Michael | Abberton | m.abberton@cgiar.org | | Vigna species, Sphenostylis stenocarpa (african yam bean; yam pea), Bambara groundnut, climate change, genetic resources | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture | Genetic Resources Centre | Ibadan | Nigeria |
Shiv Kumar | Agrawal | sk.agrawal@cgiar.org | | Lens culinaris (lentil), Lathyrus, Breeding, Biofortification | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Area (ICARDA) | Biodiversity and Crop Improvement Program | Rabat | Morocco |
Paolo | Annicchiarico | paolo.annicchiarico@crea.gov.it | site | breeding for intercropping, crop quality, drought tolerance, farmer-participatory breeding, forage legumes, genetic resources, genomic selection, Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Lupinus albus (white lupin), Pisum sativum (pea) | Council of Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) | Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture | Lodi | Italy |
Isaac K | Asante | asanteisaack57@gmail.com | | Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), mutation breeding, amino acid profile, GWAS | University of Ghana | Department of Plant and Environmental Biology | Accra | Ghana |
Said | Barrijal | barrijal@yahoo.fr | | Legume-Rhizobium interaction, drought tolerance, sallinity tolerance, molecular characterization of rhizobium, Diversity | Faculty of Science and Techniques of Tangier, University Abdelmalek Essaadi, Morocco | Department of Biology | Tangier | Morocco |
Dengjin | Bing | dengjin.bing@canada.ca | | Field pea, Pisum sativum (pea), breeding, genetics | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Lacombe | Canada |
Sławomir | Borek | borek@amu.edu.pl | site | Autophagy, Lipid metabolism, Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus mutabilis, Pexophagy, Plant cell biology, Plant molecular biology, Proteomics, Seed development and germination, Transcriptomics | Adam Mickiwicz University Poznań | Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology | Poznań | Poland |
Creola | Brezeanu | creola.brezeanu@yahoo.com | site | Grain legumes, genetic resources, phenotyping, intercropping, (pre)breeding | Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacău, Romania | Vegetable Research and Development Station, Bacău, Romania | Bacau | România |
Bianca | Büttner | bianca.buettner@lfl.bayern.de | | Molecular marker, genetic resources, Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), flowering time, validation of crosses, Lupinus albus (white lupin), anthracnose | Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture (LfL) | Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding (IPZ) | Freising | Germany |
Valentina | Caracuta | v.caracuta@gmail.com | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), wild progenitor, domestication, archaeobotany | University of Montpellier | Institute of Evolution Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM) | Montpellier | France |
Klaudija | Carović-Stanko | kcarovic@agr.hr | site | Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), molecular markers, drought tolerance, plant genetic resources conservation, medicinal and aromatic plants | University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture | Department for Seed Science and Technology | Zagreb | Croatia |
Hasnae | Choukri | hasnae.choukri0@gmail.com | | Lens culinaris (lentil), Malnutrition, Hidden hunger, Biofortification, Micronutrients | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat, Morocco | Plant Physiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Mohammed V university, Rabat, Morocco | Rabat | Morocco |
Salon | Christophe | christophe.salon@inrae.fr | site | Grain legumes, phenotyping, fluxomics, plant and microbe interactions | INRAE | UMR Agroécologie | Dijon | France |
Gerda | Cnops | gerda.cnops@ilvo.vlaanderen.be | | Trifolium pratense (red clover), Glycine max (Edamame), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Lens culinaris (lentil), variety testing, quality, (flower) architecture | Flanders Research Institute for Fisheries and Food (ILVO)Food | Plant Sciences Unit | Melle | Belgium |
Branko | Cupina | cupinab@polj.uns.ac.rs | | Legume agronomy, legume cover crops, intercropping | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture | Department of Field and Vegetable Crops | Novi Sad | Serbia |
