| Name | Family Name | Web page | Keywords | Institute | Department | City | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kedar | Adhikari | kedar.adhikari@sydney.edu.au | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), grain legumes, disease resistance, breeding, drought tolearnce, heat tolearnce, rust resistance, grain quality | Sydney Institute of Agriculture, The University of Sydney | International Centre for Crop and Digital Agriculture | Narrabri | Australia |
| James | Ajal | james.ajal@slu.se | site | Glycine max (soybean), Vicia faba (faba bean), Lupinus angustifolius (Lupin), Pisum sativum (pea), grain legumes, plant functional traits, nitrogen use efficiency, crop-weed interaction, intercropping | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Department of Crop production Ecology | Uppsala | Sweden |
| Sheila | Alves | sheila.alves@teagasc.ie | site | Faba beans, Field peas, Lupins, Agronomy, Abiotic stresses, Cool season legumes, intercropping | Teagasc | Crops Science | Carlow | Ireland |
| 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 |
| M Carmen | Asensio-S.-Manzanera | asesanmr@itacyl.es | Bean, Lens culinaris (lentil), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), agronomy, genetics | Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León | Subdirección de Investigación y Tecnología | Valladolid | Spain | |
| Judith | Atieno | judith.atieno@sa.gov.au | Cicer arietinum (chickpea), disease resistance, plant breeding, genetics, genomics | South Australian Research and Development Institute | Plant Molecular Genetics | Adelaide | Australia | |
| Grégoire | AUBERT | gregoire.aubert@inrae.fr | Pisum sativum (pea), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Lens culinaris (lentil), genetics, genotyping, genomics | INRAE | UMR Agroécologie | DIJON | FRANCE | |
| Karen | Aulrich | karen.aulrich@thuenen.de | site | legumes, ingredients, chemical composition, secondary plant metabolites, amino acids, fatty acids | Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries | Thünen Institute of Organic Farming | Westerau | Germany |
| Razlin | Azman | raz.mohdazmanhalimi@unimelb.edu.au | site | Legume, nutritional analysis, chromatography, metabolomics, underutilised legumes, selection indices, drought, stomatal conductance | The University of Melbourne | School of Food, Agriculture and Ecosystem Science | Melbourne | Australia |
| Fanélie | Bachelet | fanelie.bachelet@inrae.fr | site | Pisum sativum (pea), SULTR4, sulfate transport, vacuole, sulfur, seed yield, storage proteins, seed tissues | INRAE | UMR Agroécologie | Dijon | France |
| Bálint | Balázs | balazs.balint@essrg.hu | site | Food policy for the transformation of the food system, Participatory methods, cooperative research | ESSRG - Environmental Social Science Research Group | Budapest | Hungary | |
| Marta | Ballesteros | marta.ballesteros@upm.es | Rhizobium-legume symbiosis, Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), inoculate, rhizobia adaptation to the host | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid- | Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas | Madrid | Spain | |
| Eleonora | Barilli | ebarilli@ias.csic.es | legumes, biotic stresses, plant breeding, Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), vetches, grass pea, aphid, rust, fungal phytotoxins, molecular markers, orobanche, phenotyping | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC; Córdoba, Spain | Plant Breeding Department | Córdoba | Spain | |
| Jose | Barrero | jose.barrero@csiro.au | site | Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), insect resistance, photosynthesis, oil | The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) | Agriculture and Food | Canberra | Australia |
| Abel | Barrios | barcasab@itacyl.es | Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), genetic resources | Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León (ITACyL) | Department of Herbaceous Crops | Valladolid | Spain | |
| Navya | Beera | beeranavya@student.unimelb.edu.au | Lens culinaris (lentil), drought, ascochyta blight, plant physiology, Molecular biology, Gene expression, plant photosynthesis | The University of Melbourne | Faculty of Science | Melbourne | Australia | |
