International Legume Society (ILS), a global center for information and exchange on legume research and exploitation, announces the 4th International Legume Society Conference. The event will bring together researchers and stakeholders to exchange knowledge on the cultivation and utilization of crops and forages with the aim of promoting legumes as a sustainable and healthy food and feed.
This year’s conference will be held in Granada, Spain. From 19 to 22 September, 2023. It follows previous knowledge encounters held in Novi Sad (2013), Tróia (2016), and Poznań (2019). Last year, ISL launched a series of public webinars on issues related to hornet cultivation and improvement
Legume experts
The event is organized in collaboration with the University of Granada, with the presence of the Health Science Technology Park, and the Research Institute of CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).
The conference will cover various topics related to pulses cultivation:
- Legume-Based Value Chains: Innovation and Optimization.
- Legume-based cropping systems: performance, ecosystem services and profitability
- Legumes for human and animal nutrition and health
- Legume Biodiversity and Exploitation of Genetic Resources
- Genetics and Omics-Based Legume Crop Improvement
- Legume Breeding: Challenges, Tools, Techniques and Achievements
- Legume Physiology, Biochemistry and Systems Biology
- Beneficial legume plant-microbe interactions
- Understanding and enhancing tolerance of leguminous crops to abiotic stress
- Understanding and enhancing tolerance of leguminous crops to biotic stress
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Science driven socio-economic change
workshop, International Legume Root Disease, A satellite of ILS4 will also launch as a meeting on September 18. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Lethbridge Research and Development Centre; and the Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, will jointly host the workshop.
“We hope that this conference will provide a great opportunity to return to physical meetings as we lived in the pre-Covid-19 era, a vision for innovation and science-driven socio-economic change that is increasingly needed for more sustainable human development. . We hope you will enjoy not only the scientific program but also the Andalusian hospitality and the social activities we will organize, offering you an unforgettable stay in the beautiful city of Granada,” says ILS.
For more information visit the conference website: https://ilsgranada2023.com