Progressing the breeding of lupin
Fred Eickmeyer, Karolina Susek, Donal Murphy-Bokern, Helge Flüß
23.07.2026
Lupins play an important role in European agriculture for food and feed protein production, especially in regions with poor sandy soils and frequent pre-summer drought. In the Legume Generation project, the Lupin Innovation Community (LUPIC) works together to improve grain yield and yield stability, which is urgently needed to serve farmers´ needs. Since the genepool of sweet lupins is genetically very narrow, the LUPIC approach is to develop new/better traits from bitter lupins to finally breed sweet lupin cultivars.
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Fred Eickmeyer, Karolina Susek, Donal Murphy-Bokern, Helge Flüß
Legume Generation (Boosting innovation in breeding for the next generation of legume crops for Europe) has received funding from the European Union through Horizon Europe under grant agreement No 101081329 and co-funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee. It also receives support from the governments of Switzerland and New Zealand.
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