What is it about? Environmental stress and cultivation conditions can modify the composition and spatial distribution of proteins and bioactive metabolites within camelina seeds, affecting overall seed quality. Although abiotic stress may increase metabolites that negatively impact nutritional or organoleptic properties, these compounds are also essential for seed stress defence mechanisms. OLEOPROTID project, financed by…
What is it about? Future food systems must adapt to climate change by shifting toward sustainable protein sources, including plant-based options, while preserving nutritional quality. The project evaluates camelina (Camelina sativa) as a resilient, nutrient-rich crop with high ω3 oil and protein potential for diversified agriculture. The GERMOLEOPRO project, financed by the Carnot institutes Plant2Pro…
What is it about? Genetics of adaptation to novel environmental challenges. A4: Genetic basis and ecological importance of adaptive myxospermic strategies to drought stress in the Camelineae tribe and the Brassicaceae family. This project will evaluate the ecological role of seed mucilage composition and link the trait to seed quality and germination in Camelina sativa, a species adapted to semiarid…
What is it about? Boosting sustainable diversification in farming systems CARinata and CameIINA to boost the sustainable diversification in EU farming systems. CARINA project will focus on innovative farming systems for these crops, which can grow almost everywhere in Europe and Northern Africa. They also provide high quality oils that will be transformed into innovative…
Networking activity Joint workshop on best practice of data sampling and management. Date 26/04/2021 Link News
Networking activity Project presentation in final event of PANACEA. Date 22/02/2021 Link News
What is it about? In the actual scenario of lack of vegetable raw materials for animal feeding and scarcity of crop alternatives for farmers, the rationale behind Argento project is a win-win story. Camelina represents an alternative oilcrop to be introduced into cereal-based cropping systems, able to grow with low environmental footprint and to source…
Networking activity AIT presented UNTWIST at the ADAPT Project Meeting and The coordinator of ADAPT has been approached and agreed to serve as EEAB member. Date 12/2020
Finca El Encín, Alcalá de Henares, Spain. last week. 54 camelina varieties will be tested in the semiarid climate of the Iberian Peninsula. @midra_i @CamelinaCompEsp
For the characterization of the camelina core collection under field conditions in @UNTWIST_H2020, 54 camelina lines have been sown in 4 replicates at the experimental farm of University of Bologna (Cadriano, Italy) #unibomagazine #unibologna
What is it about? Camelina is emerging as an alternative oilseed crop due to its resistance to adverse growth conditions and the quality of its oil for nutrition or biofuel production. Camelina oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and in particular omega-3 fatty acids that are renowned for their health benefits. Joint the project…
What is it about? This 4.5-year project aims at reducing the dependence of Europe’s oleochemical industry on imported plant oils by turning camelina and crambe into profitable, sustainable, multipurpose, non-transgenic European oil crops. The European oleochemical industry currently relies on imported coconut and palm kernel oils and fatty acids and on castor oil as sources…
