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GRAIN LEGUMES - New strategies to improve grain legumes for food and feed
Project
Project code: 506223
Contract period: 10.02.2004
- 09.02.2008
Budget: 14,750,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Basic research
The EU faces the challenge of providing high quality protein for both animal and human consumption. Europe currently imports about 70% of its plant protein yet much of this could be derived from EU grown Grain Legumes. In the human diet Grain Legumes are b eneficial and they provide an excellent source of high quality plant protein for animal feed. Furthermore, legume use in arable crop rotations reduces the need for fertiliser application and acts as a break-crop, reducing the need for pest and disease cont rol. Together this is a unique combination of benefit to the environment.
Section overview
Subjects
- Plant Breeding
- Biotechnology
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Participating institutions
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
- Technical University Munich (TUM)
- University of Bielefeld
- Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main
- Leibniz University of Hannover
- Fraunhofer-Institute for Process Engineering & Packaging (Fh-IVV)
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPIMP)
