Four-photo collage from the COST Action ACRYRED Training School in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Top left: view of the ancient Roman theatre ruins under a blue sky. Top right: large group photo of participants standing on indoor steps. Bottom left and centre-right: Elena Baldoni presenting slides titled “Genetic Approaches and Breeding for Low-Asparagine Varieties” and an acknowledgements slide. Bottom right: side view of Elena speaking during the presentation.

In Plovdiv, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, our Elena Baldoni joined the COST Action ACRYRED Training School 📚 (15–17 April 2026) as a Trainer, presenting breeding and genetic strategies to develop wheat varieties with low free asparagine in grain 🌾, and sharing results from IBBA-CNR in this area 🔬 #ACRYRED #COSTAction

Miglioramento genetico dei legumi: qualità, resilienza e sostenibilità nella transizione agro-ambientale legumi rivestono un ruolo cruciale nei sistemi agroalimentari: costituiscono una fonte primaria di proteine per l’alimentazione umana, contribuiscono all’apporto di fibre e micronutrienti e sono strat...

Legumes, redesigned: breeding for quality, resilience, and sustainability to power the next generation of agriculture! www.georgofili.info/contenuti/mi...

www.cnr.it/it/news/14248

Stop the Slop

Precari Uniti CNR 2.0 on Instagram: "🎯Dal 2025 delle incertezze e delle promesse mancate al 2026 delle scelte che contano. ✍🏻In questo video, i precari del CNR leggono una lettera che la politica e i... 84 likes, 1 comments - ricercatoriimperdibili_2.0 on February 8, 2026: "🎯Dal 2025 delle incertezze e delle promesse mancate al 2026 delle scelte che contano. ✍🏻In questo video, i precari del CNR legg...

Importantissimo www.instagram.com/reels/DUh8-v...

Una borsa a IBBA-Mi www.urp.cnr.it/node/41798

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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Yuri Lee Travel Award

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🎉 Travel grant award! 🧪🌱

Our colleague Yuri Lee has been awarded a travel grant by www.mdpi.com/journal/plants to attend the 8th ICDRA!

📍https://www.8thicdra.info/

Great recognition and a valuable opportunity to share IBBA research on plant stress resilience.

A symbolic picture of the gut, with the left hand side carnivorous diet and the right hand side pescatarian diet.

How diet shapes early colorectal cancer risk 🧪🥩🐟🥦
A randomized trial shows a meat-based diet increases genotoxic and inflammatory CRC biomarkers. α-tocopherol partly attenuates these effects, while a pesco-vegetarian diet shows the most favorable profile doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#CRC #DietAndHealth

A Holstein Heifer with hazelnuts overlayed and a background of bacteria.

Plant-based support for calf health 🌰🐄🦠
A randomized clinical trial shows that hazelnut skin extract reduced the duration of neonatal calf diarrhea and improved antioxidant status in Holstein heifers.
JDS (2026) • Free article
👉 doi.org/10.3168/jds....

Genomic anaysis of buffalo genomes: genomics network in the background, buffalo in front with a DNA molecule in white at the front.

Genomics meets buffalo breeding 🧬🐃
First implementation of single-step genomic evaluation (ssGBLUP) for the Italian Mediterranean Buffalo shows higher accuracy for production and type traits 📈🧀
A key step forward for modern breeding programs.
JDS (2025) • DOI: 10.3168/jds.2025-27102

A cow being milked

Optimizing age at first calving matters 🐃✨
Our new study shows that buffaloes calving at 35–38 months achieve the best balance of milk yield, udder health, fertility, and farm profit 📈💧
Full results in JDS (2025) 🔍
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2025-27467

I agree with most of what you say - I just try to find something visually arresting - with mixed feelings (and variable success).

