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Jatropha curcas Applied and Technological Research on Plant Traits
Start date:2010-01-01
End date:2013-12-31
Project Acronym:JATROPT
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Raymond |
DROEVENDAALSESTEEG WAGENINGEN NEDERLAND Region:OOST-NEDERLAND GELDERLAND Arnhem/Nijmegen |
| Tel:+31-317-480570 | |
| Fax:+31-317-418094 | |
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Description
Objective:
Jatropha curcas shows a big promise towards sustainable and affordable bio-fuels. Several groups are working independently towards development of both agro-systems and high quality germ-plasm of Jatropha, and downstream processing and biodiesel markets.
The challenges are to make the big promises come true: high oil yield, low competition with food crops, use in various agro-systems from monoculture plantations, to mixed cropping and use in hedges around agricultural fields. JATROPT aims at linking high quality research groups and companies that are now operating in different continents in order to achieve a large synergy in research and development of jatropha as a bio-fuel crop.
In five Work packages (Breeding, Genetic tools, Sustainable Agro-systems, Demonstrating and Dissemination), the following aims are pursued:
1) Achieve a world wide germ-plasm collection of Jatropha curcas, molecularly characterised in order to classify the collection into groups with similar genetic backgrounds; evaluation of elite germ-plasm of this collection in Asia, Africa and Latin-America; linking segregating population based on parents from different parts of the world and creating a global Jatropha linkage map.
2) Develop genetic information and marker tools (genetics of toxic/low toxic trait, branching patterns; disease resistance) to speed up the breeding process.
3) Develop agro-systems that yield sustainable and affordable bio-fuels - and interesting uses of the co-products (biomass/protein residues after oil extraction), with a focus on Pro Poor development and on designing systems in which compete for food and fuel can be minimized;
4) Demonstration of the potential of local/regional use of produced bio-fuels to increase agricultural and general economic productivity will be investigated.
5) Achieve dissemination of knowledge on quality of germ-plasm, on genetics and sustainable agro-systems setting up distribution of combined packages of agronomic guidelines and germ-plasm.
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Project Details
Start date:2010-01-01
End date:2013-12-31
Duration:48 months
Project Reference:245236
Project cost:4156080 EURO
Project Funding:2995739 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-KBBE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Jatropha curcas - breeding strategy - towards a sustainable crop for biomaterials and biofuels - SICA (India and/or African ACP and/or Latin America)
Contract type:Small/medium-scale focused research project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA)
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Subject index:Agricultural biotechnology , Biofuels
Results for this Project
| Periodic Report Summary - JATROPT (Jatropha curcas applied and technological research on plant traits) | 22/10/2012 |
Other participants
| Organization name:KEYGENE NV | |
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Name:Anker |
AGRO BUSINESS PARK 90 216 WAGENINGEN NEDERLAND Region:OOST-NEDERLAND GELDERLAND Arnhem/Nijmegen |
| Tel:+31-317466866 | |
| Fax:+31-317424939 | |
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| Organization name:CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT | |
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Name:Jacques |
Rue Scheffer PARIS FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Paris |
| Tel:+33-467-615812 | |
| Fax:+33-467-615871 | |
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| URL:http://www.cirad.fr | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY OF YORK | |
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Name:Chris |
HESLINGTON HALL YORK UNITED KINGDOM Region:YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE WEST YORKSHIRE |
| Tel:+44-1904434416 | |
| Fax:+44-1904434119 | |
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| URL:http://www.york.ac.uk | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUARIA | |
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Name:Adilson Kenji |
Parque Estacao Biologica - PqEB s/n 451 BRASILIA BRAZIL Region: |
| Tel:+55-86-30899191 | |
| Fax:+55-86-30899130 | |
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| URL:http://www.embrapa.br | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY | |
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Name:Muthappareddy |
Lawley Road COIMBATORE INDIA Region: |
| Tel:+91-422-6611376 | |
| Fax:+91-422-6611455 | |
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| URL:http://www.tnau.ac.in | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE APPLIQUEE AU DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL | |
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Name:Danièle |
Route d'Andraisoro-Ampandrianomby 1690 ANTANANARIVO MADAGASCAR Region: |
| Tel:+20-6330501493 | |
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| URL:http://www.fofifa.mg | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHAPINGO | |
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Name:Jesús |
CARRETERA MEXICO TEXCOCO KM 38 CHAPINGO MEXICO Region: |
| Tel:+52-5959546334 | |
| Fax:+52-5959521614 | |
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| URL:http://www.chapingo.mx | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:BIONOR TRANSFORMACION SA | |
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Name:Javier |
Poligono Industrial Lacorzanilla Lz-2 Parcela 9 BERANTEVILLA ALAVA ESPAÑA Region: |
| Tel:+34-946088300 | |
| Fax:+34-946573020 | |
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| Organization name:QUINVITA PLANT SCIENCE LIMITED | |
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Name:Piet C.g. |
Park Row LEEDS UNITED KINGDOM Region:YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE WEST YORKSHIRE |
| Tel:+44-7889641751 | |
| Fax:+31-297344102 | |
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| URL:http://www.quinvita.com | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:BIOCOMBUSTIBLES DE GUATEMALA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA | |
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Name:Ricarda |
calle 10-31 zona 10 GUATEMALA GUATEMALA Region: |
| Tel:+502-2367-6324 | |
| Fax:+502-2368-0937 | |
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| Organization name:UNIVERSIDAD SAN CARLOS DE GUATEMALA | |
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Name:Gregorio Amilcar |
Ciudad Universitaria zona GUATEMALA GUATEMALA Region: |
| Tel:+502-2443-9500 | |
| Fax:+502-2476-9770 | |
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| URL:http://www.usac.edu.gt | Organization Type: |
Record control number:94718
