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Martin Jensen , Antonios Petridis , Majken Pagter , Maya Bojesen , Thomas Skovgaard , Jan Jager & Henning Jensen
Danish fruit and berry growers experience a significant loss of fruit production due to spring frosts that kill flower buds. Global warming induces earlier flowering and earlier loss of frost tolerance in buds, while the last day of spring frost has not become correspondingly earlier. This means an even greater risk of frost damage in Danish orchards in the future, which both threatens economic competitiveness and affects the environmental footprint.
The purpose of this project is to test and develop new and innovative solutions to protect flowers against spring frost with the aim of reducing frost damage and achieving higher and stable fruit yields and thus lowering the environmental footprint per fruit produced. Technologies being tested include testing new products that may biochemically or biophysically help protect flower buds from frost through delayed flowering or induced higher frost hardiness in buds. In addition, new fog systems that require much less water than traditional frost protection by irrigation will be tested. The possibility of utilizing varietal differences and rootstocks to reduce frost damage will be investigated. The importance of obtaining more precise information on microclimate will be investigated and results used to improve the prediction of damage risk and thus recommend the most economical and relevant tool for frost protection in orchards. Finally, measurements of physiological and biochemical changes in flower buds from the experiments will be used to develop more precise applied biological indicators of frost sensitivity to improve spring frost forecasting. Apples will be the main model, but pears and sweet cherries are also included
Financing: Projektet er støttet af: GUDP, Aarhus Universitet, Ålborg Universitet, Hortiadvice, Kærsbo frugtplantage og Egeby Frugtplantage.Description
01/08-2023 → 31/07-2027
Sanna Steenfeldt , Sofie Knorr , Margrethe Therkildsen , Barbara Vad Andersen , Jette F Young , Marie Trydeman Knudsen , Bjørn Aamand Andersen , Kiril Manevski , Uffe Jørgensen , Birgitte Hemmingsen , Linda Rosager Duve , Rikke Storm Overgaard , Niels Riis & Lars Hedegaard
Projektet har til formål at fremme et økologisk system med dualpurpose
høner og haner for øget etisk bæredygtighed,
ressourceudnyttelse og image af økologisk fjerkræproduktion.
Samarbejdspartnere er:
Innovationscenter for Økologisk Landbrug (ICOEL)
Niels og Grethe Æg
Göteborg
Restaurant Moment
DLGDescription
01/01-2024 → 31/12-2027
Jette F Young & Martin Krøyer Rasmussen
Food culture in Europe is deeply influenced by meat dishes. Currently up to 58% of protein per capita/day in Europe derives from animal agriculture. Globally an increase of 1.4% per year can be expected until 2031. To this end, alternative protein is essential to meet the growing demand while safeguarding environmental concerns and animal welfare. Project HARMONI addresses this issue by generating knowledge for model hybrid products as a toolbox for product characterization and future application. This will help to overcome the limitations of plant-based meat alternatives (PBMA) and cultured meat (CM), such as processing challenges, nutritional profiles, and consumer acceptance. By combining the advantages from PBMA and CM, attractive new food designs are provided, that as a long-term goal can expand the food palette, especially for meat eaters and flexitarians.
AU-Food aims to develop a bioprocess for producing animal muscle cells for use in hybrid products. This bioprocess will be optimized to achieve high-quality proteins and bioavailable iron.
Objectives:
(i) Create muscle cell mass with protein quality similar to conventional meat.
(ii) Develop a robust experimental setup to evaluate iron bioavailability in cultivated meat or hybrid products and benchmark these against conventional meat.
Preliminary research suggests that cultivated muscle fibers mimic many quality aspects of conventional meat, but specific nutritional outcomes need confirmation. We aim to address this through advanced in vitro digestion models and absorption studies, using the INFOGEST model and Caco2 cell models to evaluate protein digestibility and iron absorption. This will advance the nutritional characterization of cultivated meat from speculative assessments to concrete, data-driven insights.
Description
01/11-2025 → 30/09-2028