🚨 Apply now for the 2026 Erice School!
From Structural Biology to Structural Cell Biology with the aid of Machine Learning
📅 May 31–June 9, 2026
⏳ Deadline: Dec 7, 2025
🌐 Info: crystalerice.org/2026

A broiler hen and a broiler hen whose health is boosted

🐥 Boosting broiler health with yeast-derived nucleotides in water!
🧪 Better gut 🧬 Stronger growth 💧 Practical delivery
📈 Early performance gains + tighter junctions
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...
#poultryscience #guthealth #microbiome

Lemna plants flowering and pollinating

🪷 Duckweed hybrids: dead end or evolutionary breakthrough? 🧬
New insights into Lemna’s hidden sexual potential 🌱🌍
👉 Interspecific sterility vs. allotetraploid fertility
📄 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
#duckweed #Lemna #plantscience

An AI generated figure symbolising the sequencing of the pangenome of aubergine.

A great team effort led to this new paper in Nature Communications on the pangenome and pan-phenome of aubergine (or is it eggplant?!) 🍆🧬🌱 Congrats to Stefano Gattolin & colleagues at #UniTo, #CREAGB & more! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlantGenomics

Cd++ tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Per la prima volta in Italia abbiamo raccolto riso sviluppato attraverso le Tea, le nuove tecniche di editing genetico Dopo le devastazioni dello scorso anno nelle risaie Pavese e della vite a Verona, il team dell’Università Statale di Milano ha completato con successo la prima sperimentazione in campo

Riso TEA resistente al brusone. www.wired.it/article/racc...

This only happens to you once

Not easy today hey

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Notte europea delle ricercatrici e dei ricercatori a Montelibretti #NER

Notte della Ricerca a Milano! #NDR

Notte della Ricerca a Milano #NDR

Let’s roll! #NDR Milano

Il 26 settembre torna la notte della ricerca - Istituto di biologia e biotecnologia agraria (IBBA) Il 26 settembre in tutta l’Europa si terranno eventi volti a diffondere la cultura scientifica e la conoscenza delle professioni della ricerca in un contesto informale e stimolante.

IBBA e la Notte della Ricerca ibba.cnr.it/senza-catego... #ERN

Evaluation of Phaseolus vulgaris lec‐ lpa as Alternative Protein Source on Growth Performances, Health Status, Faecal Minerals and Gut Microbiota in Weaned Piglet's Diet Partial replacement of soybean meal with an innovative Phaseolus vulgaris genotype with low lectin and phytic acid content was evaluated in weaned pigs’ diet. Although piglets fed the bean-based diet...

🐖🌱 “Smart bean” (Phaseolus vulgaris) as an alternative to soy in pig feed: improved gut health, less mineral waste, lower environmental impact. Study by IBBA-CNR & DIVAS-Unimi (LEGUPLUS Project). doi.org/10.1002/vms3...
#SustainableAgriculture #CNR

Come trovare fagioli più nutrienti e biosostenibili.

Come nutrire 9 miliardi di persone entro il 2050? I legumi, come il fagiolo 🫘, sono proteici 🌱, sani e amici del suolo 🌏. Con PhasTILL e AGRITECH studiamo nuove varietà più nutrienti e sostenibili per l’agricoltura del futuro.

#NotteDeiRicercatori #ERN #CNR

Poster of the Magicoat and Tolerant projects

Quanta acqua “mangi”? 🌱💧
Il 70% dell’acqua dolce va in agricoltura: 1 mela = 70 litri, 1 kg di grano = 1300 litri.
Alla #NotteDeiRicercatori scopriremo come rendere le colture più efficienti e resilienti con i progetti TOLERANT e MAGICOAT.

#ERN #CNR #AgricolturaSostenibile

Prendeteci in castagna alla Notte Europea di Ricercatori e Ricercatrici: www.cnr.it/it/evento/20... #NotteDeiRicercatori, #ERN 🌰🌰🌰

Cristiana Sbrana sui vantaggi della rotazione delle colture: almanacco.cnr.it/articolo/143...

Chiara Russo e Francesca Sparvoli dopo il premio a Chiara per il suo poster.

Al Congresso SIGA 2025 di Viterbo la nostra Chiara Russo (CNR IBBA) ha vinto un Premio Poster 🎉
Il suo lavoro, nei progetti PhasTILL e PNRR-AGRITECH, apre nuove strade per sviluppare fagioli più nutrienti e resilienti ai cambiamenti climatici 🌱🌍 #SIGA #AGRITECH #PhasTILL