Scientific articles & tools

Conference contributions

• Abstract Booklet: Symposium on Breeding for Diversification February 2018
• Strategic use of virulence pattern to develop genetic markers for resistance to common bunt (Tilletia caries) in wheat (Borgen, A.; Backes, G.; Müller, K-J.; Spieß, H.; 2018)
• Abstract Booklet: 4th World Congress of Latvian Scientists, Section of Agriculture and Forest Sciences 2018 
• Ločmele, I., Legzdiņa, L., Gaile, Z., Kronberga, A. (2018). Yield stability of barley mixtures and populations. In: Baćanović-Šišić, J., Dennenmoser, D., Finck, M. (Eds.), Symposium on breeding for diversification. Abstract booklet, 19th–21st February 2018, Witzenhausen, Germany, 36-38.
• Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (Ed.) (2018) Symposium on organic breeding activities. Vorträge an der ersten Biopflanzenzüchtungstagung am FiBL Schweiz. Proceedings of 1. Biopflanzenzüchtungstagung, Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau FiBL, CH-Frick, 19. Juli 2018.
• González, V.; Cifre, H.; Moreno, J.L.; Fita, A.; M.D. Raigón; Rodríguez-Burruezo A. 2017. Fitomejoramiento participativo: Proyecto EU LIVESEED. 26th Jornadas Técnicas Soc. Esp. Agric. Ecológica (SEAE) (Orihuela, Spain, 19-20 October 2017). Libro de Resúmenes (Book of abstracts): pp 245.
• Mikó P, Megyeri M, Molnár-Láng M, Rakszegi M, Vida G (2018): Selection of winter cereals for organic agriculture. In: Langin T et. al. (eds.): Breeding cereals for sustainable agriculture. Book of Abstracts – EUCARPIA Cereal Section Meeting 19-22 March 2018. INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 122.
• J. Alkemade, C. M. Arncken, R. T. Veogele, M. R. Finckh, P. Hohmann, M. Messmer (2018). Vorstufenselektion auf Anthraknosetoleranz bei Weisser Lupine; Nationale Bioforschungstagung Nov. 2018, Switzerland, Frick.
• Koutis, Konstantinos; Francois, Warlop; Nicolaus, Bollinger; Steinemann, Beatrice; Rodriguez Buruezzo, Adrian; Mendes Moreira, Piedro and Messmer, Monika (2018) Perspectives on European organic apple breeding and propagation under the frame of LIVESEED Project. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Organic Fruit -Growing from February 19 to February 21, 2018 at Hohenheim, Germany, pp. 104-107.
• Alkemade, Joris; Messmer, Monika M.; Finckh, Maria R.; Vögele, Ralf T. und Hohmann, Pierre (2018) Quantifying resistance and lifestyle assessments of Colletotrichum in lupin. Poster at: PSC symposium, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 05-12-2018.
• Borgen, Anders; Backes, Gunter; Müller, Karl-Josef and Spieß, Hartmut (2018) Strategic use of virulence pattern to develop genetic markers for resistance to common bunt (Tilletia caries) in wheat. In: Hole, David (Ed.) Abstract of the XX international Workshop on Smuts and bunts., Utah State University, pp. 24-25.
• Bacanovic, Jelena; Dennenmoser, Dominic and Finckh, Maria R. (Eds.) (2018) Symposium on breeding for diversification. Proceedings of EUCARPIA – A Joint Meeting of the EUCARPIA Section Organic and Low – Input Agriculture, ECO – PB, DIVERSify, INSUSFAR, HealthyMinorCereals, LIVESEED, ReMIX and Wheatamix, Witzenhausen, 19. – 20. February 2018.
• Almenar L, Cifre H, Gonzálvez V, Maixent F (2018). Promoviendo el uso de semillas ecológicas procedentes de cultivos ecológicos adaptados. Proyecto Liveseed. Cuaderno de Resúmenes (Book of abstracts) del XIII Congreso de Agricultura Ecológica: “Sistemas alimentarios agroecológicos y cambio climático”. Logroño, 14-17 november 2018. Ed. SEAE. pp 157.
• Weinhappel, M. (2017) LIVESEED – A project boosting varieties and seeds in organic farming funded by EU. In: Vereinigung der Pflanzenzüchter und Saatgutkaufleute Österreichs (Ed.) Tagungsband der 68. Jahrestagung der Vereinigung der Pflanzenzüchter und Saatgutkaufleute Österreichs, 20.-22. November 2017, Raumberg-Gumpenstein, p. 63.
• Wille, Lukas; Hohmann, Pierre; Messmer, Monika and Studer, Bruno (2017) Improving disease resistance of pea – clues from plant-microbe interactions. Poster at: WFSC Symposium 2017, ETH, Zürich, 25.10.2017.
• Gil-Marqués, M.A.; Figueroa, M.; Hurtado, R.; Ballester, R.; Figueroa-Núnez, M.; Aguilar, F.; Durán-Salguero, O.; Macias-González, F.; Raigón, M.D. and Rodríguez-Burruezo, A. (2018) Programa de fitomejoramiento participativo en tomate en Valencia y Cádiz: Proyecto LIVESEED. In: Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecológica / Sociedad Espanola de Agroecología (SEAE) (Ed.) Resúmenes: XIII Congreso SEAE “Sistemas alimentarios agroecologicos y cambio climatico”, p. 134.
• Rodríguez-Burruezo, A.; Gonzálvez, V.; Cifre, H.; Moreno, JL.; Raigón, MD and Fita, A (2017) Fitomejoramoento participativo: Proyecto EU Liveseed. In: Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica / Sociedad Española de Agroecología (SEAE) (Ed.) Actas XXVI Jornadas Técnicas SEAE – X Seminario Agroecología, C. Climático y Agroturismo. “INNOVACIÓN AGROECOLÓGICA Y CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO”, 19 – 20 octubre 2017, Orihuela (Alicante) Spain, p. 245.
• Koutis, K., Warlop, F., Bolliger, N., Steinemann, B., Rodriguez Burruezo, A., Mendes Moreira, P. & Messmer, M. (2018). Proceedings of 4th Fruitculture symposium, Portugal, November 29-30, p.120.

