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EU-based production and exploitation of alternative rubber and latex sources
Start date:2008-04-01
End date:2012-09-30
Project Acronym:EU-PEARLS
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK | |
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Name:Ruben |
Costerweg 50 9101 WAGENINGEN NEDERLAND Region:NOORD-NEDERLAND FRIESLAND Noord-Friesland |
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Description
Objective:
Natural rubber is a widely used raw material essential to industry, medicine, transportation and defence, whose major source, the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis, is currently both sustainable and environmentally beneficial. However, increased worldwide demand for natural rubber and latex means that alternative sustainable sources are urgently required. In order to meet this challenge, we propose to create a Network that links all stakeholders involved in the development and sustainable use of Parthenium argentatum (guayule) and Taraxacum koksaghyz (Russian dandelion) as alternative rubber and latex sources in the EU.
To guarantee the sustainable development and exploitation of both crops throughout the value creation chain, the project includes research into the collection and creation of new germplasm, biochemistry and genetics, breeding, agronomy, processing, and product development. The entire rubber biosynthetic pathway will be analysed, and potential bottlenecks will be identified and bypassed through targeted conventional breeding. Genes involved in rubber biosynthesis will be mapped, helping to accelerate breeding strategies in order to generate plants with commercially-viable rubber yields.
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Project Details
Start date:2008-04-01
End date:2012-09-30
Duration:54 months
Project Reference:212827
Project cost:7772158 EURO
Project Funding:5860116 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-KBBE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:BIOPOLYMERS - Biological Polymers from plants
Contract type:Large-scale integrating project
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Subject index:Policies, Agricultural biotechnology , Coordination, Cooperation, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Scientific Research, Food
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| Organization name:UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE | |
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Name:Yves |
Quartier Unil-Centre Bâtiment Unicentre LAUSANNE SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:RÉGION LÉMANIQUE Vaud |
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| Organization name:INSTITUTO VASCO DE INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO AGRARIO NEIKER SA | |
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Name:Enrique |
BERREAGA KALEA 1 VIZCAYA ESPAÑA Region: |
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Name:Jacques |
Rue Scheffer 42 PARIS FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Paris |
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Name:Jaroslav |
Zamek 1 PRUHONICE CESKA REPUBLIKA Region:CESKA REPUBLIKA STREDNI CECHY Stredocesky |
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INDUSTRIEWEG 20 STRAMPROY NEDERLAND Region:ZUID-NEDERLAND LIMBURG (NL) Midden-Limburg |
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Name:Peter |
AGRO BUSINESS PARK 90 90 216 WAGENINGEN NEDERLAND Region:OOST-NEDERLAND GELDERLAND Arnhem/Nijmegen |
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SCHLOSSPLATZ 2 MUENSTER DEUTSCHLAND Region:NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN MÜNSTER Münster, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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