Responsable: Manuel Megías Guijo
Tipo de Proyecto/Ayuda: 6º Programa Marco de la U.E.
Referencia: FOOD-2004-506223
Web: http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/74148_en.html
Fecha de Inicio: 10-02-2004
Fecha de Finalización: 09-02-2008

Empresa/Organismo financiador/es:

• Commission of the European Communities

Socios:

• John Innes Centre (Thomas Henry Noel Ellis)
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Jean Denarie)
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Adam Kondorosi)
• Wageningen University (Ton Bisseling)
• Universitaet Bielefeld (Alfred Puehler)
• Association Européenne de Recherche Sur les Légumineuses à Graines (Anne Schneider)
• The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Mark Stitt)
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Diego Rubiales)
• Consortium National de Ressources en Génomique (Francis Quetier)
• The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (Hilmer Soerensen)
• Genome Research Ltd (Jane Rogers)
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (Guenter Kahl)
• University of Dundee (Andrew Flavell)
• Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy (Gabriella Endre)
• ID Lelystad, The Research Institute of Animal Husbandry (Alfons Jansman)
• Universidad de Córdoba (José Ignacio Cubero)
• Technische Universitaet Munchen (Heiko Schoof)
• Stichting Instituut voor de Veevoeding -De Schothorst- (Jan Fledderus)
• University of Aarhus (Jens Stougaard)
• Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture (Thomas Nemecek)
• Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (Yves Van de Peer)
• Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (Hans Weber)
• Risoe National Laboratory (Erik Steen Jensen)
• Fraunhofer-Fesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Andreas Wäsche)
• Nutreco Aquaculture Research Centre (Wolfgang Koppe)
• Groupe Ecole Supérieure d-Agriculture d-Angers (Alain Bourgeois)
• Plant Research International B.V. (Harro Bouwmeester)
• Universität Hannover (Franziska Krajinski)
• The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (Berit Mattsson)
• Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Wojciech Swiecicki)
• Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de la Junta de Castilla y León (Álvaro Ramos Moreal)
• Central Science Laboratory (Sarah Oehlschlager)
• Associacao do Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (Helena Carvalho)
• Centre d-Etude et de Recherche sur l-Economie et l-Organisation des Productions Animales (Frédéric Pressenda)
• National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Donal O-Sullivan)
• Universidad Pública de Navarra (Cesar Arrese-Igor)
• Confederación Española de Fabricantes de Alimentos Compuestos para Animales (Ricardo Miguelañez)
• Czech University of Agriculture Prague (Zdenek Tousek)
• The University of Reading (Bruce Cottrill)
• Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (Michael Terence Abberton)
• Union Interprofessionnelle des plantes riches en Protéines (Frédéric Muel)
• Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute (Lech Boros)
• Agricultural Research Organization (Daniel M. Joel)
• AgroBioInstitute (Mariana Vlahova)
• Asociación Española de Leguminosas (Celia de la Cuadra)
• University of York (Michael Schultze)
• Murdoch University (aaa)
• Agricultural Research Center (Gyorgy Botond Kiss)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (Sergio Arcioni)
• Universiteit Gent (Nancy Terryn)
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Plant Industry (Karam Singh)

Equipo:

• Investigadores:
  • Carolina Sousa Martín
• Becarios:
  • Carmen Lluch Plá
  • Laura de Lorenzo Barrios
  • Francisco Merchán Ignacio

Resumen del proyecto:

The EU faces the challenge of providing high quality protein for both animal and human consumption. Europe currently imports about 70% of its plant protein yet much of this could be derived from EU grown Grain Legumes. In the human diet Grain Legumes are beneficial and they provide an excellent source of high quality plant protein for animal feed. Furthermore, legume use in arable crop rotations reduces the need for fertiliser application and acts as a break-crop, reducing the need for pest and disease control. Together this is a unique combination of benefit to the environment.

Nevertheless, grain legumes are underused by European farmers mainly because of yield inconsistency. Additionally there has been insufficient research into the effects of legume seed composition on the quality of animal feed. The GRAIN LEGUMES Integrated Project will mobilise and integrate European scientific research on grain legumes to solving these problems, by addressing the following objectives; i) To identify optimal parameters for legumes in feed quality and safety, including GMOs while using legumes to develop healthy and sustainable agriculture, ii) To investigate variation in grain legume seed composition and the factors affecting it. iii) To develop new genetic, genomic, post-genomic and bioinformatic tools to improve and sustain grain legume seed production and quality. To achieve these objectives the project will integrate an ambitious combination of approaches, including biochemistry, plant & crop physiology, agronomy, plant genomics & breeding, and animal nutritional studies. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the use of state-of-the-art methodologies including genomics and bioinformatics, together with transcriptomics and metabolomics.