More info to come…
ILS Conference 6, Dundee 2029
Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee approved during ILS5 conference, June 2026
- Alfonso Clemente, CSIC, Granada, Spain – alfonso.clemente@eez.csic.es
- Diego Rubiales, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain – diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es
- Eric Bishop von Wettberg, University of Vermont, USA – Eric.Bishop–Von–Wettberg@uvm.edu
- Karen Cichy, Michigan State University, USA – karen.cichy@usda.gov
- Klaudija Carović–Stanko, University of Zagreb, Croatia – kcarovic@agr.hr
- Lars Kamphuis, CCDM, Australia – lars.kamphuis@curtin.edu.au
- Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal – cpatto@itqb.unl.pt
- Marion Prudent, INRAE, France – marion.prudent@inrae.fr
- Millicent Smith, School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, Australia – millicent.smith@uq.edu.au
- Nelson Nazzicari, CREA, Lodi, Italy – nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it
- Pei Xu, Jiliang University, China – peixu@cjlu.edu.cn
- Peter Smykal, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic – petr.smykal@upol.cz
- Pietro Iannetta, The James Hutton Institute, Scotland UK – pete.iannetta@hutton.ac.uk
- Salma Rouichi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco – salma.rouichi@um6p.ma
- Shivali Sharma, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany – shivalipbg@gmail.com
- Stefano Pavan, University of Bari, Italy – stefano.pavan@uniba.it
- Sukhjiwan Kaur, La Trobe University, Australia – sukhjiwan.kaur@latrobe.edu.au
- Tom Warkentin, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada – tom. warkentin@usask.ca
The list of the members of the previous (2023-2026) Scientific Committee is available here.
Executive Committee
President
Maria Carlota Vaz Patto, President, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal –
cpatto@itqb.unl.pt
TREASURER & SECRETARY
Diego Rubiales, Treasurer and Past President, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain – diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es
VICE PRESIDENTS
Tom Warkentin, past president, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada – tom. warkentin@usask.ca
Lars Kamphuis, Vice President, CCDM, Australia – lars.kamphuis@curtin.edu.au
Nelson Nazzicari, Vice President, CREA-ZA, Italy – nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it
The list of the members of the previous (2023-2026) Executive Committee is available here.
Dubrovnik 2026
Call for papers: Legume Science Special Issue on Contributions from ILS5 Conference
Call for Papers for Legume Science Special Issue on Contributions from the 5th International Legume Society Conference
Submission deadline: Thursday, 1 July 2027
This Special Issue will provide participants of the 5th Conference of the International Legume Society, to be held in Dubrovnik from 8 to 12 June 2026, with the opportunity to submit full manuscripts based on research presented at the conference.
The Special Issue maintains the thematic structure of the conference, encompassing the following areas:
- Legume-Based Value Chains
- Legume-based cropping systems
- Biodiversity and beneficial plant-microbe interactions
- Legumes for human and animal nutrition and health
- Emerging technologies in omics-based legume improvement
- Legume breeding
- Legume tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses
- High-throughput legume phenotyping
- Legume crop modelling
Submitted papers will undergo the standard Legume Science peer-review process and, if accepted, will be considered for publication in the Special Issue, with the goal of ensuring rapid and wide dissemination of high-quality research presented at the conference and promoting further advances in the field.
Three articles may be published free of charge for contributions from researchers based in developing regions, provided that at least ten contributions are published in this Special Issue. In addition, Legume Science is published by Wiley, which has established several Transformational Agreements* and is a partner of Research4Life**, allowing Article Publication Charges (APCs) to be covered.
We look forward to receiving your contributions and to continuing the exchange initiated during the conference, that will bring together researchers and stakeholders from across the legume community.
Sincerely,
Guest Editors
Prof. Stefano Pavan
University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Dr. Marion Prudent
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE),Dijon, France
Dr. Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Granada, Spain
*(https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/index.html
Joint AEP VII and IFLRC V conferences, Antalya 2010
Antalya 2010
Before ILS was born, our passion for football was already there! Just a few images remain of the Anyalia 2010 conference, a joint event of the 5th International Food Legumes Research Conference (IFLRC V) and the 7th European Conference on Grain Legumes (AEP VII).
IFLRC and APC 2025 announced!
We are happy to announce the 8th International Food Legume Research Conference (IFLRC) and the 5th Australian Pulse Conference (APC) call for abstract. The double conference will be held in September 2025 in Perth, Australia. Info below and on https://www.iflrc-apc2025.com/
Save the date for the upcoming ICLGG conference (Brisbane, AUS)
We are delighted to inform you that the upcoming 11th International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics (ICLGG) will be held in Brisbane, AUS, 30 Sept- 3 Oct 2024.
This conference will bring together up to 400 leading and emerging national and international researchers, educators and agri-food representatives in the field of legume genetics and genomics.
For more info: iclgg2024.org
How to become a member
Membership is automatic if you attend one of our conference, and it lasts three years. So, for example, if you attended ILS2 in 2016 you became a member until ILS3, in 2019. Then your membership expired and had to be renewed.
You can also become a member without attending our conferences. It’s enough to pay a membership fee of 50€ to the ILS bank account, IBAN ES87 0237 0172 2091 6858 6550. Click here for more details.
If you pay the fee don’t forget to notify our treasurer Diego Rubiales (diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es) and our webmaster Nelson Nazzicari (nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it)