Katarzyna | Czepiel | kcze@igr.poznan.pl | | Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), Lupinus luteus (yellow lupin), alkaloids biosynthesis, regulation of transcription, genes expression, Real-Time PCR, genomic | Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences | Department of Genomics | Poznan | Poland |
Claire | Domoney | claire.domoney@jic.ac.uk | site | Pisum sativum (pea), seed quality, seed protein and amino acids, starch & oligosaccharides, germplasm variation, natural & induced mutants | John Innes Centre | Metabolic Biology | Norwich | GB |
Agnieszka | Faligowska | agnieszka.faligowska@up.poznan.pl | | Legume, soil tillage systems, irrigation, forecrop, nitrogen fertilization, sowing value | Poznań University of Life Sciences | Department of Agronomy | Poznań | Poland |
Ferawati | Ferawati | ferawati.ferawati@lnu.se | site | pulses, processing, extrusion, aroma, meat analog, new product development | Linnaeus University | Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences | Kalmar | Sweden |
Abe | Gerrano | agerrano@arc.agric.za | | Genetic diversity in crop and crop wild relatives, breeding for yield, crop nutritional quality, stress breeding for drought and heat tolerance, farmer-participatory breeding, grain and vegetable legumes breeding, genetic resources management, genomic selection, breeding for disease and pest resistance in legume. | Agricultural Research Council | Vegetable and ornamental Plants, Departmtn of plant Breeding and Genetics | Pretoria | South Africa |
Åsa | Grimberg | asa.grimberg@slu.se | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), plant breeding, genomics, genetic diversity, seed quality, transcriptional regulation, seed storage compounds, seed carbon allocation | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Department of Plant Breeding | Alnarp | SE |
Corre-Hellou | Guénaëlle | g.hellou@groupe-esa.com | | intercropping, nitrogen, weeds, cropping system, ecosystem services | ESA | USC LEVA, ESA, INRAE | Angers | France |
Florian | Haase | florian.haase@julius-kuehn.de | | Lupinus spp (lupin species), Lupinus luteus (yellow lupin), Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), molecular marker, genetics, resistance, anthracnose, breeding, genetic resources, plant physiology | Julius Kuehn-Institute (JKI); Gross Luesewitz, Germany | Institute for Breeding on Agricultural Crops | Gross Luesewitz | Germany |
Julie | Hofer | julie.hofer@jic.ac.uk | site | Pisum sativum (pea), legumes, compound leaves, developmental genetics, molecular biology, genomics | John Innes Centre | Metabolic Biology | Norwich | UK |
Michelle | Hubbard | michelle.hubbard@canada.ca | | plant pathology, fungi, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Ascochyta rabiei, intercropping, disease management, root rot | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) | Swift Current Research and Development Centre | Swift Current | Canada |
Pietro | Iannetta | pete.iannetta@hutton.ac.uk | site | nitrogen fixation, rhizobia, protein, nutrition, breeding, value chain, food system, food security, policy | The James Hutton Institute | Ecological Sciences | Dundee | United Kingdom |
Omar | Idrissi | o.idrissi@yahoo.fr | site | breeding, applied genetics, genetic resources legumes | INRA Morocco | Plant breeding and genetic resources conservation | Settat | Morocco |
Wacław | Jarecki | waclaw.jarecki@wp.pl | | Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), legumes, agricultural technology, symbiosis, fertilization | Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Land Management and Environmental Protection, University of Rzeszów | Department of Plant Production | Rzeszów | Poland |
Jose C. | Jimenez-Lopez | josecarlos.jimenez@eez.csic.es | | Plant Reproduction, Lupinus spp (lupin species), legume seed development, seed dormancy and germination, legume seed proteins, Legume seed nutraceutical research, Functional Foods, Food allergy, Seed allergen proteins, proteins structure-functional characterization | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Estacion Experimental del Zaidin (EEZ); Department of Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology of Plants | Granada | Spain |
Bernadette | Julier | bernadette.julier@inrae.fr | site | Medicago sativa (alfalfa; lucerne), breeding, growth, association, molecular marker, grass, competition, yield, quality, forage | INRAE (Institut Nationale de la Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Prairies et Plantes Fourragères | Lusignan | France |
