This study presents SST (Species Selection Tool), a climate-based framework designed to support species selection across geographic regions and climate scenarios. The tool was developed to enable breeders to examine species selection scenarios across countries and climate horizons. Beyond identifying promising species for testing, SST prioritizes candidate species, highlights opportunities for germplasm exchange, anticipates c...

This position paper was collaboratively written during the international expert symposium “EU Chemicals Assessment - Risk- or Hazard-based?” that was organised by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin on November 27th and 28th 2025. Twenty experts from several institutions and European countries considered the scientific merits of both hazard-based and risk-based approaches to chemical safety assessm...

Oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) is sensitive to heat stress during the reproductive stage, but it is not clear whether the male and female reproductive organs differ in their sensitivity to heat stress. In this study, full diallel crossing experiments were conducted among four genotypes of B. napus under control, moderate and high heat stress conditions for five days immediately before and two days after crossing. General co...

Summary The antifungal activity of bacteria from the genus C ollimonas has been well documented, but the chemistry and gene functions that underlie this phenotype are still poorly understood. Screening of a random plasposon insertion library of C ollimonas fungivorans T er331 for loss‐of‐function mutants revealed the importance of gene cluster K , which is annotated to code for the biosynthesis of a secondary metabolite and wh...