| Fede | Berckx | fede.berckx@slu.se | Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), lupine, nitrogen fixation, microbiome, microbiology, Frankia | Department of Crop Production Ecology; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Department of Crop Production Ecology; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Uppsala | Sweden | |
| Elizabeth | Berenik | eberenik@gmail.com | Cicer judaicum, Cicer pinnatifidum, Ascochyta blight | University of Saskatchewan | Plant Sciences | Saskatoon | Canada | |
| Sara | Blake | sara.blake@sa.gov.au | disease, Lens culinaris (lentil), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), field pea, breeding, resistance, pathogen, pathogenicity | South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) | Plant Health & Biosecurity - Pulse Pathology | Adelaide | Australia | |
| Louise | Blanc | louise.blanc@udl.cat | Cropping system diversification, intercropping, crop rotation, soil-crop modeling | University of Lleida | Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering | Lleida | Spain | |
| Reiner | Bothe | reiner.bothe@kws.com | Pea Breeding, Aphanomyces resistance, Fusarium resistance, Protein Content and Quality, Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean) | KWS SAAT SE | Protein Crop Breeding | Einbeck, Germany and Lille, France | Germany | |
| Xavier | Bousselin | x.bousselin@groupe-esa.com | Intercropping, Service plant, N2 fixation | Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures | USC LEVA, Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures, INRAE | Angers | France | |
| Lisa | Brünjes | lbruenj@uni-goettingen.de | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), population genetics, bees, pollination, reproductive traits, synthetic cultivars | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Plant Breeding Methodology, Department of Crop Sciences | Göttingen | Germany | |
| Ana | Campa | acampa@serida.org | Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), biotic stresses, genetic diversity, plant breeding, resistant genes | Regional Service for Agrofood Research and Development (SERIDA) | Plant Genetics | Villaviciosa | Spain | |
| Filippo | Carmenati | filippo.carmenati@agroscope.admin.ch | site | Lens culinaris (lentil), Mixed Intercropping, Fusarium Oxysporum, Pollinators call | Agroscope / ETHZ | Extension Arable Crops - Agroscope / Sustainable Agroecosystems - ETH | Zürich | Svizzera |
| 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 |
| Márcia | Carvalho | marciac@utad.pt | Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), genetic diversity, molecular markers, drought tolerance | Centre for Research and Technology of Agro-Environment and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) | Centre for Research and Technology of Agro-Environment and Biological Sciences (CITAB) Department of Genetic and Biotechnology | Vila Real | Portugal | |
| Chengci | Chen | cchen@montana.edu | site | Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Vigna radiata (mung bean; green gram; maash), adzuki bean, agronomy, protein | Montana State University | Eastern Agricultural Research Center | Sidney | United States |
| Chengci | Chen | cchen@montana.edu | site | Legume Cropping Systems, Cultivar Selection and Testing, Legume Nutrition | Montana State University | Eastern Agricultural Research Center | Sidney | United States |
| Salon | Christophe | christophe.salon@inrae.fr | site | Grain legumes, phenotyping, fluxomics, plant and microbe interactions | INRAE | UMR Agroécologie | Dijon | France |
| Karen | Cichy | karen.cichy@usda.gov | site | common bean, end-use quality, cooking time, canning, nutritional quality, protein, pulse flours, dry bean breeding and genetics | United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) | Agricultural Research Service (ARS) | East Lansing | US |
| Alfonso | Clemente | alfonso.clemente@eez.csic.es | nutrition, protein digestibility, protease inhibitors, Bowman-Birk, Pisum sativum (pea), oligosaccharides, prebiotic, anti-carcinogenic, proteases, protein digestion, infogest | Estación Experimental del Zaidin (CSIC) | Nutrition and Animal Sustainable Nutrition | Granada | Spain | |
| 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 | |
| Henry Alexander | Cordoba Novoa | henry.cordoba@mail.mcgill.ca | site | common bean, genomics, deleterious alleles, inbreeding, evolution, machine learning, magic population | McGill University | Plant Science | Montreal | Canada |
