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AC0204: A study of the scope for the application of research in animal genomics and breeding to reduce nitrogen and methane emissions from livestock based food chains
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2007 To 2008, Cost £49,935
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Genesis Faraday Partnership
Field of Study:   Agriculture and Climate Change
Theme:   Mitigating Nitrogen and Carbon Emissions to Air
Keywords:  
Breeding, Climate and Weather, Climate Change, Agriculture and Climate Change, Environmental Protection, Genetics, Livestock, Sustainable Production
 
 
AC0205: Developing technologies to improve the fertility of dairy cows
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2006 To 2008, Cost £200,000
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   University - Nottingham
Field of Study:   Agriculture and Climate Change
Theme:   Mitigating Nitrogen and Carbon Emissions to Air
Keywords:  
Dairy, Agriculture and Climate Change, Air Pollution, Farming, Genetics, Animal, Livestock Farming, Animal Production, Reproduction
 
 
AR0709: The Defra Wheat Genetic Improvement Network
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2003 To 2008, Cost £1,850,539
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Rothamsted Research (BBSRC)
Field of Study:   Arable Crops
Theme:   Arable crop genetics and breeding
Keywords:  
Cereals, Crop Diseases, Crop Improvement, Farming, Genetics, Genomics, Natural Resource Use, Plant Genetic Resources, Arable Farming, Sustainable Farming and Food, Sustainable Production, Wheat, Wheat Production, Biotech-non GM
 
 
AR0711: The Defra Pulse Crop Genetic Improvement Network
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2005 To 2009, Cost £1,287,709
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Processors and Growers Research Organisation, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, John Innes Centre (BBSRC)
Field of Study:   Arable Crops
Theme:   Arable crop genetics and breeding
Keywords:  
Crop Improvement, Crops, Farming, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Arable, Arable Farming, Sustainable Farming and Food, Biotechnology
 
 
AW0126: Environmental and genetic influence on the development of adverse behaviour in pigs
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 1999 To 2003, Cost £284,574
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   University - Newcastle, Agricultural Research Institute of NI, University - Aberdeen
Field of Study:   Animal Welfare
Theme:   On-farm pig welfare
Keywords:  
Farming, Genetics, Livestock Farming, Pigs
 
 
AW0134: Identifying the genetic causes of sow aggression towards their offspring.
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2002 To 2007, Cost £559,343
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   University - Cambridge
Field of Study:   Animal Welfare
Theme:   On-farm pig welfare
Keywords:  
Farming, Genetics, Livestock Farming, Pigs
 
 
IF01104: Establishing the scientific and mechanistic framework for a GIN
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2010 To 2010, Cost £107,398
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Theme:   Integrated Farming Systems - A
Keywords:  
 
 
IF01105: Identifying genes that could improve nitrogen use efficiency
Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2009 To 2010, Cost £70,082
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Theme:   Integrated Farming Systems - A
Keywords:  
 
 
IF0120: New pre-breeding, crop improvement R&D for grass and forage crops
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2007 To 2008, Cost £448,646
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Theme:   Integrated Farming Systems - A
Keywords:  
 
 
IF0142: Sequencing the gene space of potato chromosome IV, comparative analysis with tomato and development of a genebased mapping platform (contribution to a BBSRC project)
Description - Objective - Time Scale & Cost
From 2008 To 2011, Cost £109,053
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Keywords:  
 
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