Intelligent Collections of Food Legumes Genetic Resources for European Agrofood Systems

Project Information

INCREASE

Grant agreement ID: 862862

DOI

10.3030/862862

Project closed

EC signature date 2 May 2020

Start date 1 May 2020

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost

€ 8 826 824,50

EU contribution

€ 6 999 999,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE
Italy

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Deliverables

Other (3)

Central data management infrastructure implemented
Final computer vision & deep learning library released
Blockchain approach established and distributed infrastructure released

Documents, reports (7)

Stakeholder Consortium agreement

Stakeholder Consortium Agreement

Workflow on place for assignment of DOIs as unique identifiert

Workflow on place for assignment of DOIs as unique identifiers

DNA available for all the SSD lines
Development of different core collections (R-CORE, T-CORE, H-CORE) for all the species

Development of different core collections RCORE TCORE HCORE for all the species

Harmonized conservation management guidelines
Guidelines for data management in genebanks
Phenotypic data from 1.000 common bean lines evaluated by citizens

Phenotypic data from 1,000 common bean lines evaluated by citizens

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Public project website
Audio-visual material on food legumes GenRes

Audiovisual material on food legumes GenRes

Audio-visual material for citizen science experiment

Audiovisual material for citizen science experiment

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (38)

Intelligent Characterization of Lentil Genetic Resources: Evolutionary History, Genetic Diversity of Germplasm, and the Need for Well-Represented Collections

Author(s): Azalea Guerra-García, Tania Gioia, Eric von Wettberg, Giuseppina Logozzo, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi, Kirstin E. Bett
Published in: Current Protocols, 2021, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.134

Towards the Development, Maintenance and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single-Seed-Descent Genetic Resources for Chickpea

Author(s): Lorenzo Rocchetti, Tania Gioia, Giuseppina Logozzo, Creola Brezeanu, Luis Guasch Pereira, Lucía De la Rosa, Stefania Marzario, Alice Pieri, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh, Karolina Susek, Douglas R. Cook, Rajeev K. Varshney, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Aladdin Hamwieh, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa
Published in: Current Protocols, 2022, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.371

Revival of traditional agricultural systems – A multidisciplinary on‐farm survey of maize‐bean intercropping reveals unexpected competition effects on beans

Author(s): Noa Vazeux‐Blumental, Laura Mathieu, Théo Trabac, Carine Palaffre, Bernard Lagardère, Maryse Carraretto, Cyril Bauland, Martine Le Guilloux, Christine Paysant Le Roux, José Caïus, Anne Marmagne, Jérôme Enjalbert, Timothée Flutre, Edith Le Cadre, Virginie Parnaudeau, Daniel Muller, Yvan Moënne‐Loccoz, Domenica Manicacci, Maud I. Tenaillon
Published in: PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 1755-1770, ISSN 2572-2611
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.70049

Farming system shapes rhizosphere microbiota and root gene expression in common bean

Author(s): Marta Suarez-Fernandez, Carmen García-Fernández, Juan José Ferreira, Ana Campa
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2026.1749874

Recent Advances in Molecular Tools and Pre-Breeding Activities in White Lupin (Lupinus albus)

Author(s): Andrea Tosoroni, Valerio Di Vittori, Laura Nanni, Evan Musari, Simone Papalini, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Alice Pieri, Sofia Ghitarrini, Karolina Susek, Roberto Papa
Published in: Plants, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 914, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/plants14060914

Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites

Author(s): Saleh Alseekh and Alisdair R. Fernie
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102335

Towards Development, Maintenance, and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single-Seed-Descent Genetic Resources for Lupins

Author(s): Magdalena Kroc, Magdalena Tomaszewska, Katarzyna Czepiel, Elena Bitocchi, Markus Oppermann, Kerstin Neumann, Luis Guasch, Elisa Bellucci, Saleh Alseekh, Andreas Graner, Alisdair R. Fernie, Roberto Papa, Karolina Susek
Published in: Current Protocols, 2021, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.191

Application of non-destructive MARVIN and NIR seed screening of pre-breeding material: A case study on common bean ( <i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i> ), white lupin ( <i>Lupinus albus</i> ) and Andean lupin ( <i>L</i> . <i>mutabilis</i> )