Lars | Kamphuis | lars.kamphuis@curtin.edu.au | site | Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), Cicer, ascochyta blight, sclerotinia stem rot, legume genomics | Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Curtin University | CSIRO Agriculture and Food | Bentley | Australia |
Homayoun | Kanouni | hkanouni@gmail.com | site | Cold tolerance, Genetic, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Stress resistance, Ascochyta blight | Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Agricultural Resaerch, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Iran | Food Legume Research Department | Sanandaj | Iran |
Agnieszka | Katanska-Kaczmarek | agnieszka.kaczmarek@danko.pl | | Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Pisum sativum (pea), breeding | DANKO Hodowla Roślin Sp. z o.o. | Zakład Hodowli Roślin o/Szelejewo | Szelejewo Drugie | Poland |
Peter | Keijzer | p.keijzer@louisbolk.nl | | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Lupinus spp (lupin species), mixed cropping, breeding, agronomy, pollination, ecosystem services | Louis Bolk Institute | Breeding & Innovative Cropping | Bunnik | Netherlands |
Mitch (Mieczyslaw) | Kielpinski | tmkielpin@yahoo.com | site | Pea Grand Design, creating semileafless pea architecture in 70-ties, Pisum sativum (pea) | Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, Poland | retired | Poznan | Poland |
Agnieszka | Klimek-Kopyra | agnieszka.klimek@urk.edu.pl | site | Pisum sativum (pea), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), plant productivity, plant competition, roots analysis, nodulation, inoculation, yield, drough tolerance, physiological indices | University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland | Departmet of Agroecology and Plant Production | Kraków | Polska |
Magdalena | Kroc | mkro@igr.poznan.pl | | lupins, alkaloid biosynthesis, alkaloid profiles, domestication traits, seed quality, QTLs | Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy of Sciences | Department of Genomics | Poznan | Poland |
Boris | Lazarević | blazarevic@agr.hr | | plant phenotyping, abiotic stress, root architecture | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia | Department of Plant Nutrition | Zagreb | Hrvatska |
Judith | Lichtenzveig | judith.lichtenzveig@uwa.edu.au | site | Pulse grains, Cicer spp, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), genetics, evolution, domestication, ascochyta blight, phytopathology, crops, genomes, breeding, agriculture | The University of Western Australia | UWA School of Environment and Agriculture | Crawley | Australia |
Wolfgang | Link | wlink@gwdg.de | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), breeding research, frost tolerance, heterosis | Georg-August Universität Göttingen | Crop Science Department, Plant Breeding Methodology | Göttingen | Germany |
Abou Khater | Lynn | lynnaboukhater@hotmail.com | | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Breeding, Biotic and abiotic stresses, herbicide tolerance, Pulses | International Center For Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) | Faba Bean breeding -Biodiversity and Crop Improvement Program | Terbol | Lebanon |
Ramakrishnan | Madhavan Nair | ramakrishnan.nair@worldveg.org | site | Vigna radiata (mung bean; green gram; maash), Vigna mungo (black gram; urad bean), Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Breeding, Network, Biotic stress, Abiotic Stress, Nutrition | World Vegetable Center South Asia/Central Asia | Global Plant Breeder - Legumes | Hyderabad | India |
Guilhermina | Marques | gmarques@utad.pt | site | rhizobia, mycorrhizal fungi, soil microbiology, soil beneficial microorganisms, legumes, agronomy, molecular identification os microorganisms, biofertilizers | University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro | CITAB - Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Agronomy | Vila Real | Portugal |
Mercedes | Martin-Pedrosa | mmartin@inia.es | | Novel foods, bioactive compounds, pulse processing, composition | National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) | Food Technology | Madrid | Spain |
Kevin | McPhee | kevin.mcphee@montana.edu | | Pulse, Breeding, Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Genetics | Montana State University | Department of Plant Science and Plant Pathology | Bozeman | United States |
