We would like to connect/ or to contribute the team working on minor crops and legumes. We have the capacity to actively participate in both sub-topics.
Our general expertise aligns with agroecology, breeding for resilience to various biotic and abiotic stresses, variety testing, and investigating ecosystem services, nutrients, roots, microorganisms, and macrofauna. We also interact with farmers, utilizing a living lab approach and establishing new on-farm experiments (within Horizon projects).

Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (LAMMC) conducts breeding programmes for major field and garden crops. More than 490 varieties of field, orchard and garden crops have been developed in the branches of the Centre since the beginning of plant breeding in Lithuania (1922). Many of them are successfully grown in Lithuania, neighbouring and other countries. The developed varieties are included in the Lithuanian National List of Plant Varieties and in the EU Common Catalogue of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species.

The Department of Plant Nutrition and Agroecology: investigates productivity, usage, cultivar potential of legumes and minor crops and introduction of new species under the climate change; adaptation and stressors; nitrogen fixation and symbiosis of microorganisms with plants; Soil biodiversity in an organic and agroecological systems.