Objective
LATHYRUS SATIVUS (GRASS PEA) IN THE CHEAPEST LEGUME SEED AVAILABLE ON INDIA AND BANGLADESHI MARKETS. AT THE SAME TIME IT HAS THE HIGHEST PROTEIN VALUE AND ITS CULTURE IS LEAST AFFECTED BY ADVERSE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND PESTS. THIS PLANT MAY BECOME THE "NUTRITIONAL VOLKSWAGEN" FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IF THE NEUROTOXIN ODAP, PRESENT IN ITS SEEDS, COULD BE REMOVED SAFELY AND CHEAPLY WITHOUT LOOSING ITS NUTRITIONAL VALUE, OR IF NON-TOXIC VARIETIES COULD BE DEVELOPED OR PRODUCED BY GENETIC ENGINEERING. THE PROGRAMME PROPOSED INVOLVES A MULTIPRONGED AND MULTIDFISCIPLINARY APPROACH THAT WILL COMBINE EXPERTISES IN AREAS OF
- EPIDEMIOLOGY, TO ASSESS THE EXTEND OF THE LATHYRISM PROBLEM IN ETHIOPIA - NEUROLOGY, TO STUDY THE EVOLUTION OF THE DISEASE IN BANGLADESH AND TO IDENTIFY PRECLINICAL, POTENTIALY REVERSIBLE SYMPTOMS
- FOOD PROCESSING AND NUTRITION TO DEVELOP METHODS TO SAFELY REMOVE THE TOXIN BY BIOLOGICAL (FERMENTATION) OR CHEMICAL (EXTRACTION) TREATMENTS - BIOCHEMISTRY TO DETERMINE AND ISOLATE THE KEY ENZYMES FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF THE TOXIN. IN ANIMAL MODELS, THE THRESHOLD FOR THE TOXICITY AND POTENTIAL PROTECTION BY VITAMINES OR MEDICINES WILL BE EVALUATED - MOLECULAR GENETICS TO PRODUCE TRANSGENIC PLANTS WHERE THE PRODUCTION OF THE TOXIN WOULD BE BLOCKED
- AGRONOMISTS TO EVALUATE THE NEWLY OBTAINED CULTIVARS UNDER DIFFERENT CLIMIATIC CONDITIONS (ETHIOPIAN DRY HIGHLANDS, BANGLADESHI HUMID LOWLANDS, INDIAN DRY LOWLANDS AND SALINE LANDS AT THE COASTLINE OF BANGLADESH). THE PROPOSED PROGRAMME COMPLEMENTS PROJECTS CURRENTLY GOING ON IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES, SPONSORED BY I.D.R.C. CANADA, B.A.D.C. BELGIUM, AND BAND AID, UNDER THE GLOBAL UMBRELLA OF I.N.I.L.S.E.L. (INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LATHYRUS SATIVUS AND THE ERADICATION OF LATHYRISM) AND ITS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology molecular genetics
- medical and health sciences medical biotechnology genetic engineering
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds legumes
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9000 Gent
Belgium
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