Pietro (Pete) Iannetta

• Coordinator (2017-21) of the EU-H2020 funded project ‘TRansition paths to sUstainable legume-based systems in Europe’, TRUE, Grant Agreement Number 727973.
• Executive (coordination) Team Member (2017- 21)on the H2020 EU funded project‘Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability’, DIVERSify, Grant Agreement Number 727824.
• Work package leader (2017-21) on the H2020 EU funded project. ‘A novel and integrated approach to increase multiple and combined stress tolerance in plants using tomato as a model’, TomRes, Grant Agreement Number 727929.
• Training Coordinator, Research Programme (In situ seed sampling) Leader, Executive Committee Member (2014-2018):EU-FP7 Marie Curie funded Initial Training Network, ‘Native Seed Science and Technology’, NASSTEC: training 12 Early Stage Researchers in native seed science, conservation and use. This project promotes the use of native seeds for grassland restoration in an academia-industry partnership to build the capacity in local companies for large scale native seed production, carrying out demonstrative pilot projects including developing EU policies for grassland restoration and reclamation.
• Workpackage Leader (2016-2021) to Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS): Reporting Deliverable (RD) 2.1.8, ‘Novel crops and cropping systems’
• Principal Investigator (2016-2021) to Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS): RDs:
  • 1.3.1, ‘Biodiversity and ecosystem functions - What underpins a healthy ecosystem?’;
  • 2.1.6, ‘Integrated Pest Management’;
  • 2.3.8, ‘Alternative approaches to sustainable land management’, and;
  • 2.3.9 ‘Integrated Management Systems’
• Principal Investigator (2015-17):Genomia Fund, ‘Developing commercial products and services to stabilise and maximise yield from peas and beans (“OptiN”)’, to form a spin-out company offering diagnostic and remedial severvices for legumes growers and breeders; including identification and provision  of elite rhizobia.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

• Principle Investigator (2012-2016): Technology Strategy Board, Beans4feeds project. This project aims to deliver improved faba beans for sustainable protein production for (primarily) the farmed fish market
• Partner:EU-FP7 AMIGA (2012-2016): Assessing and Monitoring Impacts of Genetically modified plants on agroecosystems
• Partner:EU-FP7 PURE (2011-2015): Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management
• Principal Investigator (2011-2016): Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS): to work packages: 3.4, 'Understanding of the responses of Scotland’s biodiversity to climate change and land-use change: to inform policy', and; 1.1, "Mapping key ecosystem services in Scotland at appropriate spatial and temporal scales"
• Work package Leader (2010-14):Novel Rotation Design, EU-FP7 Legume Futures