| Oppliger | Corina | corina.oppliger@usys.ethz.ch | Peas, pea flowering, high throughput field phenotyping, image-based phenotyping | ETH Zurich | Institute of Agricultural Sciences | Zurich | Switzerland | |
| Margherita | Crosta | margherita.crosta@crea.gov.it | site | Pisum sativum (pea), grain yield, protein content, Lupinus albus (white lupin), oil, alkaloids, breeding, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics | Council of Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) | Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture | Lodi | Italy |
| Iris | Dahlin | iris.dahlin@slu.se | Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), new crop, on-farm trials, cropping manual | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Crop Production Ecology | Uppsala | Sweden | |
| Davide | De Angelis | davide.deangelis@uniba.it | site | Legume flour, legume protein, Dry fractionation, Extrusion-cooking, Food Technology, Rheology, Textural properties, New product development | University of Bari | Department of Soil, Plant, and Food Science | Bari | Italy |
| Antonio M. | De Ron | amderon@mbg.csic.es | Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), germplasm, genetics, breeding, agrosystems, microorganisms | Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG); Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Department of Crop Science | Pontevedra | Spain | |
| Nawa Raj | Dhamala | njr@plen.ku.dk | site | Agroecology, cropping system diversification, intercropping, legumes biological nitrogen fixation, nitrogen cycling, root growth and functions, resource use efficiency, climate resilience | Crop Science Section; University of Copenhagen | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Taastrup | Denmark |
| Mercedes | Díaz | b42dibam@uco.es | common bean | University if Cordoba | Plant physiology | Córdoba | Spain | |
| 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 |
| Lucas | Erdmann | lucas.erdmann@julius-kuehn.de | Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), molecular marker, alkaloids, genetic resources, breeding | Julius Kuehn-Institute (JKI) | Institute for Breeding on Agricultural Crops | Groß Lüsewitz | Germany | |
| Julia | Escudero Feliu | julia.escudero@eez.csic.es | site | Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin), Seed-storage proteins, Nutrition, Nutraceutics, Inflammation, Health ammelioration, Breast cancer, New therapies | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Department of Stress, Development and Signaling in Plants | Granada | Spain |
| Asger | Eskildsen | ase@plen.ku.dk | Plant nutrition, drought tolerance, agronomy, Pisum sativum (pea), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean) | Plant and Environmental Science, University of Copenhagen | Plant and Soil | Copenhagen | Denmark | |
| Ana Ines | Estevez Magnasco | ana.estevez@ilr.uni-bonn.de | site | International Nutrition policy, Legume consumption, behavioural economy | Food And Resource Economics Bonn University | Socioeconomics of Sustainable Nutrition | Bonn | Germany |
| Andrea | Fernández Gutiérrez | anfeg@unileon.es | Lens culinaris (lentil), drought tolerance, genetics, bioinformatics | Faculty of biology and environmental sciences; University of Leon | Genetics Area; Molecular Biology Department | Leon | Spain | |
| JUAN JOSE | FERREIRA | jjferreira@serida.org | site | Phaseolus, plant genetic, diversity, diseases, plant breeding, cropping systems | Regional Service for Agrofood Research and Development (SERIDA) | Plan Genetic, Research Department | VILLAVICIOSA, ASTURIAS | SPAIN |
| Krishna Kishore | Gali | kishore.gali@usask.ca | Pea breeding, Genomics-assisted breeding, Aphanomyces root rot, Root rot complex, Seed protein Concentration, QTL mapping, Genome sequencing, RNA-seq, Computational biology, marker-assisted breeding. | University of Saskatchewan | Plant Sciences | Saskatoon | Canada | |
| Justine | GAUTHIER | justine.gauthier@axereal.com | yellow peas production, aphanomyces, bacteria, drought tolerance, spraying application, genetics, pea yield | French Cooperative AXEREAL | Agronomy | ORLEANS | FRANCE | |
