Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), The Spanish National Research Council, is the largest public research institution in Spain and one of the most renowned institutions in the European Research Area (ERA). It is affiliated to the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Secretary General for Research. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is a public research organisation under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. It forms part of the Spanish System for Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI) and conducts both basic and applied research across all areas of human knowledge. CSIC’s mission is to promote, coordinate, develop and disseminate multidisciplinary scientific and technological research in order to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and to economic, social and cultural development, as well as to provide training and to offer advice to public and private entities in these fields.
The research at CSIC is driven by its 130 institutes, which are spread across the country. Among these, the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (https://www.ias.csic.es) located at Córdoba is the one involved in this proposal. IAS-CSIC has wide experience in legume and cereal research, with a main focus on Mediterranean Agriculture, holding active germplasm collections and breeding programs and has a long history of international cooperation. The institute is organized in three departments, namely Agronomy, Crop protection and Plant breeding breeding departments