doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... Agronomic 🚜, genetic 🌾 and biotechnological 🧬 strategies to reduce free asparagine in cereals, lowering free acrylamide. Congratulations to @elenabaldoni.bsky.social and colleagues for their work towards safer and sustainable cereals. #ACRYRED #COSTAction #CNR

Elena Baldoni joined the XVI International Gluten Workshop and the @costprogramme.bsky.social ACRYRED Conference in Mondello 🇮🇹🌾 1–4 June 2026, she presented breeding and genetic strategies to develop cereals with low free asparagine 🔬🌱 #ACRYRED #COSTAction

Dario Paolo and Francesca Sparvoli are at the 5th International Legume Society Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia 🇭🇷🌱 Dario talked about functional validation of genes for nutritional improvement 🧬 Dario and Francesca shared news on the genetic characterization of the IBBA bean TILLING population 🫘🔬

Fascination of Plants Day #FOPD @IBBA: 🍀💚🌴🌳🌱🧪

Editing SlMYB60 in tomato did not reproduce the Arabidopsis response to stress. Instead, we found species-specific differences in stomata, cuticle formation, and water loss 💧🔬🍅📄🧪 Translating gene-editing strategies across plant systems is not always straightforward 🌱! doi.org/10.1111/ppl....

🐐By analysing local goat breeds from Ireland and Scandinavia, we found traces of ancient Scandinavian introgression in Irish and Icelandic goats, likely linked to Viking Age migrations ⚓ This unique genetic heritage matters for biodiversity, adaptation, and conservation 🌍 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🍞🎤🍞 Speaker Announcement 🍞🎤🍞 Elena Baldoni - IBBA CNR, Italy @ibbacnr.bsky.social 🚜 “Agronomy and Plant Breeding”: progress on knowledge about free asparagine accumulation in cereals #plantscience #foodsafety @ilsieurope.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social

🍑 New in JXB: we identify regulatory structural variation upstream of NAC1 as a major driver of fruit maturity timing in peach, helping explain ripening diversity and offering new tools for breeding harvest windows. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... (OUP Academic)

New article out 📄🌱🥖! By fermenting bean flour with lactic acid bacteria, one can make legume breads more nutritious, acceptable, and sustainable: better technological performance, higher antioxidant capacity, improved digestibility, and no detectable RFOs! doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

📢 Save the date: registration opens on 27 April for ICDRA 2026, the 8th International Conference on Duckweed Research and Innovation 🌱 Hosted by IBBA-CNR and the University of Naples Federico II, it will take place 28/9–2/10 at the Reggia di Portici 📍 Registration: www.8thicdra.info/registration...

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

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

Stop the Slop

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 A 🧵 1/n

🎉 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.

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

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....

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

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

🚨 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

🐥 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

🪷 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

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...

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

This only happens to you once

Notte europea delle ricercatrici e dei ricercatori a Montelibretti #NER

Let’s roll! #NDR Milano

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

🐖🌱 “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 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

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...

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

Erice Structural Biology Course 2026 (29 May–6 Jun): apply! Train in Cryo-EM, Cryo-ET & ML to study macromolecular assemblies in cells. Hands-on + theory for next-gen structural cell biology. 🔗 erice2026.azuleon.org/application.... #CryoEM #CryoET #MachineLearning #StructuralBiology #CellBiology

🧬🌿 Wolffia e Wolffiella sotto la lente della genomica evolutiva. Uno studio rivela ibridazioni, poliploidia e diversità nascosta nelle lenticchie d’acqua della sezione Alatae. Piccole piante, grandi storie evolutive! #Duckweed #Genomica #Biodiversità #Ricerca doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

🧬🐃 Età al primo parto: chiave per salute e produttività nelle bufale italiane. Lo studio su 50.000 capi indica 34–37 mesi come finestra ideale: più latte, più fertilità, meno giorni “vuoti”. 📊 #Bufale #Zootecnia #LatteDiBufala #Ricerca doi.org/10.3168/jds....

L’Istituto Ramazzini pubblica su Environmental Health un’indagine storica: il glifosato è cancerogeno anche a dosi “sicure”. Serve una revisione urgente delle normative. 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129... #Salute #Ambiente #Scienza

Il glifosato è cancerogeno. Pubblicato su Environmental Health lo studio del team della dottoressa Belpoggi – Istituto Ramazzini: “Ha vinto la nostra determinazione” www.fnob.it/2025/06/10/p... via @Federazione Nazionale degli Ordini dei Biologi

We identified 23 durum wheat varieties resistant to soil-borne viruses on the rise due to climate change, and found the genomic regions linked to resistance to them. Great teamwork by IBBA-CNR, IPSP-CNR & Uni Bari! doi.org/10.1016/j.cp... #GWAS #durumwheat #biodiversity #virusresistance #cropscience

43rd EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 22nd May 2024 at 15.00 CET discussing Breakthroughs in horticultural species with Cristina Zapeda, Giovanna Frugis and Giuseppe Modarelli. EPSO members register bit.ly/4d2GwF4. #PlantScience #SDG #horizoneu

🌱 From UC Davis: Deleting key gliadin genes boosts wheat gluten strength & cuts celiac-triggering epitopes—without harming yield. (Maria Rottersman, Jorge Dubcovsky) ▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/ta...

New paper in #FoodChemistry! We used #GWAS & #metabolomics to explore genetic control of free asparagine in durum wheat—key for reducing toxic acrylamide in baked goods. Thanks to all collaborators & @ACRYRED! 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... #cropscience #biodiversity

Elena Baldoni on Acrylamide-reduction in wheat through understanding the genetic basic of free asparagine accumulation at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social