Within the Prisma program of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 97 projects were approved for financing, out of 660 applied for, and two will be implemented within the Climate Crops Centre's activities in the next 3 years. The first project is "Nutrition-sensitive breeding of Cucurbita plants [...]
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 field and vegetable crops. In the Provincial [...]
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 Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences on November [...]
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 Serbia and the Republic of Slovenia, "Invasive plants as [...]
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 Ruiz and her [...]
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 quality and biodiversity services. Climate change has severely [...]
Kick-off meeting of the consortium of the project "Carinata and camelina boasting the sustainable diversification in agricultural production systems - CARINA" was held last month in Bologna, Italy. CARINA is financed under the Horizon Europe program (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-01-04). Two oilseed crops Brassica carinata and Camelina sativa are used in the [...]
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 years, MIDAS will bring together 25 partners from research [...]
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 Špika is coordinator of the project activities for [...]
At CROPINNO kick-off meeting all participants had opportunity to meet each others and discuss about following activities and working packages. During the meeting participants exchange new ideas and transfer previously obtained experience in participating in Horizon projects.