| Sofia | Ghitarrini | sofia.ghitarrini@psbsementi.it | site | breeding, variety development, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Pisum sativum (pea), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), lupin, seed production | Società Produttori Sementi Spa | R&D Legume Species | San Severino Marche (MC) | Italy |
| 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 |
| Margaux | Guy | m.guy@groupe-esa.com | site | Cicer arietinum (chickpea), intercropping, weed control, companion plant, ascochyta blight | Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures | USC LEVA, Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures, 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 | |
| Bernadette | Henares | bernadette.henares@curtin.edu.au | site | Ascochyta lentis, ascochyta blight, Lens culinaris (lentils), pulses, Effectors, plant-pathogen interactions | Curtin University | Centre for Crop and Disease Management | Perth | Australia |
| José Antonio | Herrera-Cervera | jahc@ugr.es | site | Medicago sativa (alfalfa; lucerne), Medicago truncatula (barrelclover; strong-spined medick; barrel medic; barrel medick), Phaseolus, Lotus, abiotic stress, nitrogen fixation, plant-microbe interactions | University of Granada | Plant Physiology | Granada | Spain |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Verdier | Jerome | jerome.verdier@inrae.fr | seed, stress, abiotic, biotic, epigenetic | INRAE | IRHS | Angers | France | |
| Manuel Alejandro | Jiménez Vaquero | majimenez@ias.csic.es | Breeding, resistance, biotic factors, fitopathology, genetics, genomics, powdery mildew, ascochyta, leave diseases, legumes, Pisum sativum (pea) | Spanish Natuonal Research Council (CSIC) | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture; Department of Plant Breeding | Córdoba | Spain | |
| 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 | |
| Dr. Jagroop Gill | Kahlon | jkahlon@albertapulse.com | site | Crop improvement, Pisum sativum (pea), fabaceae, Aphanomyces eutiches, disease tolerance, drought tolerane, value-add, gene editing, plant based, | Alberta Pulse | Research | Edmonton | Canada |
| 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 |
| Sukhjiwan | Kaur | sukhjiwan.kaur@agriculture.vic.gov.au | genetics and genomics, computational breeding, quantitative genetics, molecular breeding | Agriculture Victoria | Applied Genomics and Predictive Breeding Team | Melbourne | Australia | |
| Jens Axel | Knuhtsen | jeak@plen.ku.dk | Pisum sativum (pea), population, pre-breeding, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, genomic analysis | University of Copenhagen | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Copenhagen | Denmark | |
| Nicholas | Larkan | nicholas.larkan@agr.gc.ca | Aphanomyces, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), Pisum sativum (pea), genomics, genetics, resistance, genotyping | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Saskatoon Research & Development Centre | Saskatoon | Canada | |
| Kristian Holst | Laursen | holst@plen.ku.dk | site | Plant nutrition, Analytical chemistry, Food quality | University of Copenhagen | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Copenhagen | Denmark |
| Boris | Lazarević | blazarevic@agr.hr | plant phenotyping, abiotic stress, root architecture | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia | Department of Plant Nutrition | Zagreb | Hrvatska | |
| Tamara | Lebrecht | lebrecht@criticalscientists.ch | Lathyrus sativus (grasspea; chickling pea), intercropping, agroecology | ETH Zurich; Critical Scientists Switzerland | Agroecological Transitions Group | Bern | Switzerland | |
| Susana T. | Leitão | sleitao@itqb.unl.pt | Phaseolus, Lathyrus, Disease (fungal) resistance, Drought tolerance, Biotic-abiotic stresses interaction, Genetic diversity, GWAS | ITQB NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa | PlantX Lab | Oeiras | Portugal | |
| Isabelle | Lejeune-Hénaut | isabelle.lejeune-henaut@inrae.fr | grain legumes, frost tolerance, climate change, genetics, plant breeding | INRAE | Biology and Plant Breeding | Estrées-Mons | France | |
| 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 |
| Antonio | Lippolis | antonio.lippolis@wur.nl | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Pisum sativum (pea), andean lupin, GWAS, NIRS, quality, flavour, protein transition | Wageningen University & Research | Department of Plant Breeding - Biobased Economy group | Wageningen | Netherlnds |