Author(s): Barbara Pipan, Lovro Sinkovič, Mohamed Neji, Vladimir Meglič, Karolina Susek, Magdalena Kroc, Elisa Bellucci, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa
Published in: Seed Science and Technology, Issue 53, 2025, Page(s) 51-72, ISSN 0251-0952
Publisher: International Seed Testing Association
DOI: 10.15258/sst.2025.53.1.06

Establishment and phenotypic characterization of genetically diverse core collections of Lupinus albus

Author(s): Umesh Kumar Tanwar, Magdalena Tomaszewska, Katarzyna Czepiel, Mohamed Neji, Humaira Jamil, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Alice Pieri, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Barbara Pipan, Vladimir Meglič, Markus Oppermann, Magdalena Kroc, Roberto Papa, Karolina Susek
Published in: BMC Plant Biology, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1471-2229
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-025-07115-3

The INCREASE project: Intelligent Collections of food-legume genetic resources for European agrofood systems

Author(s): Elisa Bellucci, Orlando Mario Aguilar, Saleh Alseekh, Kirstin Bett, Creola Brezeanu, Douglas Cook, Lucía De la Rosa, Massimo Delledonne, Denise F. Dostatny, Juan J Ferreira, Valérie Geffroy, Sofia Ghitarrini, Magdalena Kroc, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Giuseppina Logozzo, Mario Marino, Tristan Mary-Huard, Phil McClean, Vladimir Meglič, Tamara Messer, Frédéric Muel, Laura Nanni, Kerstin Neumann, Filip
Published in: The Plant Journal, 2021, ISSN 1365-313X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15472

Agroecological genomics and participatory science: optimizing crop mixtures for agricultural diversification

Author(s): Chiara Santamarina, Laura Mathieu, Elena Bitocchi, Alice Pieri, Elisa Bellucci, Valerio Di Vittori, Karolina Susek, Federico Scossa, Laura Nanni, Roberto Papa
Published in: Trends in Plant Science, Issue 30, 2025, Page(s) 1211-1225, ISSN 1360-1385
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2025.04.008

Challenges and Opportunities behind the Use of Herbaria in Paleogenomics Studies

Author(s): Simone Papalini, Valerio Di Vittori, Alice Pieri, Marina Allegrezza, Giulia Frascarelli, Laura Nanni, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Tania Gioia, Luis Guasch Pereira, Karolina Susek, Maud Tenaillon, Kerstin Neumann, Roberto Papa
Published in: Plants, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 3452, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/plants12193452

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Enrichment Coupled to Nanopore Sequencing Provides a Valuable Tool for the Precise Reconstruction of Large Genomic Target Regions

Author(s): Giulia Lopatriello, Simone Maestri, Massimiliano Alfano, Roberto Papa, Valerio Di Vittori, Luca De Antoni, Elisa Bellucci, Alice Pieri, Elena Bitocchi, Massimo Delledonne, Marzia Rossato
Published in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, ISSN 1422-0067
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24021076

Genomic insights into genetic diversity and seed coat color change in common bean composite populations

Author(s): Eva Plestenjak, Mohamed Neji, Lovro Sinkovič, Vladimir Meglič, Barbara Pipan
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1523745

Uncovering Phenotypic Variation in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.): Insights from the INCREASE Project

Author(s): Hourieh Tavakoli Hasanaklou, Lovro Sinkovič, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Peter Dolničar, Barbara Pipan
Published in: Plants, Issue 15, 2026, Page(s) 1249, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/plants15081249

First Report of <i>Colletotrichum incanum</i> Causing Leaf Spots on Common Bean in Europe (Slovenia)

Author(s): H.-J. Schroers, J. Zajc, B. Pipan, V. Meglič, E. Kovačec, M. Žerjav
Published in: Plant Disease, Issue 108, 2024, Page(s) 2231, ISSN 0191-2917
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
DOI: 10.1094/pdis-02-24-0490-pdn

CRISPR-Cas9-based repeat depletion for the high-throughput genotyping of complex plant genomes

Author(s): Marzia Rossato, Luca Marcolungo, Luca De Antoni, Giulia Lopatriello, Elisa Bellucci, Gaia Cortinovis, Giulia Frascarelli, Laura Nanni, Elena Biotcchi, Valerio Di Vittori, Leonardo Vincenzi, Filippo Lucchini, Kirstin E Bett, Larissa Remsay, David Konkin, Massimo Delledonne and Roberto Papa
Published in: Genome Research, 2023, ISSN 1940-3402
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor
DOI: 10.1101/gr.277628.122

Transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis reveals that symbiotic nitrogen fixation enhances drought resistance in common bean

Author(s): Cristina M. López, Saleh Alseekh, Fernando Torralbo, Félix J. Martínez Rivas, Alisdair R. Fernie, Francisco Amil-Ruiz, Josefa M. Alamillo
Published in: Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023, ISSN 1465-3915
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad083

Nodulation competitiveness and diversification of symbiosis genes in common beans from the American centers of domestication

Author(s): O. Mario Aguilar, Mónica M. Collavino & Ulises Mancini
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08720-0

Towards the Development, Maintenance, and Standardized Phenotypic Characterization of Single-Seed-Descent Genetic Resources for Common Bean

Author(s): Gaia Cortinovis, Markus Oppermann, Kerstin Neumann, Andreas Graner, Tania Gioia, Marco Marsella, Saleh Alseekh, Alisdair R. Fernie, Roberto Papa, Elisa Bellucci, Elena Bitocchi
Published in: Current Protocols, 2021, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1002/cpz1.133

The I gene defines a dynamic NLR cluster conferring broad potyvirus resistance in common bean

Author(s): Juan C. Alvarez-Díaz, Alvaro Soler-Garzón, Gianluca Teano, Marion Verdenaud, Alexandre Roudaut, Christophe Klopp, Maria-Victoria Préjean, Stéphanie Pflieger, Timothy G. Porch, Cécile Desbiez, David Latrasse, Moussa Benhamed, Etienne Delannoy, Andrea Pedrosa-Harand, Ariane Gratias, Phillip N. Miklas, Valérie Geffroy
Published in: Nature Communications, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73550-x

Nutritional value and environmental footprint of muffins made with green-lentil flour

Author(s): Rafaela Geraldo, Carla S. Santos, David Styles, Sérgio Sousa, Elisabete Pinto, Delminda Neves, Marta W. Vasconcelos
Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Issue 477, 2024, Page(s) 143826, ISSN 0959-6526
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143826

Screening for resistance to four fungal diseases and associated genomic regions in a snap bean diversity panel

Author(s): Ana Campa, Valérie Geffroy, Elena Bitocchi, Alicia Noly, Roberto Papa, Juan José Ferreira
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1386877

<scp>GWAS</scp> identifies regulators of seed and leaf morphology in common bean, revealing <scp>OFP5</scp> as a major seed size determinant

Author(s): Julia von Steimker, Mustafa Bulut, Gregory Pozhvanov, Susan Bergmann, Regina Wendenburg, Yuming Sun, Feng Zhu, Alice Pieri, Giulia Frascarelli, Laura Nanni, Elisa Bellucci, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh
Published in: The Plant Journal, Issue 126, 2026, ISSN 0960-7412
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.70909

metaGE: Investigating genotype x environment interactions through GWAS meta-analysis

Author(s): Annaïg De Walsche, Alexis Vergne, Renaud Rincent, Fabrice Roux, Stéphane Nicolas, Claude Welcker, Sofiane Mezmouk, Alain Charcosset, Tristan Mary-Huard
Published in: PLOS Genetics, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) e1011553, ISSN 1553-7404
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011553

Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution

Author(s): Hélène Fréville, Germain Montazeaud, Emma Forst, Jacques David, Roberto Papa, Maud I. Tenaillon
Published in: Evolutionary Applications, 2022, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/eva.13390

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated protein and hairy roots a perfect match for gene functional analysis and crop improvement

Author(s): Josefa M. Alamillo, Cristina M. López, Félix J. Martínez Rivas, Fernando Torralbo, Mustafa Bulut, Saleh Alseekh
Published in: Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023, ISSN 1879-0429
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2022.102876

Legume byproducts as ingredients for food applications: Preparation, nutrition, bioactivity, and techno-functional properties

Author(s): Ancuta Nartea, Anastasiya Kuhalskaya, Benedetta Fanesi, Oghenetega Lois Orhotohwo, Karolina Susek, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Valerio Di Vittori, Elena Bitocchi, Deborah Pacetti, Roberto Papa
Published in: Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2023, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.13137

Engaging Precision Phenotyping to Scrutinize Vegetative Drought Tolerance and Recovery in Chickpea Plant Genetic Resources

