GRASSMARGINS

Enhancing biomass production from marginal lands with perennial grasses

 Coordinatore TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 

 Organization address address: Oak Park
city: CARLOW

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Mairéad
Cognome: Esmonde
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 53 91 71 226

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Ireland [IE]
 Totale costo 3˙932˙138 €
 EC contributo 2˙998˙623 €
 Programma FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
 Code Call FP7-KBBE-2011-5
 Funding Scheme CP-TP
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-10-01   -   2015-09-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

 Organization address address: Oak Park
city: CARLOW

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Mairéad
Cognome: Esmonde
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 53 91 71 226

IE (CARLOW) coordinator 713˙851.00
2    AARHUS UNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: Nordre Ringgade 1
city: AARHUS C
postcode: 8000

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Britta
Cognome: Breinbjerg
Email: send email
Telefono: +45 8999 1900
Fax: +45 8999 1200

DK (AARHUS C) participant 478˙211.00
3    SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: ARRHENIUSPLAN 4
city: UPPSALA
postcode: 75007

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Erik Steen
Cognome: Jensen
Email: send email
Telefono: +46 404 15035

SE (UPPSALA) participant 398˙978.00
4    TINPLANT BIOTECHNIK UND PFLANZENVERMEHRUNG GMBH

 Organization address address: MAGDEBURGER LANDSTRASSE 33 OT KLEIN WANZLEBEN
city: WANZLEBEN BOERDE
postcode: 39164

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Juergen
Cognome: Abraham
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 39209 6969 0
Fax: +49 39209 6969 19

DE (WANZLEBEN BOERDE) participant 370˙801.00
5    KNOWLEDGE NOW LIMITED

 Organization address address: NURSERY STREET AIZLEWOODS MILL
city: SHEFFIELD
postcode: S3 8GG

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Chapman
Cognome: Chapman
Email: send email
Telefono: 447596000000

UK (SHEFFIELD) participant 318˙162.00
6    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN

 Organization address address: College Green -
city: DUBLIN
postcode: 2

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Deirdre
Cognome: Savage
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 1 8961942
Fax: +353 1 7071633

IE (DUBLIN) participant 178˙048.00
7    DLF - TRIFOLIUM A/S

 Organization address address: Ny Oestergade
city: ROSKILDE
postcode: 4000

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Klaus K.
Cognome: Nielsen
Email: send email
Telefono: +45 72 330411
Fax: +45 56 503524

DK (ROSKILDE) participant 130˙103.00
8    "SHANGHAI INSTITUTES FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES"

 Organization address address: YUEYANG ROAD 320
city: SHANGHAI
postcode: 200031

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Xinguang
Cognome: Zhu
Email: send email
Telefono: +86 21 54920486

CN (SHANGHAI) participant 124˙200.00
9    "The Establishment of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences"

 Organization address address: Lavrentyeva 10
city: Novosibirsk
postcode: 630090

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Sergey
Cognome: Peltek
Email: send email
Telefono: 79139103010

RU (Novosibirsk) participant 98˙998.00
10    INSTYTUT GENETYKI ROSLIN POLSKIEJ AKADEMI NAUK

 Organization address address: Ul. Strzeszynska 34
city: POZNAN
postcode: 60479

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Je?owski
Cognome: Stanis?aw
Email: send email
Telefono: 48616550240
Fax: 48616550301

PL (POZNAN) participant 94˙160.00
11    THE CIRCA GROUP EUROPE LIMITED

 Organization address address: PEMBROKE STREET 26 FITZWILLIAM BUSINESS CENTRE
city: DUBLIN 2
postcode: 2

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Jim
Cognome: Codd
Email: send email
Telefono: +353 87 9223939

IE (DUBLIN 2) participant 60˙800.00
12    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

 Organization address address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK
city: SHEFFIELD
postcode: S10 2TN

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Joanne
Cognome: Watson
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 114 2224754
Fax: +44 114 2221455

UK (SHEFFIELD) participant 32˙311.00

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perennial    productivity    environmental    biomass    land    poor    good    varieties    marginal    soil    grown    grasses    arundinacea   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Perennial grasses, which once established can be harvested and re-grow annually for many decades, have a number of other beneficial characteristics which suit them as biomass crops. These include high resource use efficiency, high productivity, good environmental qualities and a wide range of end uses. Environmental benefits include high rates of soil carbon sequestration, enhanced biodiversity and soil stabilisation. Furthermore, perennial grasses naturally colonise marginal areas of land which often impose severe restrictions on the growth of vegetation. Marginal land is defined as land of poor quality for agriculture and which yields poor returns for the farmer. The aim of this project is to identify, characterize and develop novel varieties of C3 grasses (Dactylis glomerata, Festuca arundinacea and Phalaris arundinacea) and the C4 genus Miscanthus that show high and stable productivity and require the minimum of additional inputs when grown on different forms of marginal land. In broad terms the work will contribute to overcoming specific bottlenecks along the whole perennial grass-based production chain. In particular it will use modelling to identify the optimal characteristics and geographical distribution of perennial grasses of potential use for biomass production, undertake pre-breeding of novel varieties, investigate stress tolerance and develop drying characteristics following harvest. The consortium assembled to achieve these outputs consists of 12 partners from eight countries representing Northern, Central and Western Europe and partners from Russia and China and involves three SME partners.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU project is investigating perennial grasses as a biomass crop that can be grown on marginal land that isn't good for any other use.

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