20-01-2025
BIOTA: Enhancing Legume Productivity and Quality in Future Climates
Carla Pinheiro, researcher at the MolMicro of Bacterial Pathogens Lab at UCIBIO – NOVA FCT, coordinates the BIOTA research project, titled “Beneficial microbial communities for legume yield and quality challenges: Phaseolus productivity under elevated CO2 and post-flowering heat spell”, which has been granted by AgroServ, an interdisciplinary consortium that gathers 11 recognised research infrastructures and enables research on agroecosystems in a holistic and multi-scale approach.
BIOTA is an ambitious initiative that tackles several agroecology principles and elements, with a focus on the agroecosystem level. It aims to create synergies between primary production (yield and quality), the food system (nutritional quality of seeds), and health and wellbeing (nutraceutical quality of seeds). The project addresses how growing conditions influence the properties of the produced seeds.