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Jette F Young , Martin Krøyer Rasmussen , Margrethe Therkildsen & Barbara Vad Andersen
There is a unique opportunity for an effective re-organisation of the food system to establish resilient value chains in the EU. Gathering a large set of independent food system actors, FEASTS will provide an unprecedented, unbiased and robust knowledge base for the assessment of the sustainability aspects of the Cultivated Meat/Cultivated Sea Food sector by actively promoting multistakeholder engagement and co-creation activities grounded on transparent dialogue and open science practices. Fostering European cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solutions.Description
01/01-2024 → 31/12-2026
Margrethe Therkildsen , Rahmi Lale , Gurvinder Singh Dahiya , Reut Shavit , Jascha Jäger , Claus Rosensparre , Selma Al-Zohairi , Margit Andreasen , Karl Christian Møller , Per Bruheim , Trine Kastrup Dalsgaard , Jette F Young , Martin Krøyer Rasmussen , Fie Følbæk Drachmann , Bo Wang & Marc Auguet Lara
MuscleFuel will reach proof of concept of the use of porcine blood and microalgae as nutrient for cultivated meat through six research and development work packages and one management and dissemination work package
WP1 Collection of blood and microalgae biomass
WP2 Fractionation of biomass for hydrolysis
WP3 Targeted hydrolysis of biomass fractions using AI and enzyme engineering
WP4 Screening of nutrients as resources for proliferation of satellite cell culture
WP5 Characterization of nutrients
WP6 Live cycle assessment of blood and microalgae as potential resources for proliferation of satellite cells for cultivated meat
WP7 Management and disseminationDescription
01/01-2024 → 31/12-2026
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