| Silvia | Lisciani | silvia.lisciani@crea.gov.it | Sustainability, food composition, nutrition, food database | Council of Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) | Research Center for Food and Nutrition | Rome | Italy | |
| Miguel | López-Gómez | mlgomez@ugr.es | site | Nitrogen fixation, symbiosis, rhizobium, legumes | Universidad de Granada | Fisiología Vegetal | Granada | Spain |
| 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 |
| Francisco | Madueño | madueno@ibmcp.upv.es | developmental genetics, reproductive development, inflorescence architecture, Pisum sativum (pea), Arabidopsis, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean) | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) | Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas | Valencia | Spain | |
| PRUDENT | Marion | marion.prudent@inrae.fr | ecophysiology, legume nutrition, drought resilience | INRAE | UMR Agroécologie | Dijon | France | |
| Cristina | Martínez Villaluenga | c.m.villaluenga@csic.es | site | Protein quality, macronutrient digestibility, mineral bioaccessibility, legume processing, bioactivity, bioactive compounds | Institute of Food Science Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Department of Food Processes and Biotechnology | Madrid | Spain |
| Corentin | Maslard | maslard.corentin@gmail.com | site | Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), RNAseq, multiOMIC, metabolomic, Root architecture, nutrient, climat change, heat, drought, stress, abiotic | Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnementINRAe | Agroécologie | Dijon | France |
| 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 | |
| Alexander | Menegat | alexander.menegat@slu.se | site | Lupinus angustifolius (blue lupin) | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Crop Production Ecology | Uppsala | Sweden |
| Mohamed Zakeel | Mohamed Cassim | mohamedzakeel.mohamedcassim@csiro.au | Cicer arietinum (chickpea), canola, diseases, epidemiology, plant stresses, cropping system, beneficial microbes, plant-microbe interaction, molecular breeding, tree crops, diagnosis of enigmatic diseases, modelling of epidemic dynamics, biofertilizers, bioinformatics, RNA interference, microRNA, abiotic stress, endogenous viral elements, molecular markers, plant soil and gut microbiomes. | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | CSIRO - Agriculture & Food | Canberra | Australia | |
| Heike | Molenaar | molenaarheike@gmail.com | Legume breeder for food and feed | van Waveren Saaten gmbH, Germany | Research & Development | Rosdorf | Germany | |
| María | Muñoz Amatriaín | mmuna@unileon.es | Legumes, genetic resources, genomic resources, Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), Lens culinaris (lentil), crop genetics and breeding | Universidad de León | Department of Molecular Biology (Area of Genetics) | León | Spain | |
| Lea | Narits | lea.narits@metk.agri.ee | site | field pea, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), breeding, agrotechnological trials | The Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge | plant breeding | Jogeva | Estonia |
| 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 |
| Ochanda | Ogola | ochanda.ogola@univen.ac.za | Cropping systems, ecophysiology, Cicer arietinum (chickpea), crop water use, soil fertility and plant nutrition | University of Venda | Department of Plant and Soil Sciences | Thohoyandou | South Africa | |
| Salvador | Osuna-Caballero | salvador.osuna@csic.es | site | Pisum, rust resistance, quantitative genetics, GxE interactions, GWAS, Genomic selection, QTL | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture - CSIC | Department of Plant Breeding | Córdoba | Spain |
| Travis | Parker | trparker@ucdavis.edu | Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), green bean, genomics, genetics, remote sensing, pod quality, plant breeding | University of California, Davis | Department of Plant Sciences | Davis | USA | |
| Antonella | Pasqualone | antonella.pasqualone@uniba.it | site | food design, food application of pulses, vegetable proteins, legume-based food, bakery products, flatbread | University of Bari | Department of Soil, Plant and Food Science | Bari | Italy |
| 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 |
