{"id":24,"date":"2022-02-14T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:17:22","slug":"project-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/project-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Project objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GENLEG aims to improve three legume crops of crucial importance for Italian feed systems, namely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>alfalfa<\/strong> alias lucerne, which is the most-grown perennial forage legume in Italy and Southern Europe;<\/li><li><strong>soybean,<\/strong> which is the most-grown feed grain legume and the main supplier of feed proteins in animal production systems of Italy and Southern Europe, with increasing importance also for food utilization;<\/li><li><strong>pea,<\/strong> considered of great perspective importance as a cool-season annual legume because of its high grain yield potential and flexibility of utilization (for feed or food grain, and for feed biomass).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>With reference to the above target crops and to <strong>crop yield, drought tolerance<\/strong> and <strong>protein content<\/strong> improvement, GENLEG aims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to <strong>validate and exploit genomic selection models<\/strong> that have already been developed in previous projects, and build and validate <strong>new models<\/strong> for traits that have not yet been studied;<\/li><li>for alfalfa and pea, to produce the first international comparisons of <strong>genomic selection vs. phenotypic selection<\/strong> in terms of actual genetic progress.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, GENLEG aims to <strong>develop candidate cultivars,<\/strong> as well as breeding populations for future genomic selections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENLEG aims to improve three legume crops of crucial importance for Italian feed systems, namely: alfalfa alias lucerne, which is the most-grown perennial forage legume in Italy and Southern Europe; soybean, which is the most-grown feed grain legume and the main supplier of feed proteins in animal production systems of Italy and Southern Europe, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genleg.crea.gov.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}