INVITE

🏃♂️ The project has entered the home stretch - just 6 months are left before the end of the project and the Final Conference in Brussels on 10 December! 👥 At the last INVITE Annual Meeting in Florence earlier this month, we spoke with the project coordinator and partners to discuss the key results of their activities and their practical applications. ✅ The INVITE project coordinator francois laurens, INRAE shared the main outcomes of the project and provided insights on the remaining dissemination activities: https://lnkd.in/gibmbBnj 🌐 For the latest updates, visit our website: h2020-invite.eu #varietytesting #varietyregistration #phenotyping #genotyping #modelling #envirotyping #EUGreenDeal #sustainableagriculture #EUFarm2Fork #plantbreeding

🤔 Why is DUS testing in perennial ryegrass so tedious and what can be done to simplify it? 🎙️Dan Milbourne, Teagasc, explained the challenges of DUS testing in perennial ryegrass and shared the insights into the image analysis tools and marker based approaches that have been developed in the project to facilitate the DUS testing. 🎥 https://lnkd.in/ec5gieBB #DUS #perennialryegrass

🤔 How can bioindicators help in plant variety testing? 🎙️Maria Jose Aranzana, IRTA-Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics - CRAG, explained which bioindicators and epigenetic markers INVITE has worked on in apple🍎, wheat🌾 and tomato🍅. 🎥https://lnkd.in/edNSjsXN #DUS #VCU #seedmarketing

🌱During the #Euroseeds2024 Congress in Copenhagen, the INVITE Project Coordinator francois laurens sat down for a talk with Seed World Europe on the future of variety testing in Europe. 🎥Check it out👇 EU Science, Research and Innovation

🌱 Marcel Bruins from Seed World Europe chats with Cecile Collonier (CPVO) on the game-changing INVITE project. As it wraps up, discover how it’s set to benefit the seed sector! #SeedInnovation #Agriculture #INVITEProject https://lnkd.in/d97dJ5TW

🍎 El Sergio Alejandro Urioste Daza ha organitzat una sessió per conèixer les #preferències del personal #agricultor enfront de les noves varietats de pomes. 👩🌾 En el marc del projecte INVITE, el Sergio ha conduït una jornada a Mollerussa on els i les assistents han hagut de participar en un experiment d’#elecció i un hipotètic joc de #loteria. ℹ️ L’objectiu de la sessió ha estat la recol·lecció d’informació demogràfica i de les darreres campanyes de producció de #poma. ____ 🍎 Sergio Alejandro Urioste Daza has organized a session to find out the #preferences of #farmers in relation to the new varieties of apples. 👩🌾 As part of the INVITE project, Sergio has led a day in Mollerussa where the attendees have had to participate in a #choiceexperiment and a hypothetical #lottery game. ℹ️ The objective of the session has been the collection of demographic information and the latest #apple production campaigns.

With just over a month to go until Part 1 of our Innovations towards Sustainability in Plant Variety Testing conference, we are delighted to share this programme with you! We are co-hosting this event with our sister project INVITE Learn more on the website: https://lnkd.in/djfqhe7

Our final conference is a collaboration with our sister project INVITE, and will take place over two days. Register for both days with the links below! Part 1: Innovations in Wheat - Nov 28, 2024 https://buff.ly/4deEj8D Part 2: Innovations in Other Crops - Dec 10, 2024 https://lnkd.in/emaK8bZu

📢#EventAlert Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium III 🗓️30-31 of October 2024 📌Wageningen University & Research University, the Netherlands. 🌱This event will gather global experts to discuss cutting-edge innovations in plant breeding, environmental characterization and agricultural management. 💬INVITE scientists will present key project results, including talks on statistical approaches and discussions on environmental characterisation and a poster session. INVITE's Australian sister project INVITA will also be featured! 🤩This event is a fantastic opportunity for INVITE to share its results in optimising plant variety testing to adapt to diverse environmental conditions towards sustainability agriculture. 👉 Learn more about the symposium: https://lnkd.in/efW_9pUt #GxExM #PlantBreeding #Sustainability #Agriculture

🤩Today is the #WorldFoodDay! 👆Food is the third most basic human need after air and water. Everyone, everywhere should have the right to diverse, nutritious, affordable and safe foods. 🔬 INVITE is contributing to food security by fostering the introduction of new varieties better adapted to varying biotic and abiotic conditions and to more sustainable crop management practices. ℹ️ Learn more about the project and register for the Final Conference taking place on 10 December in Brussels: https://lnkd.in/emaK8bZu #foodsecurity #seedmarketing #varietytesting #varietyregistration #PRM #DUS #VCU FAO