| Luciano | Pecetti | luciano.pecetti@crea.gov.it | Pisum sativum (pea), Lupinus albus (white lupin), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Vigna unguiculata (cowpea), Medicago sativa (alfalfa; lucerne), drought tolerance, breeding | Council of Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) | Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture | Lodi | Italy | |
| Sherrilyn | Phelps | sphelps@saskpulse.com | site | Pisum sativum (pea), Lens culinaris (lentil), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), fenugreek, lupin, root rot, herbicide tolerance, quality | Saskatchewan Pulse Growers | Research and Development | Saskatoon | Canada |
| Hélène | Pidon | helene.pidon@inrae.fr | site | Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus spp (lupin species), cluster roots, genetics, genomics, diversity | French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) | UMR IPSiM | Montpellier | France |
| Marie-Laure | PILET-NAYEL | marie-laure.pilet-nayel@inrae.fr | site | Pisum sativum (pea), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Lens culinaris (lentil), disease, pest, resistance, root, Aphanomyces, aphid, genetics, QTL, pathology, breeding, genomics | INRAE | Institute of Genetics, Environment and Plant Protection (IGEPP) | Le Rheu | FRANCE |
| Daniel | Plaza-Bonilla | daniel.plaza@udl.cat | site | agronomy, biological nitrogen fixation, conservation agriculture, cover crops, cropping systems, double cropping, field crops, greenhouse gases, intercropping, Mediterranean agriculture, relay cropping, soil-crop modelling, soil management, rotations | University of Lleida - AGROTECNIO CERCA Center | Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering and Agrotecnio CERCA Center | Lleida | Spain |
| Carlos | Polanco | carlos.polanco@unileon.es | Lens culinaris (lentil), drought tolerance, disease resistance, genetic variability, genetic maps, Ascochyta | Universidad de León | Departamento de Biología Celular, Área de Genética | León | Spain | |
| Pierluigi | Reveglia | pierluigi.reveglia@unifg.it | site | secondary metabolites, metabolomics, abiotic stress, fungal pathogens, chemometrics, seeds quality | University of Foggia | Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine | Foggia | Italy |
| Dae-Kyun | Ro | daekyun.ro@ucalgary.ca | site | Plant metabolism, Secondary metabolism, Terpenoid, Isoprenoid, Phenylpropanoid, Genome-edit, Pisum sativum (pea) | University of Calgary | Biological Sciences | Calgary | Canada |
| Ana Paula | Rodiño | aprodino@mbg.csic.es | bean, breeding, rhizobia, legumes, microbiota, nitrogen fixation | Superior Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Misión Biológica de Galicia. Biología de Agrosistemas | Pontevedra | Spain | |
| 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 |
| Luis A | Rubio | lrubio@eez.csic.es | feed- and foodstuffs, composition, nutritional value, nutritional requirements, digestibility, bioavailability, nutrients utilization, nutrients metabolism, mineral balance, energy and protein balance, bioactive compounds, cell cultures, intestinal microbiota, prebiotics, fat, protein and amino acid deposition. | Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC) | Departamento de Nutrición y Producción Animal Sostenible (Department of Animal Nutrition and Sustainable Production) | Granada | Spain | |
| Sajitha Biju | Sajitha | sajitha.biju@unimelb.edu.au | Lens culinaris (lentil), drought stress, silicon, nitrogen fixation, pulses, plant stress biology, sustainable agriculture, roots, legumes, climate-resilient crops, plant physiology, plant biochemistry | The University of Melbourne, Australia | School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Science | Melbourne | Australia | |
| Tea | Sala | tea.sala@crea.gov.it | drought tolerance, Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), seed quality, food security, | Council of Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) | Research centre for Genomics & Bioinformatics | Montanaso Lombardo | Italy | |
| Juan | Sanjuan | juan.sanjuan@eez.csic.es | Symbiosis, Nitrogen Fixation, plant-microbe interactions, plant microbiology | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) | Estacion Experimental del Zaidin | Granada | Spain | |
