The project’s results help improve the competitiveness of organic broccoli, snap beans and tomato. About 2000 accessions of the BRESOV core collections and breeding sets of the three species, were genotyped and phenotyped. 274 genotypes (pre-breeding/ breeding lines, OHMs) of broccoli, snap bean and tomato were selected and released, some of which are ready to be registered in the EU Catalogue of the organic varieties (EU Reg. 848/2018). For these new materials interaction with the environmental conditions of several European countries evaluated allow the improvement of crop agronomic performances and production quality. BRESOV provided recommendations to breeders, growers and farmers on pre-breeding/ breeding lines and OHMs, adapted locally rather than globally to organic farming. Future organic breeding in the EU countries and abroad will benefit also of 275 new genotyping tools (molecular markers, QTLs and genes) detected, from improved resistance to several biotic (e.g. drought, salinity, high temperature etc.) and abiotic stresses (tomato: Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis lycopersici, TSWV and ToMV; broccoli: Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, Alternaria spp. and Down mildew; snap bean: Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. phaseolicola and Fusarium solani f.sp phaseoli), and the organoleptic (size, solid soluble, acidity, firmness, chromatic parameters) and nutraceutical (polyphenols, glucosinolates, carotenoids, volatile compounds, antioxidant capacity) quality of the correspondent products. BRESOV released protocols on genotypes, sowing date, crop density, fruit harvesting, bioinoculants, plant nutrition, to increase the amount and quality of the seed production of the three crops, as well as for detecting and protecting seeds against eleven key diseases. BRESOV’s results will increase availability of high-quality organic seeds and strengthen accessibility and confidence in current and future organic agriculture systems within the EU and abroad. BRESOV also thrived to enlarge the adaptability of broccoli, snap bean and tomato crops in organic vegetable farming systems and improve the interaction between the new cultivars and the soil microbiome. BRESOV established useful partnerships among breeders, nurseries, farmers, agriculture and food industries, consumers and researchers (multi-actor approach), with events disseminating the project’s outcomes, boosting competitiveness of brassica, snap bean and tomato crops. BRESOV actively collaborated with H2020 projects LIVESEEDS and ECOBREED.
