16-07-2024
AgroServ recently granted BIOTA (“Beneficial microbial communities for legume yield and quality challenges: Phaseolus productivity under elevated CO2 and post-flowering heat spell”), a research project coordinated by Carla Pinheiro from DCV-UCIBIO. BIOTA is a consortium of several Portuguese partners, including NOVA-FCT, ISA-UL, INIAV, IPPortalegre, and GROUND, that will benefit from access to the state-of-the-art research infrastructures from EMPHASIS and METROFOOD.
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.
This project is funded by the European Union Horizon Europe program, under project AgroServ, GA No. 101058020, positioning BIOTA at the forefront of research into sustainable agriculture and food security in the face of climate change.
