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 The mission of the SmartCell project is to develop fundamental knowledge and enabling technologies for the rational engineering and processing of plants and plant cells. This will facilitate the economical production of secondary metabolites for industrial use, and will promote European competitiveness through the development and protection of Intellectual Property.
Contact: Alain Goossens |
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 The main focus of the SYMBRION project is to investigate and develop novel principles of adaptation and evolution for symbiotic multi-robot organisms based on bio-inspired approaches and modern computing paradigms.
Contact: Yves Van de Peer |
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 The project Promicrobe starts from the concept that the host microbial community (MC) is influenced by the host itself and by the microbial community of the system in which the host is living. It is anticipated that there is a reciprocal interaction between the different compartments of the system in every stage of the life cycle.
Contact: Frank Van Breusegem |
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 Renewall: Improving plant cell walls for use as a renewable industrial feedstock
Contact: Wout Boerjan |
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 NOVELTREE is designed to enable significant genetic improvement of the composition and characteristics of forest products to satisfy the needs (quality, quantity, sustainability, vulnerability) of consumers and the forest-based sector.
Contact: Wout Boerjan |
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 ENERGY POPLAR aims to develop energy poplar trees with both desirable cell-wall traits and high biomass yield under sustainable low-input conditions to be used as a source of cellulosic feedstock for bioethanol production.
Contact: Wout Boerjan |
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 The aim of this Spicy project is to develop a suite of tools based on molecular breeding to help breeders in predicting phenotypic response of genotypes for complex traits like yield under a range of environmental conditions. Hence it can improve the selection efficiency of these genotypes for these traits: Smart tools for Prediction (and) Improvement of Crop Yield.
Contact: Marnik Vuylsteke |
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 BRAVISSIMO - BRAssinosteroid Venture Increasing StudentS' International MObility is a Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) funded by the European Commission as part of its Seventh Framework Programme. The project started on September 1, 2008 and is scheduled to run over a period of four years. The aim of this project is to gain conceptual advance into the function of plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids in Arabidopsis thaliana and to translate this understanding into model crop plants.
Contact: Jenny Russinova |
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 Within this network , 5 Belgian Laboratories assisted by an eminent European partner will combine efforts to tackle major aspects of root growth and development in a well-focused strategy by concentrating one species, Arabidopsis thaliana that turned out to be an ideal model system for root developmental research. The anticipated new insights will certainly become essential for all future approaches to enhance growth of plants as alternative energy sources .
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 Arabidopsis GROwth Network integrating OMICS technologies
Plants are crucial to mankind as they supply food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and renewable sources of materials and energy. Yet the processes by which they grow are poorly understood.
Contact: Pierre Hilson
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 EU-SOL is geared to characterizing, extracting and exploiting the natural under- exploited biodiversity available in tomato and potato to improve consumer/processor/producer-driven quality traits.
Contacts: Yves Van de Peer; Pierre Hilson |
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 A look at the evolutionary history of forests can guide scientists to predict how they might respond to future climate changes. But forests are complex ecosystems that need complex approaches to deliver a detailed understanding of how they function.
Contacts: Wout Boerjan; Yves Van de Peer & Pierre Rouzé
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 DIATOMICS is stimulating multidisciplinary basic research in Europe to exploit the full potential of diatom genome sequences to underpin applications of relevance for human health, and for predicting and monitoring global climate change.
Contact: Dirk Inzé |
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 Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Research Training (EST) are aimed at offering structured scientific and/or technological training as well as providing complementary skills.
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 Pharma-Planta: "Bringing the prospect of plant-derived pharmaceuticals to life"
Contact: Ann Depicker
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 Systematic analysis of Arabidopsis Promoters.
Contact: Pierre Hilson
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