Author(s): Madita Lauterberg, Henning Tschiersch, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi, Kerstin Neumann
Published in: Plants, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 2866, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/plants12152866

Genetic erosion within the Fabada dry bean market class revealed by high‐throughput genotyping

Author(s): Maria Jurado, Carmen García‐Fernández, Ana Campa, Juan Jose Ferreira
Published in: The Plant Genome, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1940-3372
Publisher: Crop Science Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20379

The evolutionary history of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) revealed by chloroplast and nuclear genomes analysis

Author(s): Giulia Frascarelli, Teresa R. Galise, Nunzio D’Agostino, Donata Cafasso, Salvatore Cozzolino, Gaia Cortinovis, Francesca Sparvoli, Elisa Bellucci, Valerio Di Vittori, Laura Nanni, Alice Pieri, Marzia Rossato, Leonardo Vincenzi, Andrea Benazzo, Massimo Delledonne, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa
Published in: Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Issue 138, 2025, ISSN 0040-5752
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-025-04832-z

A comprehensive metabolomics and lipidomics atlas for the legumes common bean, chickpea, lentil and lupin

Author(s): Mustafa Bulut, Regina Wendenburg, Elena Bitocchi, Elisa Bellucci, Magdalena Kroc, Tania Gioia, Karolina Susek, Roberto Papa, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh
Published in: The Plant Journal, Issue 116, 2023, Page(s) 1152-1171, ISSN 0960-7412
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16329

Adaptive gene loss in the common bean pan-genome during range expansion and domestication

Author(s): Gaia Cortinovis, Leonardo Vincenzi, Robyn Anderson, Giovanni Marturano, Jacob Ian Marsh, Philipp Emanuel Bayer, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Giulia Frascarelli, Giovanna Lanzavecchia, Alice Pieri, Andrea Benazzo, Elisa Bellucci, Valerio Di Vittori, Laura Nanni, Juan José Ferreira Fernández, Marzia Rossato, Orlando Mario Aguilar, Peter Laurent Morrell, Monica Rodriguez, Tania Gioia, Kerstin Neumann, Juan C
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51032-2

The milpa, from Mesoamerica to present days, a multicropping traditional agricultural system serving agroecology

Author(s): Noa Vazeux-Blumental, Domenica Manicacci, Maud Tenaillon
Published in: Comptes Rendus. Biologies, Issue 347, 2024, Page(s) 159-173, ISSN 1768-3238
Publisher: Académie des sciences
DOI: 10.5802/crbiol.164

Implementation of theoretical non-photochemical quenching (NPQ(T)) to investigate NPQ of chickpea under drought stress with High-throughput Phenotyping

Author(s): Madita Lauterberg, Henning Tschiersch, Yusheng Zhao, Markus Kuhlmann, Ingo Mücke, Roberto Papa, Elena Bitocchi, Kerstin Neumann
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-63372-6

The unexplored diversity of rough-seeded lupins provides rich genomic resources and insights into lupin evolution

Author(s): Karolina Susek, Leonardo Vincenzi, Magdalena Tomaszewska, Magdalena Kroc, Edoardo Franco, Emanuela Cosentino, Antonina Rita Limongi, Umesh Kumar Tanwar, Humaira Jamil, Matthew Nicholas Nelson, Philipp E. Bayer, David Edwards, Roberto Papa, Massimo Delledonne, Scott A. Jackson
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58531-w

Selection and adaptive introgression guided the complex evolutionary history of the European common bean

Author(s): Lorenzo Rocchetti, Tania Gioia, Giuseppina Logozzo, Creola Brezeanu, Luis Guasch Pereira, Lucía De la Rosa, Stefania Marzario, Alice Pieri, Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh, Karolina Susek, Douglas R. Cook, Rajeev K. Varshney, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Aladdin Hamwieh, Elena Bitocchi, Roberto Papa
Published in: Current Protocols, 2022, ISSN 2691-1299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37332-z

Oat and lentil-based muffins as a functional food: Enhanced glycaemia control, anti-inflammatory effects, and intestinal epithelium integrity

Author(s): Rafaela Geraldo, Manuela Machado, Sara Silva, Simão Pinho, Alexandra Gouveia, Delminda Neves, Elisabete Pinto, Manuela Pintado, Marta W. Vasconcelos
Published in: Journal of Functional Foods, Issue 135, 2026, Page(s) 107101, ISSN 1756-4646
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2025.107101