Articles

• Kurrig M.; Schaefer F.; Aigner M.; Messmer M.(2018) Organic seed databases for increasing the transparency and use of organic seed in Europe 
• Mikó, P.; Vida, G.; Rakszegi, M.; Lafferty, J.; Lorentz, B.; Longin, F. and Megyeri, M. (2017) Performance and selection of winter durum wheat genotypes in different European conventional and organic fields. In: Cereal Research Communications, 45 (Suppl.), pp. 51-52.
• Gatzert, Xenia; Messmer, Monika; Schäfer, Freya; Klaiss, Matthias; Aigner, Magdalena; Kurrig, Magdalena and Mészáros, Dóra (2018) Seed databases boosting organic production. Rural Connections Magazine, Spring/Summer 2018 Edition, July 2018, KF-AN- (18-001), pp. 22-23.
• Wille L., Messmer, M.M., Studer, B., Hohmann, P. (2018) Insights to plant-microbe interactions provide opportunities to improve resistance breeding against root diseases in grain legumes. Plant Cell & Environment, Epub, pp. 1-21.
• Lammerts van Bueren, Edith T.; Struik, Paul C.; Eekeren, Nick van and Nuijten, Edwin (2018) Towards resilience through systems-based plant breeding. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 38 (42), pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-018-0522-6 
• Gonzálvez, V.; Cifre, H. and Raigón, M.D. (2018) El proyecto Liveseeds, las semillas tradicionales y los huertos urbanos ecológicos. In: Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecológica / Sociedad Espanola de Agroecología (SEAE) (Ed.) Resúmenes: III Congreso Estatal de Huertos Ecológicos Urbanos y Periurbanos “Ciudades que alimentan”, p. 53.
• Gunasekaran Mohanapriya, Revuru Bharadwaj, Carlos Noceda, José Hélio Costa, Sarma Rajeev Kumar, Ramalingam Sathishkumar, Karine Leitão Lima Thiers, Elisete Santos Macedo, Sofia Silva, Paolo Annicchiarico, Steven P.C. Groot, Jan Kodde, Aprajita Kumari, Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt (2019) Alternative Oxidase (AOX) Senses Stress Levels to Coordinate Auxin-Induced Reprogramming From Seed Germination to Somatic Embryogenesis—A Role Relevant for Seed Vigor Prediction and Plant Robustness Frontiers in Plant Science, September 2019, Volume 10, Article 1134. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01134
• Orsini, S.; Costanzo, A.; Solfanelli, F.; Zanoli, R.; Padel, S.; Messmer, M.M.; Winter, E.; Schaefer, F. Factors Affecting the Use of Organic Seed by Organic Farmers in Europe. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8540. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208540

MSc Thesis

• Brühl, Katharina (2017) Incentives and constraints for the use of organic seeds in organic farming: example of Capsicum annuum seeds in the Netherlands and Spain. Masters thesis, University College Dublin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Professur für Organischen Landbau, Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL Deutschland).
• Haesen, Esther (2018) Efficacy of non-synthetic seed treatments against anthracnose (Colletotrichum lupini) in white lupin. Masters thesis, Research Institut of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), CH-Frick ETH Zurich, CH-Zurich.

• Positivliste Zellfusionsfreie Sorten Gemüsebau (FiBL; Bioland; Naturland; Bio Austria; Bio Suisse; Demeter; BNN; 2018)