RENEWALL
Improving Plant Cell Walls for Use as a Renewable Industrial Feedstock
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Organization address
address: HESLINGTON contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.renewall.eu/ |
| Totale costo | 7˙662˙908 € |
| EC contributo | 5˙744˙122 € |
| Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
| Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2007-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-IP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-08-01 - 2012-07-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Organization address
address: HESLINGTON contact info |
UK (YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Nordre Ringgade 1 contact info |
DK (AARHUS C) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
BIONIQS LIMITED
Organization address
address: "YORK SCIENCE PARK, BIOCENTRE" contact info |
UK (YORK) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
CORNELL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
Organization address
address: PINE TREE ROAD 373 contact info |
US (ITHACA NY) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
DLF - TRIFOLIUM A/S
Organization address
address: Ny Oestergade contact info |
DK (ROSKILDE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue De L'Universite 147 contact info |
FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 | KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET | DK | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN
Organization address
address: Valhallavaegen 79 contact info |
SE (STOCKHOLM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
KWS SAAT AG
Organization address
address: Grimsehlstrasse 31 contact info |
DE (EINBECK) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: ARRHENIUSPLAN 4 contact info |
SE (UPPSALA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
SWETREE TECHNOLOGIES AB
Organization address
address: TVISTEVAGEN 48 contact info |
SE (UMEAA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 12 |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Organization address
address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane contact info |
UK (CAMBRIDGE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 13 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Organization address
address: OXFORD ROAD contact info |
UK (MANCHESTER) | participant | 0.00 |
| 14 |
UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER TOULOUSE III
Organization address
address: ROUTE DE NARBONNE 118 contact info |
FR (TOULOUSE CEDEX 9) | participant | 0.00 |
| 15 |
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
Organization address
address: Nethergate contact info |
UK (DUNDEE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 16 |
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Organization address
address: Kensington Terrace 6 contact info |
UK (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 17 |
VIB
Organization address
address: Rijvisschestraat 120 contact info |
BE (ZWIJNAARDE - GENT) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'With oil reserves diminishing and the effects of industrial emissions on global climate, there is a need for renewable carbon-neutral industrial feedstocks. First generation biorefineries, producing biofuels and bioplastics by the fermentation of sugar or starch, are seeing a rapid expansion and are adding stress to food supplies. A more sustainable option is to use plant biomass from agricultural by-products, or dedicated biomass crops. Plant biomass is underutilized, abundant and composed mostly of cell wall polysaccharides. Conversion of these polysaccharides to sugars will provide cheap and abundant raw materials for industrial biotechnology. The use of plant biomass in this way is hampered by the high cost of saccharification due to the recalcitrance of cell walls to enzymatic hydrolysis. RENEWALL aims to find ways to overcome this technical bottleneck by identifying and modifying the structural features of plant cell walls that make them difficult to process. Our partnership brings together outstanding biologists, chemists, and enzymologists, as well as industrialists from the plant breeding and biotechnology sectors, from Europe and the USA who can together take an integrated multidisciplinary approach to solving this fundamental problem. Combining genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and systems approaches, we will achieve a step-change in our understanding of the biosynthesis of the major components of plant biomass, namely; lignin, cellulose and matrix polysaccharides. Using state-of-the-art and novel analytical methods we will determine the basis of the recalcitrance of plant biomass to saccharification. Combining these approaches, we will identify new genes that can be manipulated to improve the ease and yield of biomass saccharification and will generate rational approaches for improving the quality of plant biomass as an industrial feedstock'