GRAIN LEGUMES AEP The magazine of the European Association for Grain Legume Research Le magazine de l’Association Européenne de recherche sur les Protéagineux ISSUE No. 43 September 2005 BackBack issuesissues No.27 Seed production No.28 for quality & healthy seeds Medicago truncatula No.29 Genetic model for legume crops? Feed Pulses: No.30 0 Opportunities for industry 0 Organic Farming 0 0 and grain legumes 0 2 0 r 0 0 e 2 t r 0 0 r a 2 0 e t u r r 0 q e a 2 t t u r s r q a e 1 t u r d q a n u d 2 r q 3 h t 4 No.31 Phaseolus beans: No.32 improvements for Europe? Grains Legumes No.33 in Central and Eastern Europe Degradability of grain legumes No.34 1 0 in ruminants Highlights from the 0 1 4th AEP Conference 2 0 r 0 1 e t 2 0 r 1 r 0 a e 0 2 t u r 0 r q a e t 2 t u s r r q 1 a e t u r d q n a u 2 d r q 3 h t 4 No.35 Grain legumes and No.36 human health Environmental benefits No.37 of grain legumes Genetic resources No.38 2 0 of grain legumes Use of synteny 0 2 for 2 genetic progress 0 r 2 0 e t 0 2 r 2 r 0 a e u 0 2 t r q 0 r a t e 2 t u s r r q 1 a e t u r d q n a u 2 d r q 3 h t 4 No.39 EU projects No.40 on grain legumes Highlights from Dijon 2004 No.41 (AEP-5 and ICLGG-2) The GRAIN LEGUMES No.42 4 Integrated Project Drought and saline 0 GRAIN LEGUMES AEP 4 0 The magazine of the European Association for Grain Legume Research stress Le magazine de l’Association Européenne de recherche sur les Protéagineux in legumes 0 2 ISSUE No. 39 2nd quarter 2004 5 0 r e 0 2 t r 5 0 r a e 0 2 t u r GRAIN LEGUMES AEP 0 the European Association for Grain Legume Research y The magazine of q a Le magazine de l’Association Européenne de recherche sur les Protéagineux r 2 ISSUE No. 42 June 2005 u a d q e u n n n 2 d u r a J J 3 EDITORIAL CONTENTS Carte blanche Modern and 4 Canada’s pulse industry targets North American food market (P. Watts) healthy food? News lthough grain legumes are 5 GL-TTP: a new technology transfer platform for the international grain common in Middle-Eastern, legume community (C. Goldstein) A Latin American and Asian 5 Final conference of the Healthy-Profood project (A. Arnoldi) diets, EU pulse consumption has 6 PCGIN: a new UK national project (JIC, UK) decreased markedly in recent 7 Toledo 2004: nutritionally active factors in legume seeds and oilseeds decades with only a minor come- (A. Pusztai, S. Bardocz, M. Muzquiz) back recently with the popularity of natural food and vegetarian cuisine. 8 First GLIP dissemination event – Progress in grain legume research for EU agriculture, Madrid, 27 October 2005 (AEP) Yet, these grains are a perfect 8 Faba bean 2006 (A. M. Torres) nutritive complement to cereals and there is scientific evidence that Research legume seeds and related 9 PhD theses components have a positive role to – Characterisation and mapping of quantitative trait loci related to pea play in the prevention of chronic yield (Pisum sativum L.) (M. Gawlowska) diseases. – Competition and complementarity in annual intercrops – the role of plant Should we learn to use exotic available nutrients (M. Klindt Andersen) recipes, modernise those used by 10 GERMINATE: a database designed to integrate genotypic, phenotypic and our grandmothers or create new genetic resources data (J. Lee, D. Marshall, A. Flavell) ones in order to reintroduce legume grains in our daily meals? Or should 12 Events & new books we develop innovative foods that contain home-produced plant-based Special report ingredients included during modern Food uses and health benefits of lupins food production procedures? In fact 13 Introduction grain legumes are versatile: a source of whole seeds, organic food items 14 The Healthy-Profood project: overview and main outputs (A. Arnoldi) and vegetable ingredients. 15 The perception of lupin in the European food industry (A. Schneider, K. Crépon, E. Fénart) The Healthy-Profood project has 16 Lupin food ingredients and lupin-based food products assessed the feasibility of using lupin (U. Knauf, A. Seger, C. Bagger, J. Bez) seeds to produce healthy foods. The possibility that lupin products could 18 What about the possible allergenicity of lupin? (H. Frøkiær) provide an alternative to soya 19 Tracing lupin in food ingredients and end-products products is the topic of the special (A. Scarafoni, E. Sironi, M. Duranti) report in this issue. 20 White lupin protein to prevent cardiovascular disease: experimental and We encourage you to join us at clinical evidence (C. R. Sirtori, M. Naruszewicz) the final conference of HEALTHY- Crops, uses & markets PROFOOD (free entry) in Milan in November to obtain further details. 