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Italian National Research Council. Milano-Lodi-Pisa-Roma

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We could do what prof Paul Behrens and many other experts advise: shift to plant-rich diets such as the EAT Lancet planetary health diet, which would enable us to free for nature, in the UK, an area nearly the size of Scotland? Compare land use for built environment and livestock (inc. overseas):
Land used for all major types of land use in the UK, taken from https://nationalfoodstrategy.org/
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICDRA 2026!
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌱🧬 What a great #EuropeanResearchersNight! IBBA scientists in Milan, Pisa & Rome-Montelibretti brought research out of the lab to meet students, families and curious minds. Thanks to everyone who joined us and to all colleagues who made it possible! 🌱🔬 #CNRsocial
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IBBAs @FISV-2026 in Milano! #FISV
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
European Researchers’ Night #EuropeanResearchersNight @CNR-IBBA: watch this space! ibba.cnr.it/senza-catego...
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Dalla genetica dei legumi alle foreste che nutrono, fino alla musica dalle piante: l'Ibba-Cnr protagonista della Notte Europea della Ricerca 2026 - Istituto di biologia e biotecnologia agraria (IBBA)
Il 25 settembre 2026 torna la Notte Europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori e come ogni anno l'Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche sarà tra i prota...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🌱🫘🧪 Nasce #LEGENDARY: ricerca e innovazione per legumi più resilienti! Nuove strategie per migliorare resilienza e sostenibilità delle leguminose, contribuendo a un'agricoltura più sostenibile e pronta alle sfide climatiche. 🌍🌾 #CNRsocial #Legumes #PlantScience progettoager.it/ager/nasce-l...
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Nasce LEGENDARY: ricerca e innovazione per legumi più resilienti - Progetto Ager
Rendere fagiolo e cece più resilienti alla siccità, migliorare l’uso delle risorse e valorizzarne la qualità nutrizionale e alimentare. Sono questi gli obiettivi di LEGENDARY, il progetto finanziato d...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Cristian Perna won the prize for the best oral presentation by an under-35 at the 2026 Workshop of the Mediterranean Biodiversity Sciences Academy (#ASBM) in Pisa! #ScuolaSantaAnnaPisa
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Translational Plant Genomics group @tpg-sssa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What an amazing week at the FFWD-Plants seasonal school! 🧬 It was a blast sharing innovative research, from #agrobiodiversity to #QuantitativeGenetics in such a vibrant international atmosphere. We had some truly great times together!✨ A huge thank you to all the trainers and participants!
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🌿🎶🧪 When science meets art, plants become music. At the #AnieneFestival, Carmelo Cannarella and Valerio Giorgio Muzzini transformed plant bioelectrical signals into immersive live soundscapes, revealing new nature experiencing. 🌱🎼 > #CNRsocial #ScienceCommunication #Phytoacoustics #ArtMeetsScience
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🧪🫘🌽 Engineering better seed proteins! We show that fusing bean phaseolin with the N-domain of maize 16-γ-zein boosts accumulation while preserving vacuolar trafficking—a step toward more nutritious crop seeds. 🌱 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42402987/ #PlantBiotech #FoodSecurity #SeedBiology #CNRSocial
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A Fusion Between Common Bean Phaseolin and the N-Terminal Domain of Maize 16 kDa Gamma Zein: Clues for Designing Nutritionally Improved Seed Storage Proteins - PubMed
Increasing the nutritional value of seed storage proteins (SSPs) has been largely hindered by limited knowledge of how the features of the various SSP domains determine high accumulation in protein st...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Report and sumary from the 2026 Erice Structural Biology Course: crystalerice.org/2026/report.... - food for thought!
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International School of Crystallography :: Welcome
The homepage of the International School of Crystallography - held in Erice, Italy, since 1974
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🚀 Looking for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship host? Join the Italian National Research Council @ IBBA-CNR! 🔗 ibba.cnr.it/en/join-ibba... #MSCA #Postdoc #MarieCurie #ResearchJobs #EUResearch #LifeScience
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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
Badge, Poster and ProgramElena Baldoni with her title slidePhoto of participants at MondelloElena Baldoni presenting
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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 🫘🔬
Dario Paolo presenting Dario Paolo and Francesca Sparvoli at their poster
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fascination of Plants Day #FOPD @IBBA: 🍀💚🌴🌳🌱🧪
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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....
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Editing of SlMYB60 Reveals a Role in Cuticle Formation in Tomato
Under climate change, yield stability depends heavily on the ability to develop resilient crops, better adapted to water scarcity. Studies in model systems have uncovered molecular pathways and genes...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🐐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...
A goat
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🍞🎤🍞 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
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🍑 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)
An unripened peach and a ripe peach, against a DNA double helix background.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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...
A figure illustrating how to add common bean flour to bread! and how to test the bread properties and the quality improvement brought about by the addition of bean flour.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📢 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...
Lemna under the microscope!
