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BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 128 - Phenotypic and molecular characterisation of genetic resources of Nordic timothy (Phleum pratanese L.)

Timothy is the most important forage grass species in the northern part of the Nordic countries. However, serious winter damages, which significantly lower persistency and yields, occur regularly. The Nordic plant breeders have so far been quite successfu l in developing new, high-yielding variet...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Viken

PROSDIV-Diverse

Towards self-sustainable European regional cattle breeds (EURECA)

Prosjektet omhandler bevaring og bruk av lokale/regionale kuraser: " status og organisering av eksisterende bevaringsprogrammer for disse i Europa " kartlegging av metodikk og software for forvaltning av genressurser " utvikling av perspektiver og retning slinjer for å utvikle raser og vellykkede...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Viken

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Reasons for opting out of certified organic production in Norway

The Norwegian government aims to achieve an organically managed area of 10% by 2010, as well as a 15% organic share of the total food production and consumption in Norway by 2015. Organic farming has developed rapidly since the early 1990's. From 1991 to 2005, the area of organically certified or...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Viken

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Recreational consumption as a market for farm based food and tourism businesses

Increasing leisure time increases the importance of leisure related consumption as compared to everyday consumption. Recreational consumption may therefore represent a potentially important market for developing small scale farm-based rural businesses. Lo cal attachment through relatives or secon...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Market orientated production of Norwegian greenhouse tomatoes

Quality parameters like taste, positive health impact, safety and freshness become more and more important to preserve and increase consumers preference for tomatoes. While 80% of the Norwegian population prefers Norwegian food, the percentage of Norwegia n tomatoes sold in our stores has been de...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Viken

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Efficient green support

Dismantling of trade barriers under WTO regulation is expected to have a large impact on Norwegian agriculture. Apart from food and raw materials production, agriculture contributes many external benefits to society in the form of valued scenery, bio-dive rsity, flood control and health and nutri...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Development and clinical testing of juice rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants

We will develop juice rich in natural antioxidants and phytochemicals and test bioactivity in clinical trials. Specifically, together with TINE R&D we aim at develop two juices based on grapes, pomegranates and/or blueberries. By screening potential ingre dients available on the marked we will op...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Stability and mobility of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages in clinical and environmental strains of Escherichia coli O103

E. coli O103 belongs to a subset of serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with severe human illnesses. Shiga toxin (Stx) production is essential but not sufficient for virulence in pathogenic STEC as factors involved in att achment, haemolysis and iron scavenging a...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Farming systems for high quality food products and sustainable agriculture in mountainous areas

The agriculture in the mountain districts of southern Norway is based on small farms and use of mountain pastures. High quality products sold at high price are one possible solution for mountain agriculture. Branding of products requires documentation of quality traits. In this project we will de...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Viken

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Kartlegging av effekt av råstoff og produksjonsprosess på proteolytiske og lipolytiske endringer ved produksjon av langtidsmodnet spekeskin

Prosjektet, med kortnavn Enzymgris, har som hovedmål å kartlegge råstoffegenskaper i skinkeråstoff fra ulike svineraser ved ulike slaktealdre, for å bestemme hvilken rase og slaktealder som er best egnet til produksjon av norsk langtidsmodnet spekeskinke. Noe av det unike i prosjektet er det nøy...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

The optimal choice and timing of agricultural policies in the presence of uncertainty

Agricultural policy analysis has traditionally focused on the optimal choice of policy instruments for a given set of policy objectives. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the timing of policy implementation is another choice variable to policy makers. This choice is reflected in the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Natural and farmed habitat as a basis for production of red deer in Norway

The project will provide a basis to predict the potential for production of red deer based on detailed knowledge of the natural and farmed habitat as well as detailed studies of red deer habitat use in multiple areas. The yield of red deer reached 27600 i n 2005. Red deer thus constitute the 2nd ...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Melk med forhøyet kvalitet som plattform for videre vekst

Melkeproduksjonen i Norge står for 45% av produksjonsverdien i husdyrbruket, mot 60% for 15 år siden. Lønnsomheten er under press. I områder med god tilgang på beite kan kostnadene reduseres betydelig ved å utnytte fôrressursene. Man tror at forbrukerne v il legge mer vekt på kvaliteten av melka,...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Økologisk restaurering etter naturinngrep. - Metoder for vegetasjonsetablering etter utbygging av kraft- og veganlegg

Naturområder som er ødelagt av inngrep eller forstyrrelse blir tradisjonelt oppfattet som "tapt". Ved å bruke kunnskapen som ligger i fagfeltet restaureringsøkologi kan slike områder istandsettes og få tilbake verdier og funksjoner som intakt natur. Energ iutvinning og samferdsel er to arealbaser...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

VELVET GREEN: Winter hardiness and management of velvet bentgrass (Agrostis canina) on putting greens in northern environments, dr,gr.stip

