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Accelerated Seaweed Production for Innovative and Robust seaweed aquaculture in Europe

Projektbeschreibung

Förderung der Aquakultur von Algen in Europa

Die Algenzucht ist der wachstumsstärkste Aquakultur-Sektor in Europa. Die Rotalge Palmaria palmata zeichnet sich durch einen hohen Eiweißgehalt zwischen 20 und 35 Prozent, wertvolle Mineralstoffe und einen angenehmen Geschmack aus und ist daher eine bevorzugte Zielart für die europäische Algenbranche. Gegenwärtig werden in der Aquakultur jedoch noch immer willkürlich gesammelte Palmaria-Wildarten verwendet. Das durch die Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen geförderte Projekt ASPIRE wird ertragsreiche und robuste Palmaria-Sorten untersuchen und charakterisieren, um schnellwüchsige Algensorten zu entwickeln. Mithilfe von fortschrittlichen Sequenzierungs- und Bioinformatik-Werkzeugen (TASSEL-Pipeline) wird das Projekt die biochemischen und genetischen Marker von ertragsreichen Palmaria-Sorten identifizieren. ASPIRE wird eine innovative webbasierte Datenbank (MySQL, VueJS) aufbauen und Versuche auf landwirtschaftsbetrieblicher Ebene durchführen, um die Produktivität der ausgewählten Spitzensorten von Algen zu validieren.

Ziel

The ASPIRE project will develop fast growing seaweed strains to strengthen Europe’s potential to thrive in an emerging seaweed aquaculture industry. Seaweed cultivation is the fastest growing aquaculture sector and provides huge potential for market growth in Europe. The red algae Palmaria palmata is one of the target species of a growing European seaweed industry due to its high content of protein (20–35%), essential minerals and its appealing flavour. Recently, there has been significant advancements in the aquaculture procedures for Palmaria, but these approaches are still mainly built on the utilisation of randomly collected wild-types of Palmaria. A targeted strain selection has therefore huge potential to increase the prospects of Palmaria aquaculture in Europe. The objective of the ASPIRE project is to screen and characterise high- yielding and robust Palmaria strains. This will be implemented utilising high-throughput phenotyping technologies using performance screening (growth, morphology characteristics and photosynthetic parameters) and metabolomic analysis (primary/secondary metabolites using GC-MS, spectrophotometer, NMR etc.). These results in conjunction with next generation sequencing (Illumina seq.) and bioinformatics tools (TASSEL pipeline) will be utilised to identify both biochemical and genetic markers of high-yielding Palmaria strains. To ensure that the results have a high impact and find their way to the commercial end-user, the project will establish a novel and easy-to-use web-based database (MySQL, VueJS) specifically designed for use by the aquaculture stakeholders. The ASPIRE project will conduct farm-level trials to validate the advantages of growing the selected elite seaweed strains in terms of productivity and overall biomass quality. The multi-disciplinary project will set the bases for an urgently needed modern seaweed breeding programme to further develop the emerging European seaweed aquaculture sector.

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UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY
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Ireland Northern and Western West
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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