biotechnology and agriculture, sub-field of…
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…
The Climate Crops Centre hosted colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Prof. Dr. Vidrih Matej, Prof. Dr. Stanislav Trdan, and Mr. Alexander Bobnar. This gathering took place as part of the bilateral cooperation project between the Republic of…
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…
