• Soybean germplasm evaluation: Nutritive grain quality under climate change conditions
• Genotypic selection of peas under climate change
• Innovative strategies for early stress detection and increasing maize tolerance to cold stress
• Legumes as a source of biologically active phytochemicals
• Breeding development of alfalfa and red clover germplasm adapted to climate changes
• Predictive modelling of agronomic traits in maize using modern technologies
• Assessment of quantitative traits in small grain cereals germplasm considering climate change
• The role of genetic specificity, plant growth regulators, and biostimulants in increasing the resistance to abiotic and biotic stress, yield, and quality of sour cherry fruit
• The influence of climate changes on the expression of the most important agronomic, physiological and biochemical traits of sunflower under conditions of different plant density
• Influence of combined abiotic stresses and climatic oscillations on production and quality of seed
• Water, soil and cultivar – fundamental elements of sustainable agriculture in climate change

Full project title

Genotypic selection of peas under climate change

Project acronym

GEGS

Lead researcher

Tihomir Čupić, PhD, Senior Scientific Adviser

Project team members

1. Marijana Tucak, PhD, Senior Scientific Adviser, Agricultural Institute Osijek
2. Goran Krizmanić, PhD, Senior Scientific Associate, Agricultural Institute Osijek
3. Ivica Beraković, PhD, Scientific Associate, Agricultural Institute Osijek
4. Branimir Tokić, MSc, Professional Associate, Agricultural Institute Osijek
5. Sonja Petrović, PhD, Full Professor, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek
6. Aleksandar Simić, PhD, Full Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Project financing source

National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 within the framework of the Program Agreement with the Ministry of Science, Education and Youth

Project budget

31.800,00 EUR

Project summary

At the Agricultural Institute Osijek, pea breeding programs for livestock feeding have been carried out for many years. Previous breeding was based on the creation of pea cultivars for grain, which are sown in the spring. However, due to climate change, pea grain yields fluctuate and are getting lower. Therefore, it is necessary to change the approach to the problem and respond adequately through a change in agricultural technology as one of the forms that we can influence. In order to ensure early flowering of pea plants in optimal conditions at an average daily temperature of 25°C with sufficient amounts of water for pouring grains. Therefore, it is necessary to change the sowing date from spring to autumn. The new principle of agro-technics opens up new challenges in breeding and requires the creation of a new breeding population and elite lines. In order to maintain high yields and grain quality, it is necessary to select materials that, in addition to the above-mentioned characteristics, also have satisfactory resistance to low temperatures and resistance/tolerance to freezing. Creating a very broad breeding population that will have tolerance/resistance to freezing and tolerance to frequent interruptions of the dormancy phase is a priority. For such breeding, it is necessary to carry out selection under controlled conditions with frequent temperature changes and to study the mechanisms of response to freezing. The application of the method of accelerated breeding in combination with the method of one seed enables the application and creation of new tools in breeding.

Project aims

• Develop a new winter pea breeding program for grain
• Strengthen the interaction between basic and applied science and transfer research results from the laboratory to the field