22 Markets for French faba beans (B. Carrouée, D. Bouttet) 24 Current news (J.-P. Lacampagne, S. Kightley, G. Dubois, Pulse Australia) Anne SCHNEIDER Managing Editor Around the world 25 Towards molecular breeding for drought tolerance (J. Crouch, S. Dwivedi) GRAIN LEGUMES No. 43 – September 2005 3 Canada`s pulse industry targets North American food market anada is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of grain Clegumes, also known as pulses, or more specifically peas, lentils, beans and chickpeas. In 2004, pulse production reached a record 4.5 million tonnes (about 8% of global production) or 7% of arable crop production in Canada. Last year’s crop included 3.3 million tonnes of peas, 960,000 Peter Watts* tonnes of lentils, 220,000 tonnes of dry beans and 51,000 tonnes of chickpeas. As for many other crops, Canada relies heavily on export markets to sell pulses. On average, around 70% of Canada’s pulse crops are sold off shore each year. But given relatively low returns from the world market in recent years, Canada’s pulse growers have begun to look at opportunities in their own back yard. North America provides a large, potentially high- value market with ample room for growth in value-added food and industrial products derived from pulses. To translate opportunity into real outlets for their products, Canada’s producers have started to allocate more research dollars toward quality and utilisation to gain a better understanding of the functional properties of pulses, their potential applications as well as their nutritional benefits. The increased focus on utilisation by the pulse industry will complement and strengthen existing research being conducted by the scientific community and food industry. The growing need for more value-added opportunities for Canadian pulse crops was given a boost in the spring of 2005 with funding from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to support innovation in product development, focusing on opportunities in North America’s food markets. The new initiative, dubbed the ‘Pulse Innovation Project’, will have its headquarters at Pulse Canada – Canada’s national voice for pulse growers based in Winnipeg. The project will support the development and commercialisation of pulse foods that are economic, convenient and enhance nutrition and health. The Pulse Innovation Project will receive broad input from the scientific community and food processing industry in the development of a strategic approach to the expansion of markets for peas, lentils, beans and chickpeas in North America. For more information on the Pulse Innovation Project, *Director of Market Innovation, Pulse Canada. Email: [email protected] log onto the Pulse Canada web site at www.pulsecanada.com. I GRAIN LEGUMES No. 43 – September 2005 4 EURO NEWS GL-TTP: a new technology transfer platform for the international grain legume community L-TTP is an international Technology Transfer Platform GL-TTP is set up to work in close collaboration with AEP. Gcreated by the Grain Legumes Integrated Project primarily Consequently, GL-TTP will benefit from the network of the to work at the integration, assessment and commercial exploitation international grain legume community developed by AEP during of the results of GLIP research. GL-TTP will facilitate the transfer the last twelve years. AEP and GL-TTP will share strength to of knowledge and state-of-the-art technologies between research animate grain legume research throughout the network. GL-TTP and industry in order to boost the production of grain legumes. will complement AEP by facilitating the exploitation of the results The mission of GL-TTP is to provide enabling tools in order to: of grain legume research by industrialists. 1. increase grain legume production through the use of more GL-TTP adopts a strategy to stimulate cooperation between robust varieties and improved crop management, grain legume organisations so that services and technology transfers can be set up more efficiently and at reduced costs for individual 2. improve and diversify grain legume products for the feed and actors at every step of the transfer. food industry through better grain quality and new processing GL-TTP is a not-for-profit association under the French law, techniques. so-called ‘Association loi 1901’. The detailed structure and GL-TTP will initially focus on the interaction between research organisation of GL-TTP is described in its official statutes, available scientists and plant breeders in order to facilitate and expedite on demand at [email protected].