Frederic | Muel | f.muel@terresinovia.fr | | Grain legumes, value chain, market, crop management, plant breeding | Terres Inovia | Agronomie | Thiverval Grignon | France |
Nelson | Nazzicari | nelson.nazzicari@crea.gov.it | site | genomics, genomics selection, Pisum sativum (pea), Medicago sativa (alfalfa; lucerne), Lupinus albus (white lupin), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), SNP calling, bioinformatics | Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) | Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture (CREA-ZA) | Lodi | Italy |
Adebayo | Ogunkanmi | logunkanmi@unilag.edu.ng | | Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), Digitaria exilis (white fonio; fonio millet; hungry rice; acha), breeding, drought tolerance | University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria | Cell Biology and Genetics Department, Faculty of Science | Lagos | Nigeria |
Juan M. | Osorno | juan.osorno@ndsu.edu | site | Common bean breeding, genetics, legume agronomy, International development | North Dakota State University | Dept. of Plant Sciences | Fargo | USA |
Babu | Pandey | babu.pandey@agriculture.vic.gov.au | | pea breeding, drought tolerance, Pisum sativum (pea) | Agriculture Victoria Research | Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions | Horsham | Australia |
Stefano | Pavan | stefano.pavan@uniba.it | site | Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), broomrape resistance, powdery mildew resistance, genomics, genetic diversity, marker-assisted selection | University of Bari | Department of Soil, Plant and Food Science | Bari | Italy |
Will | Pilliger | william.pillinger@limagrain.co.uk | | Pulses Breeder | LIMAGRAIN | Pulses Breeding | Bury St Edmonds | United Kingdom |
Christine | Riedel | christine.riedel@lfl.bayern.de | | Breeding, genetic resources, Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Lupinus albus (white lupin), anthracnose | Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture (LfL) | Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding (IPZ) | Ruhstorf/Rott | Germany |
Nadja | Rinke | nadja.rinke@thuenen.de | | Vicia sativa, intercropping, weed supression, protein | Thuenen Institute | Institute of Organic Farming | Westerau | Germany |
Diego | Rubiales | diego.rubiales@ias.csic.es | site | Disease resistance, Uromyces, Orobanche, Ascochyta, Erysiphe, Pisum, Vicia, Lathyrus, Lens, Cicer | Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture | Corodba | Spain |
Ana Margarida | Sampaio | amsampaio@itqb.unl.pt | site | Lathyrus sativus (grasspea; chickling pea), disease resistance, fusarium oxysporum, phenotyping, gwas | ITBQ Nova | Green it | Oeiras | Portugal |
Alessio | Scarafoni | alessio.scarafoni@unimi.it | | Lupinus spp (lupin species), grain quality, seed storage proteins, germination, bioactive compounds | Università degli Studi di Milano | Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences | Milano | Italy |
Peter | Smith | peter.smith@agrii.co.uk | | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Field Pea, New Legume crops for UK | Agrii UK | Market Devolpment Manager | Lincoln | United Kingdom |
Petr | Smykal | petr.smykal@upol.cz | site | Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), legume crop wild relatives, diversity, phylogeny, seed development, seed dormancy, drought stress | Palacky University in Olomouc | Department of Botany | Olomouc | Czech Republic |
Fred | Stoddard | frederick.stoddard@helsinki.fi | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), drought, soil acidity, vicine-convicine, food uses, cropping systems, sustainability | University of Helsinki | Department of Agricultural Sciences | Helsinki | Finland |
Carmine | Summo | carmine.summo@uniba.it | | Pulses, flours, chemical composition, bioactive compounds, aminoacid composition, antinutritional compounds, legume-based foods, bakery products, protein concentrates, air classification | University of Bari Aldo Moro | Deptartment of the Soil, Plant and Food Science (DISSPA) | Bari | Italy |
Wojciech | Święcicki | wswi@igr.poznan.pl | site | Lupinus spp (lupin species), Pisum sativum (pea), genetic resources protection, chromosome mapping, breeding, domestic protein sources | Institute of Plants Genetics Polish Academy of Sciences | Department of Genomics | Poznań | Poland |
