LegumeLegacy – Optimising multiple benefits of grass, legume and herb mixtures in crop rotations: modelling mechanisms and legacy effects

Project Information

LegumeLegacy

Grant agreement ID: 101072579

DOI

10.3030/101072579

EC signature date 30 June 2022

Start date 1 February 2023

End date 31 January 2027

Funded under

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 2 224 461,60

Coordinated by

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Ireland

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management Plan initial and reviewed every annually (1)

Data Management Plan submitted to the REA (updated towards the end of the project if needed)

Data Management Plan initial and reviewed every annually (2)

Data Management Plan submitted to the REA (updated towards the end of the project if needed)

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Launch LegumeLegacy website

Publications

Conference proceedings (9)

Effect of sward diversity on herbage quantity and quality of managed grasslands on peat

Author(s): E.S.M. Baekelmans, N.J. Hoekstra, P.W.L. Janssen, J.De Wit, J.C.J. Groot, and N. Van Eekeren
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_017

Multi-species swards outperform perennial ryegrass monocultures under drought

Author(s): R. Valencia, C.K. Reynolds, and J.P. Hammond
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_046

The effects of species and genetic diversity on yield in grass-legume swards

Author(s): C.H. Wang, C. Brophy, and J.A. Finn
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_104

Grass-legume mixtures can reduce nitrogen fertiliser requirement: a three-year, eight-site study

Author(s): D. Hu, J.A. Finn, O. Huguenin-Elie, A. Lüscher, M. Orešković, M. Suter, and C. Brophy
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_042

Effect of sward diversity richness on photosynthesis parameters of selected grassland species

Author(s): M. Orešković, B. Golińska, M. Czerwiński, and P. Goliński
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_036

Exploring the role of functional traits to explain performances in multispecies grasslands

Author(s): M.D. Kaspereit, J.W. Nyaga, S.N. Reddy Meka, J. Eriksen, and C.S. Malisch
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_048

Grassland species yield shaped by the timing of compound drought-heatwave events

Author(s): S. Moracchioli Philadelphi, C.S. Malisch, J. Eriksen, and P. Högy
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_024

Impact of multi-species swards on in vitro digestibility and methane production

Author(s): M. Orešković, B. Golińska, P. Sidoruk, A. Cieślak, and P. Goliński
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_117

Nitrogen leaching in perennial forage- and annual crop-based rotations with different nitrogen sources

Author(s): J.W. Nyaga, M.-N. Thivierge, G. Jégo, J.A. Lafond , J. Tremblay, M. Thériault, I. Royer, É. Maillard, M.-C. Leewis, J. Eriksen, C.S. Malisch, G. Bélanger, D.A. Angers, and M.H.
Published in: EGF Symposium 2025 - Proceedings
Publisher: Wageningen Academic
DOI: 10.1163/9789004751163_110

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Effects of Grassland Ley Sward Diversity on Soil Potassium and Magnesium Forms in Two Contrasting Sites

Author(s): Matej Orešković, Waldemar Spychalski, Barbara Golińska, Piotr Goliński
Published in: Agronomy, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2073-4395
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/AGRONOMY15122815

Multispecies grasslands produce more yield from lower nitrogen inputs across a climatic gradient

Author(s): James O’Malley, John A. Finn, Carsten S. Malisch, Matthias Suter, Sebastian T. Meyer, Giovanni Peratoner, Marie-Noëlle Thivierge, Diego Abalos, Paul R. Adler, T. Martijn Bezemer, Alistair D. Black,
Published in: Science, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADY0764

Grasses, legumes and forbs respond differently to compound drought-heatwave events during establishment

Author(s): Sophia Moracchioli Philadelphi, Carsten Stefan Malisch, Jørgen Eriksen, Petra Högy
Published in: Plant and Soil, 2025, ISSN 0032-079X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11104-025-07440-4