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Assessing and Monitoring the Impacts of Genetically modified plants on Agro-ecosystems (AMIGA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

The project aims at 1 providing baseline data on biodiversity in agro-ecosystems in the EU, 2 translating regional protection goals in measurable assessment endpoints, 3 defining lists of suitable bioindicators for various European regions, 4 improving knowledge on potential long term environmental effects of genetically modified plants (GMPs), 5 testing the efficacy of the EFSA Guidance Document ...
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Optimising Subsidiary Crop Applications in Rotations (OSCAR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

There is a need to improve sustainability in farming systems particularly through soil care and improvement, but not at the expense of productivity. One approach is to focus on a comprehensive advance in conservation tillage. This will be developed from improved ways of integrating subsidiary crops (SC) as living or dead mulches or cover crops with the main crops in rotations so as to simultaneous ...
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The role of insect symbionts in host plant use through their effect on plant-induced defenses (PlantInsectSymbiont)

Start date: May 16, 2013, End date: May 15, 2015,

Micro-organisms, in particular symbiotic bacteria, can affect the way that herbivorous insects utilise their host plants. The best known examples are the obligate endosymbionts that enable their hosts to feed on diets impoverished in essential nutrients. But recent research has identified new ways in which bacteria can influence insect-plant interactions, and which often involve facultative rather ...
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Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management (PURE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"To meet both the worldwide demand for food security and new environmental needs, agriculture must increase food production and quality while decreasing its ecological footprint. Ensuring sustainability and competitiveness with reduced pesticide inputs is a major challenge.PURE will provide integrated pest management (IPM) solutions and a practical toolbox for their implementation in key European ...
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Sustainable Liquid Biofuels from Biomass Biorefining (SUNLIBB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"SUNLIBB brings together key researchers and industrial innovators working to overcome technical barriers all along the pipeline for second generation bioethanol production. The range of research spans from feedstock improvement, through innovations in pretreatment and saccharification, the generation of added value products, especially from lignin, and innovations in fermentation. The project bri ...
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Research capacity for the implementation of genetic control of mosquitoes (INFRAVEC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Mosquitoes transmit a variety of infectious diseases that cause a tremendous burden to public health. Due to climate changes and to the increase in international trade and tourism the threats posed by mosquitoes are increasingly affecting large parts of Europe, causing understandable concerns among the populations of many Member States. Control methods, mainly based on insecticide usage, are strug ...
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Vector-borne Risks for Europe: Risk assessment and control of West Nile and Chikungunya virus (VECTORIE) (VECTORIE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

VECTORIE provides for a multidisciplinary approach combining the expertise of (basic) virology, entomology and advanced vaccinology to monitor the spread of and diagnose, prevent and treat infections caused by West Nile virus (WNV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIKV). VECTORIE therefore addresses Europe’s need to prepare for these vector-borne diseases along three strands:Vector biology: WNV and CHIKV a ...
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Novel release system and Bio-based Utilities for insect repellent textiles and Garments (NO BUG)

Start date: Oct 15, 2009, End date: Oct 14, 2013,

In several applications of professional textiles and clothes mosquito repellency is an important issue. Two major problems arise: repellents currently in use are harmful, resistance to conventional repellents increases, and the lifetime of release systems is too short. Solving these two problems are the main goals of the NO BUG project. Novel biorepellents will be considered and evaluated as well ...
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Quantitative pathway analysis of natural variation in complex disease signaling in C. elegans (PANACEA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Complex human diseases account for 60% of the deaths in Europe. The genetic variation – that is the genetic make-up of all alleles at all loci - of complex disease pathways determines individual disease susceptibility and treatment prospects. Because humans are genetically diverse the EC prioritizes research which leads to a better understanding of the natural variation in genetic pathways underly ...
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Plant Production of Vaccines (PLAPROVA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Advances in the technologies for expressing proteins and extracting them from plants have allowed several plant-made products to be assessed for safety and efficacy. The results have been favourable and have culminated in the demonstration that plant-produced vaccine can protect target animals against challenge. However, most of these successes have concerned the production of antigens which had ...
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