| MARTA | SANTALLA | msantalla@mbg.csic.es | site | COMMON BEAN, PHASEOLUS, GENETICS, PLANT DEVELOPMENT, BREEDING, FLOWERING | AGENCIA ESTATAL DEL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (CSIC), MISION BIOLOGICA DE GALICIA (MBG) | GRUPO DE GENÉTICA DEL DESARROLLO DE PLANTAS (DEVOLEG) | PONTEVEDRA | SPAIN |
| Ana M. | Santos | asantos@ugr.es | common bean, shuttering, confocal microscopy, histology and anatomy | Centro de Instrumentación Científica (CIC-UGR), University of Granada, Spain | Microscopy Facilities | Granada | Spain | |
| Carmen | Santos | css@itqb.unl.pt | site | Lathyrus sativus (grasspea; chickling pea), Lathyrus cicera, biotic stress, powdery mildew disease, rust disease, genomics, transcriptomics, PLquantitative genetics | ITQB NOVA | PlantX | Oeiras | Portugal |
| Michael | Schneider | michael.schneider@fibl.org | site | Lupinus albus (white lupin), Pisum sativum (pea), Root microbiome, composite cross populations, bioinformatics, organic breeding | FiBL | Crops | Frick | Switzerland |
| Alan | Schulman | alan.schulman@helsinki.fi | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), genomics, genome dynamics, drought tolerance, seed quality, disease resistance, transposable elements, pan-genome assembly | Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE); University of Helsinki | Production Systems; Insitute of Biotechnology | Helsinki | Finland |
| Tal | Sherman | tal.sherman@betterseeds.com | Breeding using genome editing | BetterSeeds | BetterSeeds | Givat Hen | Israel | |
| Kadambot H.M. | Siddique | kadambot.siddique@uwa.edu.au | site | Cicer arietinum (chickpea), pulses, physiology, drought tolerance, abiotic stress, Lens culinaris (lentil), fava bean, field pea, mungbean, grain legumes, molecular biology, breeding, genetics, yield improvement, genetic resources | The University of Western Australia | The UWA Institute of Agriculture | Perth | Australia |
| Genís | Simon-Miquel | genis.simon@udl.cat | field crops, cropping systems, grain legumes, protein, N fixation, STICS model | Universitat de Lleida | Department of Agricultural and Forest Science and Engineering | Lleida | Spain | |
| Nimllash Thangam | Sivachandra Kumar | nis286@mail.usask.ca | Pulse pathology working with Root rot complex in pulses | university of Saskatchewan | Department of Plant Sciences | Saskatoon | Canada | |
| 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 |
| Adrien | SONNET | adrien.sonnet@inrae.fr | Pisum sativum (pea), Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), frost tolerance, fluorescence imaging, electrolytes leakage, climatic chambers | French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) | Plant Biology & Breeding | Estrées-Mons | France | |
| Jodi | Souter | jodi.r.souter@gmail.com | breeding, Lens culinaris (lentil), lens orientalis, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch) | J4 Agri-Science | Plant Breeding | Saskatoon | Canada | |
| francesca | sparvoli | sparvoli@ibba.cnr.it | site | Phaseolus vulgaris (drybean; dry bean), seed quality, Tilling, antinutrents | Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology National Research Council Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology National Research Council Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology National Research Council Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology | Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences | Milan | Italy |
| 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 |
| Hanna | Tietgen | h.tietgen@npz-innovation.de | site | Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Pisum sativum (pea), Breeding, drought and heat drought tolerance, resistance breeding, marker development, quality traits, breeding methods, genomic and phenomic selection | NPZ Innovation GmbH | Legume research | Holtsee | Germany |
| 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 |
| Kairsty | Topp | kairsty.topp@sruc.ac.uk | site | Sustainability of agricultural systems, GHG, legumes, modelling | SRUC | Plant and Soil Science | Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| Nicolas | Trenk | nicolas.trenk@jic.ac.uk | Pisum sativum (pea), root rot resistance, Fusarium solani, Fusarium oxysporum, Linkage mapping, Association genetics, Histopathology, Transcriptomics | John Innes Centre | Biochemisty and Metabolism | Norwich | United Kingdom | |
