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12/11/2007 - 12/12/2007 | Braunschweig

Better plants for better life

Second symposium in the frame of the German/Egyptian Year of Science

Better plants for better life
In future, improvements of crop productivity and quality will be related to a substantial development in plant biotechnology research and development. Plant biotechnology aims at contributing to sustainable agricultural production which addresses aspects of food security and food safety, and which is environmentally sound in such way that natural resources are preserved and contributions to climate change kept at minimum. Research into food safety and carry-over of organic and inorganic xenobiotics, food composition and diet related diseases, phytopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals is essential for instance to combat malnutrition and food-related disorders.
Present applications of biotechnology in agriculture include conventional agronomic research (breeding, plant nutrition, plant protection), tissue culture and micro-propagation, molecular breeding, genetic engineering and the production of GM crops, and the "omics" sciences (e.g., genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.). Particularly transgenic plants promise options to increase crop yield, to produce high-value primary (e.g. methionine) and secondary (e.g. glutathione) compounds in plants and to design plants with adaptive capacities to optimize growth under adverse conditions (e.g. salinity).
It is the scope of the 2nd Workshop on Better Plants for Better Life to highlight advances in research of different disciplines that contribute to achieve the objective of this general theme.

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Date:

12/11/2007 09:00 - 12/12/2007 20:00

Event venue:

Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (FAL)
Bundesallee 50
Gebäude Forum
38116 Braunschweig
Niedersachsen
Germany

Target group:

Journalists, Scientists and scholars

Email address:

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Biology, Environment / ecology, Oceanology / climate, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences

Types of events:

Entry:

12/03/2007

Sender/author:

Margit Fink

Department:

Präsidialbüro und Pressestelle

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event22140


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