News project wheat biome

Wheat is a staple crop that feeds millions, but challenges such as climate change and soil degradation threaten its future productivity. To address these challenges, Wheatbiome project is investigating the interactions between soil, plant, and human microbiomes, aims to foster the development of sustainable farming practices and create healthier wheat-based food and feed products. This […]

We are excited to announce a major development in the WheatBiome project, with significant progress made in our Work Package 1 activities. Our recent wheat sampling campaign has been successfully completed, marking an important step in our journey to revolutionise sustainable agriculture. Strategic Sampling Across Diverse Agricultural Practices In this campaign, we focused on collecting

The WheatBiome project recently reached a key milestone with the successful completion of its second harvesting and sampling campaign, which took place on June 11th and 12th, 2024. Teams from the Universidade de Vigo, Universidade do Porto, and the Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde (LAQV/REQUIMTE) conducted extensive fieldwork in the wheat-growing region of Zamora,

Since the origin of agriculture, thousands of years ago, soil has been more than just the place where seeds were sown. In addition to supporting plants, the soil was the storage place for water and nutrients that crops needed to grow, although until recently the effect on crops of something invisible that was present in

We are happy to share with you  that our coordinator Rosa Pérez gave an interview on November 9th on @Radio_Voz for the program #VocesDeTuCiudad, where she talked about WHEATBIOME. WHEATBIOME is a research project that aims to improve the resilience and productivity of wheat crops in the face of climate change and biotic stresses. The