| Luisa | Trindade | luisa.trindade@wur.nl | lupin, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Pisum sativum (pea) | Wageningen University | Plant Breeding | Wageningen | The Netherlands | |
| 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 |
| Roger | Vickers | roger@pgro.org | pulses, vegetable legumes, applied research, agronomy, supply chain, markets | Processors and Growers Research Organisation | Processors and Growers Research Organisation | Peterborough | United Kingdom | |
| Juan Ignacio 'Nacho' | Vílchez | nacho.vilchez@itqb.unl.pt | site | plant-microbe interaction, seed microbiota, Medicago, stress treatments, root signalling, microbial population analysis | ITQB NOVA | Plant Division | Oeiras | Portugal |
| Ángel | Villegas-Fernández | avillegas@ias.csic.es | Plant breeding, diseases, weeds, crop diversification, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Vicia narbonensis | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS-CSIC) | Córdoba | Spain | |
| Eric | von Wettberg | eric.bishop-von-wettberg@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 | |
| Stephanie | Witten | stephanie.witten@thuenen.de | Feeding, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), clover, Medicago sativa (alfalfa; lucerne) | Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute | Institute of Organic Farming | Westerau | Germany | |
| Karolina | Wleklik | karolina.wleklik@amu.edu.pl | autophagy, carbon starvation, embryo, Glycine max (soybean; soya bean), Lupinus albus (white lupin), Lupinus mutabilis | Adam Mickiewicz University | Department of Plant Physiology | Poznań | Poland | |
| Stefano | Zanotto | stefano.zanotto@nmbu.no | site | Genetics, genomics and breeding of grain and forage legumes | NMBU | Genetics and Plant Breeding | Ås | Norway |
| Riccardo | Zustovi | riccardo.zustovi@ugent.be | Mixed intercropping, Vicia faba (faba bean; vetch), Phaseolus, breeding, grain yield, protein content | Universiteit Gent - UGENT | Plants and crops | Gent | Belgium |
Mentioned members:
The following scientists are also member of the ILS:
Ana Álvarez-Fernández, Richard Ansong Omari, Chrizelle Beukes, Robbe Bombeke, Kara Boyd, Pilar Brun Esquiliche, Wei Chang, Eva María Córdoba Jiménez, Chiara Delvento, Katrin Dietrich, Dorte Bodin Dresbøll, Allison Fletcher, Sonia García Méndez, Clara Isabel González-Verdejo, Natalia Gutierrez Leiva, Jungmin Ha, Miranda Haus, Camila Hill, Noah Jendrasheske, Tae-Hwan Jun, Linda Kaergaard Nielsen, Audrey Kalil, Umut Kartal, Beat Keller, Sebastian Kussmann, Henri Laugel, Almudena Lázaro Lázaro, Macarena Maria Martin, Irene Martinez Fernandez, Simon Michelmore, Brooke Micke, Frédéric Muel, James Muir, Ganga Rao Nadigatla, Dina Najjar, Yara Noureddine, Chuks Francis Ogbonnaya, Olli Pitkänen, Rajib Podder, Lorenzo Raggi, Penny Roberts, Jorge Rodríguez-Celma, Garry Rosewarne, Matilde Sanches, Francisco Sanchez Rodriguez, Lennart Scheer, Charles Spillane, Sina Stepczynski, Quinn Sturby, Anthony David Swan, Merili Toom, Andrea Tosoroni, Samson Ugwuanyi, Marloes Van Loon, Albert Vandenberg, Seraina Vonzun, Laura Vottonen, Tomke Susanne Wacker, Dylan Wallman, Ahmed Omar Warsame, Aryana Zardkoohi-Burgos, Noel Ellis, Amira Beroueg, Aladdin Hamwieh, Anne Moussart, Alba Pacheco Moreno, Alessia Losa, María Alonso Ayuso, Ana María González Fernández, Ana Isabel González – Cordero;González Cordero, Ana Maria Torres Romero, Aude Tixier, Pedro Piedras, Rebecca Howard, Jana Biová, Bjørn Dueholm, Claire Barbet-Massin, Cecilia Hammenhag, Cristina Ferrandiz, Christine Watson, Cristina Delgado Andrade, Davide Panzeri, Radmila Dostálová, Dulce Nombre Rodríguez Navarro;Rodriguez, Edina Kare, Elsa Mecha, Francisco Mendes, Herwart Böhm, Inger Bertelsen, Ingrid Lambein, Ignacio Prusen Mota, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz;Roldan-Ruiz, James Manson, Jana Sekaninová, Junsheng Zhou, Antonín Kintl, Letice Gonçalves, Godelieve (Lieve) Ongena, Lorena Barea Martín-Castaño, Michaela Ludvíková, Mária Škrabišová, Maria Jesús Delgado, María del Carmen Marin Manzano, Maria Jurado Cañas, Marko Petek, Nadim Tayeh, Ning Wang, Nicolas Rispail, Pedro Casquero, Roberto Papa, Rachid Mentag, Raquel Olías Sánchez, Rita Marques, Rafael Rubio de Casas, Sabine Banizza;Banniza, Sanu Arora, Soledad Traubenik, Sophie Duchesne, Sara Rodríguez Mena, Syama Chatterton, Tawffiq Istanbuli, Tracey Rayner, Oldrich Trneny, Veronique Biarnes, Valeria Negri, Virginie Bourion