New strategies to improve grain legumes for food and feed (GRAIN LEGUMES)

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This Integrated Project (66 participants) will mobilise and integrate European scientific research on grain legumes by addressing the following objectives; i) to identify optimal parameters for legumes in feed and food 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 objectives the project will integrate an ambitious combination of approaches, including biochemistry, plant & crop physiology, agronomy, plant genomics & breeding, and human nutrition & health studies. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the use of state-of-the-art methodologies including genomics and bioinformatics, together with transcriptomics and metabolomics.