Richard David | Thompson | richard.thompson@inrae.fr | | Pisum sativum (pea), Medicago truncatula (barrelclover; strong-spined medick; barrel medic; barrel medick), seed, endosperm, protein, flavour, transcription factor, saponin | INRAE | UMR 1347 Agroécologie | Dijon | France |
iskender | Tiryaki | tiryaki46@yahoo.com | | drought tolerance, Medicago sativa (alfalfa; lucerne), Vicia spp (vetch) | Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Universiyy | Facultu of Agriculture, Department of Biotechnology | Canakkale | TURKEY |
Monika | Toleikiene | monika.toleikiene@lammc.lt | site | Legumes, Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Lens culinaris (lentil), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), novel crops, nitrogen fixation, organic farming, biodiversity, microorganisms, carbon sequestration, climate change, adaptation | Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (LAMMC) | Institute of Agriculture; Department of Plant Nutrition and Agroecology | Kedainiai | Lithuanai |
Merili | Toom | merili.toom@etki.ee | | cover crops, nitrogen fixation | Estonian Crop Research Institute | Department of Plant Breeding | Jõgeva | Estonia |
Ingunn M. | Vågen | ingunn.vaagen@nibio.no | | Vegetables, peas, Pisum sativum (pea), edamame, Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), crop physiology, plant genetic resources | Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) | Deparement of Horticulture; Division Food production and society | Grimstad | Norway |
Maria Carlota | Vaz Patto | cpatto@itqb.unl.pt | site | Lathyrus sativus (grasspea; chickling pea), Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), quality, biotic/abiotic stress resistances, statistical genetics, participatory research | Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA); Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) | Plant Sciences Division | Oeiras | Portugal |
Dimitrios | Vlachostergios | vlachostergios@gmail.com | site | Plant Breeding; Protein Crops; Cultivar Development; Biotic and Abiotic Stress; Legume-Cereal Intercropping; Honeycomb Selection Methodology; Genotype X Environment Interactions | HELLENIC AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION | Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops; Dpt of Plant Production | LARISSA | GREECE |
Eric | von Wettberg | ebishopv@uvm.edu | site | Domestication, Vavilov, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Pisum sativum (pea), Vigna radiata (mung bean; green gram; maash), abiotic stress tolerance, crop wild relatives, genetic bottlenecks | University of Vermont | Plant and Soil Science | Burlington | United States |
Tomas | Vymyslicky | vymyslicky@vupt.cz | | legumes, genetic resources, crop wild relatives, breeding, drought tolerance, legume-grass mixtures | Agricultural Research, Ltd. | Department of genetic resources | Troubsko | Czech Republic |
Thomas (Tom) | Warkentin | tom.warkentin@usask.ca | | Pisum sativum (pea), Pisum spp (pea species), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), biofortification, protein, Aphanomyces, ascochyta, heat tolerance | University of Saskatchewan | Crop Development Centre/Plant Sciences | Saskatoon | Canada |
Vogt-Kaute | Werner | w.vogt-kaute@naturland-beratung.de | | Pisum sativum (pea), winter pea, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), pulses for food | Öko-BeratungsGesellschaft - Fachberatung für Naturland | projects | Wartmannsroth | Germany |
Bogdan | Wolko | bwol@igr.poznan.pl | | Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus luteus (yellow lupin), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), genetics, genomics, gene sequencing, flowering time | Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy of Sciences | Department of Genomics | Poznan | Poland |
Derya | Yücel | deryayucel01@gmail.com | | Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), agronomy, breeding, abiotic, stress | Şırnak University | Agriculture Faculty, Field Crops Department | Şırak | Turkey |
Magdalena | Zielińska-Dawidziak | magdalena.zielinska-dawidziak@up.poznan.pl | | ferritin, iron tolerance, digestibility, amino acids content, immunoreactivity | Poznan Univeristy of Life Sciences | Dept. of Food Biochemistry and Analysis | Poznan | Poland |
Lana | Zoric | lana.zoric@dbe.uns.ac.rs | site | plant anatomy, micromorphology, legume anatomy, forage crops, stress tolerance | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences | Department of Biology and Ecology | Novi Sad | Serbia |