There is an increasing demand for research into recreational golf courses. Norwegian courses, often located in beautiful surroundings, have the potential of attracting national and international players, but they are often hampered by winter damages and h ave few resources to maintain adequate qu...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Improved methods for detection and strain identification of Tobacco rattle virus in Norway

Potetproduksjonen I Norge har I flere år vært skadelidende på grunn av rustflekksjuke - brune ringer og flekker - i potetknollene. Disse symptomene gjør potetene uegnet både til matpotet, pommes frites og potetgullproduksjon. Rustflekksjuke er hovedsakeli g forårsaket av to virus: potetmopptoppvi...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 127 Assessment of validity of the dairy health recording systems in the Nordic countries (DAHREVA)

The disease control schemes of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden were elaborated in a 1-year NKJ pilot project in 2001 (project number NKJ: 1276). The pilot project suggested three possible main reasons for differences in the numbers of treatment record s: 1) differences in the recording system...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Viken

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

New methods for organic raspberry production in polyethylene tunnels

Raspberries for the fresh market is a new and very profitable crop in Norway, and the production in polyethylene tunnels is increasing rapidly. In Norwegian organic production, the experience so far is that using tunnels is a prerequisite if growing for t he fresh market. The project focuses on t...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Viken

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Innovation in small scale rural tourism: How to organise and co-operate for improvement and expansion?

The main objective of this project is to amend knowledge about how small scale rural tourism can expand through innovation and improved organisation. Research questions: 1: Identify how innovation is understood and interpreted among small scale rural tourism firms? What kind of innovation occ...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Reducing campylobacter jejuni in the food chain by modifying the upper digestive tract of slaughter chicken

The zoonotic pathogen C. jejuni is the leading cause of food-borne bacterial diarrhoeal disease throughout the world. C. jejuni readily colonize poultry and represents a major problem for the poultry industry and is a potential public health hazard throug h its high ability to survive in unproces...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Safe grains: Mycotoxin prevention through resistant wheat and oats

In 2004 there were alarming levels of mycotoxins like DON and T-2/HT-2in Norwegian wheat and oats. In 2005 the latter levels in oats were prohibitive for e.g. horsefeed. The present proposal builds on a decade of Norwegian cereal breeding and research to introduce/identify resistance against the ...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Viken

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Rapid DNA-based prediction of mycotoxin levels in food and feed

The major mycotoxin producers in foods in Norway and Europe are members of the genera Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium. Two major classes of mycotoxins produced by Fusarium spp. are trichothecenes and fumonisins. The biosynthetic pathways involve gen es organised in (Tri- and Fum-) gene clus...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Viken

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Technology and methods using high-density microarrays for detection of unknown genetic modifications in plants, fungi and bacteria

To ensure the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they are subjected to risk assessment prior to release into the environment and use in e.g. food production. Such known GMOs are considered to be as safe as conventional varieties. GMOs for whi ch publicly available descriptions are un...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Viken

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Optimized quality and yield of plum and apple by regulation of flowers and fruitlets

Consistent cropping of high quality fruit is important for the fruit industry where technology for cost effective and environmentally friend methods for crop regulation is highly wanted. Due to alternate bearing, Norwegian fruit growers are not able to se rve the apple market regular with the amo...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Viken

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Shape of lactation curve, with special reference to feeding strategy, health, fertility, and economic outcome in dairy

Summary The total milk production during a full lactation is determined by the peak and the shape of the lactation curve. A primarily analysis of the mean lactation curves for different large herds under Norwegian conditions revealed a large and substant ial differences from one herd to another....

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Feral sheep in coastal heaths - developing a sustainable local industry in vulnerable cultural landscapes, dr.gr.stip.

Year-round sheep farming on the Norwegian west coast has a history dating back several millennia. This important part of our cultural heritage has resulted in a distinct breed of animals, the feral sheep, that has evolved in close interaction with the cre ation and maintenance of a unique semi-na...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Viken

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Landscape planning versus real world landscape changes

This project will study changes in land use on a municipal scale, based on analyses of existing, up-dated digital maps (DMK) and older versions to be digitised from existing analogue format. Four to six municipalities in the Oslo Fjord region will be chos en as study areas, dependent on data avai...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Viken

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Automatic weed assessment for precision spraying in cereals

The load of herbicides on Norwegian cereals fields is unnecessarily high. The spraying represents an unnecessary cost for farmers, in Norway estimated to about 20 millions NOK yearly, and lots of herbicides superfluously spread to the environment. The mos t important reason for this excessive her...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Viken

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Preclinical diagnosis of prion disease

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a threat to food safety and to human and animal health. Diagnosis of these diseases and early detection of the infective agent is vital for future spread and prevention of disease. The identification of candidate molecules as biomarkers of pre...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Væskebasert såing - utvikling av dyrkingsteknikk

Væskebasert såteknikk eller våtsåing, er ein relativt ny metode som det til no er utført lite forsking om, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Såfrø vert blanda med væske og plassert anten i eller oppå jorda med eitt eller anna spreieutstyr. Væska er ofte b laut husdyrgjødsel som vert spreidd med u...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Rogaland

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