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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
 
 
LK0656: Marker Assisted Selection Applied to Commercial Sheep
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2004 To 2007, Cost £243,203
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Theme:   LINK Sustainable Livestock Production
Keywords:  
 
 
LK0668: A molecular approach to breeding for resistance to footrot
Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2005 To 2009, Cost £262,771
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Theme:   LINK Sustainable Livestock Production
Keywords:  
 
 
LS1618: Farm Animal Genetics and Genomics (Genesis) Faraday Partnership
Description - Time Scale & Cost
From 2002 To 2009, Cost £955,000
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Theme:   CSA Strategic & Cross-Cutting Science Projects
Keywords:  
 
 
LS3311: The molecular biology of sex determination and sexual development in birds
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2003 To 2006, Cost £592,213
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Roslin Institute, Edinburgh (BBSRC)
Field of Study:   Livestock
Theme:   Improving sustainability of UK livestock production through enhanced reproductive performance
Keywords:  
Farming, Genetics, Livestock Farming, Animal Production, Molecular Biology, Poultry, Reproduction, Sustainable Farming and Food, Sustainable Production, Biotech-non GM
 
 
ME3106: Biological Effects of Contaminants on Estuarine Organisms (CDEP 84/5/312)
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2002 To 2005, Cost £315,498
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   CEFAS
Field of Study:   Environmental Protection - Marine
Theme:   Understanding the seas: Eco. Structure & Function
Keywords:  
Environmental Protection, Histopathology, Marine conservation, Marine Monitoring, Molecular Biology, Monitoring, Nature conservation, Parisitology, Biological Effects
 
 
ME4127: Development , Improvement & Application of Biological Effects Methods for Monitoring Contaminants in the Marine Environment
Description - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2008 To 2009, Cost £229,000
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   CEFAS
Field of Study:   Environmental Protection - Marine
Theme:   Monitoring & Assessment
Keywords:  
Ecotoxicology, Environmental Protection, Marine Impacts, Marine Monitoring, Molecular Biology, Pollution, Water Pollution, Biological Effects, Biomarkers
 
 
NF0424: Improving short rotation coppice through breeding and genomics
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2003 To 2010, Cost £3,511,415
Contractors / Funded Organisations:  
Keywords:  
 
 
NF0426: The genetic improvement of miscanthus for biomass
Description - Objective - Project Documents - Time Scale & Cost
From 2004 To 2009, Cost £1,216,288
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   Plant Research International, Institute of Grassland and Environment Research (IGER), University Wales, Aberystwyth
Field of Study:   Non-Food Crops
Theme:   Bioenergy
Keywords:  
Breeding, Crop Improvement, Crops, Agri-Industrial, Farming, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Arable Farming
 
 
OD1717: Exploitation of virulent/avirulent strain comparison to detect pathogen & host factors critical to the pathogenesis of bovine mastitis due to S.uberis
Description - Objective - Time Scale & Cost
From 2007 To 2011, Cost £331,898
Contractors / Funded Organisations:   BBSRC Central Office
Field of Study:   Animal Health
Theme:   Mastitis
Keywords:  
Control, Disease Control, Animal Diseases, Animal Health, Mastitis, Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis, Plants and Animals, Vaccine Development
 
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