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Second GL-TTP workshop
27-28 November 2008
Novi Sad, Serbia

We are pleased to invite you to the Second GL-TTP Workshop which will be held on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November 2008 in the Master Congress Centre, Novi Sad, Serbia.

Welcome
Grain Legumes Technology Transfer Platform (GL-TTP) is a not-for-profit organisation that bridges the gap between research and industry to increase the production and quality of grain legumes worldwide. GLTTP was initiated in 2005 by the EU FP6 Grain Legumes Integrated Project (GLIP) to ensure the exploitation of the project outputs by the grain legume industry. Having a foot in both the research and industry worlds, GL-TTP is in an ideal position to identify the specific needs and constraints of grain legume breeders and channel the latest research results and technologies through an accelerated pipeline to the grain legume industry.
Although both organisations have their own peculiar fields of interest, it is GL-TTP and the European Association for Grain Legume Research (AEP) that represent two great driving forces that work together on the same major task: mobilising the global grain legume community to the benefit of each of their members.

The Second GL-TTP Workshop is organised as a satellite meeting of the International Conference Conventional and Molecular Breeding of Field and Vegetable Crops (BREEDING 08), organised and hosted by the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops from Novi Sad, Serbia, and held from 24 to 27 November 2008 in Novi Sad, Serbia, with details available at its web site, http://www.ifvcns.co.yu/breeding08.

The Second GL-TTP Workshop is a continuation of the series open by the First GL-TTP Workshop Targeting Science to Real Needs which was held from 23 to 25 April 2007 in Paris, France.

Objective
The objective of the Second GL-TTP Workshop is to meet the needs of grain legume breeders, with focus on the further exploitation of existing genetic resources and specific use and integration of currently available genomic resources and molecular technologies into breeding practice.
The outputs of the recently ended EU FP6 Grain Legumes Integrated Project (GLIP) will provide the major basis for the discussions.
Among the organisers’ intentions is to make fruitful links of grain legumes with soyabean and forage legume research and breeding communities, as well as to make an attempt to integrate a deep theoretic knowledge on broad spectrum of legume species with practical application in the breeding process and with a final output in the form of the development of novel varieties that would meet diverse needs by farmers and other end-users.

Audience
The anticipated audience of the Second GL-TTP Workshop will be composed primarily of the GL-TTP members, both fundamental researchers and legume breeders, with the first ones interested in interacting with industry and setting up partnership for future Research and Development and with the latter ones eager to embrace new technologies and set up international networks to optimise the exploitation of available genetic resources.

The Second GL-TTP Workshop will be open to non-GL-TTP members too, keen on learning more about GL-TTP activities and legume science in general or simply interested in listening to and discussing with some of our renowned guest contributors.