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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
Four-photo collage from the COST Action ACRYRED Training School in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Top left: view of the ancient Roman theatre ruins under a blue sky. Top right: large group photo of participants standing on indoor steps. Bottom left and centre-right: Elena Baldoni presenting slides titled “Genetic Approaches and Breeding for Low-Asparagine Varieties” and an acknowledgements slide. Bottom right: side view of Elena speaking during the presentation.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Legumes, redesigned: breeding for quality, resilience, and sustainability to power the next generation of agriculture! www.georgofili.info/contenuti/mi...
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Miglioramento genetico dei legumi: qualità, resilienza e sostenibilità nella transizione agro-ambientale
legumi rivestono un ruolo cruciale nei sistemi agroalimentari: costituiscono una fonte primaria di proteine per l’alimentazione umana, contribuiscono all’apporto di fibre e micronutrienti e sono strat...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.cnr.it/it/news/14248
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Il Cnr-Ibba designato "Centro di Riferimento Nazionale per la Conservazione del Germoplasma degli animali domestici" | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
del germoplasma degli animali domestici”, come da nota MASAF prot. n. 69150 del 12 febbraio 2026.Un riconoscimento di rilievo che consolida il ruolo del CNR nella tutela della biodiversità zootecnica e nella salvaguardia delle razze locali a rischio di estinzione.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Stop the Slop
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Importantissimo www.instagram.com/reels/DUh8-v...
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Precari Uniti CNR 2.0 on Instagram: "🎯Dal 2025 delle incertezze e delle promesse mancate al 2026 delle scelte che contano. ✍🏻In questo video, i precari del CNR leggono una lettera che la politica e i...
84 likes, 1 comments - ricercatoriimperdibili_2.0 on February 8, 2026: "🎯Dal 2025 delle incertezze e delle promesse mancate al 2026 delle scelte che contano. ✍🏻In questo video, i precari del CNR legg...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Una borsa a IBBA-Mi www.urp.cnr.it/node/41798
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id-20260122-095123 | CNR - Unità Relazioni con il Pubblico e Comunicazione integrata
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🎉 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.
Yuri Lee Travel AwardLogo of the 8th Conference on Duckweed Research and Applications
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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
A symbolic picture of the gut, with the left hand side carnivorous diet and the right hand side pescatarian diet.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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....
A Holstein Heifer with hazelnuts overlayed and a background of bacteria.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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
Genomic anaysis of buffalo genomes: genomics network in the background, buffalo in front with a DNA molecule in white at the front.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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
A cow being milked
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨 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
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International School of Crystallography :: Welcome
The homepage of the International School of Crystallography - held in Erice, Italy, since 1974
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🐥 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
A broiler hen and a broiler hen whose health is boosted
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🪷 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
Lemna plants flowering and pollinating
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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
An AI generated figure symbolising the sequencing of the pangenome of aubergine.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Cd++ tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Riso TEA resistente al brusone. www.wired.it/article/racc...
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Per la prima volta in Italia abbiamo raccolto riso sviluppato attraverso le Tea, le nuove tecniche di editing genetico
Dopo le devastazioni dello scorso anno nelle risaie Pavese e della vite a Verona, il team dell’Università Statale di Milano ha completato con successo la prima sperimentazione in campo
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This only happens to you once
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Notte europea delle ricercatrici e dei ricercatori a Montelibretti #NER
NER MontelibrettiNER MontelibrettiNER MontelibrettiNER Montelibretti
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Let’s roll! #NDR Milano
Notte della Ricerca a Milano! #NDRNotte della Ricerca a Milano #NDR
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
IBBA e la Notte della Ricerca ibba.cnr.it/senza-catego... #ERN
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Il 26 settembre torna la notte della ricerca - Istituto di biologia e biotecnologia agraria (IBBA)
Il 26 settembre in tutta l’Europa si terranno eventi volti a diffondere la cultura scientifica e la conoscenza delle professioni della ricerca in un contesto informale e stimolante.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🐖🌱 “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
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Evaluation of Phaseolus vulgaris lec‐ lpa as Alternative Protein Source on Growth Performances, Health Status, Faecal Minerals and Gut Microbiota in Weaned Piglet's Diet
Partial replacement of soybean meal with an innovative Phaseolus vulgaris genotype with low lectin and phytic acid content was evaluated in weaned pigs’ diet. Although piglets fed the bean-based diet...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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
Come trovare fagioli più nutrienti e biosostenibili.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
Poster of the Magicoat and Tolerant projects
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Prendeteci in castagna alla Notte Europea di Ricercatori e Ricercatrici: www.cnr.it/it/evento/20... #NotteDeiRicercatori, #ERN 🌰🌰🌰
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La castagna, una grande riserva di amido | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Da alcuni anni il Cnr-Ibba ha in corso dei progetti focalizzati su varietà di castagno presenti in Lombardia.
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Cristiana Sbrana sui vantaggi della rotazione delle colture: almanacco.cnr.it/articolo/143...
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La rotazione delle colture come rigenerazione del suolo
Prendersi una pausa, in agricoltura, significa restituire al suolo il tempo per rigenerarsi e ritrovare equilibrio. La rotazione delle colture è una pratica che traduce questo concetto in azione concr...
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Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology @ibbacnr.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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
Chiara Russo e Francesca Sparvoli dopo il premio a Chiara per il suo poster.
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