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Project title
FABALOUS - Faba Bean Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance for Improved Yield Stability
Short description
Faba bean (Vicia faba), a legume yielding high-quality, protein-rich seeds, also serves as a vital phytosanitary crop, benefiting pollinators and enhancing soil fertility. By leaving a significant nitrogen surplus in the soil, it plays a crucial role in sustainable crop rotations, particularly in organic agriculture, positioning it as a potential "soybean of the North" for food and feed. However, biotic and abiotic stresses reduce both faba bean yield and its year-to-year stability. Strengthening breeding activities is therefore essential to develop more resilient cultivars. Yield stability is especially compromised by abiotic stress during reproductive stages, a challenge expected to intensify with climate change. The FABALOUS project seeks to improve yield stability under combined environmental stresses, a critical step towards establishing faba bean as a consistently productive crop for farmers.
Project duration
2025 – 2028
Staff involved
Linbo Wu, Qianfei Zhu
Collaboration partners
- Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Department for Genetics of Crop Diversity; Department of Phytopathology;
Department of Plant Nutrition; Department for Plant breeding;
Department of Crop Biomass and Bioressources; Department for Agrobioinformatics
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Universiät Bayreuth
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Julius Kühn-Institut für Resistenzzüchtung und Stresstoleranz Quedlinburg
- Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben
- Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht innovation GmbH
Funding
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
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