IMPROVING CALCIUM NUTRITION AND ASSIMILATION IN RELATION TO FRUIT QUALITY

Project Information

CAP

Grant agreement ID: AIR31961

Project closed

Start date 1 January 1995

End date 31 December 1997

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994

Total cost € 1 143 753,00

EU contribution € 618 310,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE
France

Objective

A study will be made of the role that is played by Ca2+ in the quality of fruits. Therefore, Ca2+ movements and distribution will be studied and the effect of Ca2+ on physiology, texture, gene-expression and storage life will be analyzed.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › inorganic chemistry › alkaline earth metals
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › horticulture › fruit growing
• medical and health sciences › health sciences › nutrition
• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › physiology

Programme(s)

• FP3-AIR - Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 211 - Nutrition and irrigation of crops

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Avenue de Muret 145 ; 31076 TOULOUSE ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (6)

Bruker Medizintechnik GmbH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rudolf-Planck-Straße 23 ; 76275 Ettlingen
• Total cost: No data

CSIC

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: SERRANO ; 28006 MURCIA
• Total cost: No data

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Route de Narbonne ; 31062 Toulouse
• Total cost: No data

Horticulture Research International

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Wellesbourne ; CV35 9EF Warwick
• Total cost: No data

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 91 domaine de Saint-Paul ; 84143 Montfavet
• Total cost: No data

TEZIER IBERICA S.L.

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: CALLE RAFAEL JANINI ; 46022 VALENCIA
• Total cost: No data