project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
GO AGROFACTORY: New agricultural development opportunities based on the comprehensive use of biofactory tobacco varieties
Activities
The project activities can be grouped into four broad categories: activities related to improved annotation of the Nicotiana tabacum genome; activities related to the preparation and request for authorization of voluntary releases of GMOs; activities related to the agronomic study of tobacco varieties (thaumatin and anatabine); activities related to the extraction and purification of the compound anatabine and development and optimization of the integration of NGT lines in a biorefinery process.
Project details
- Main funding source
- CAP Strategic Plans 2023-2027 for Operational Groups
- Additional funding source
- No additional funding source
- Project contribution to EU Strategies
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- Bringing back agricultural area under high-diversity landscape features
- Facilitating access to fast broadband internet in rural areas
- Territorial scope
- Cross-border
Budget information
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EAFRD contribution EUR 256 360.7680%
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National co-financing EUR 64 090.1920%
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EAFRD contribution EUR 81 230.5480%
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National co-financing EUR 20 307.6320%
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EAFRD contribution EUR 134 714.2180%
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National co-financing EUR 33 678.5520%
2 Practice Abstracts
La pérdida de competitividad de una buena parte de los cultivos herbáceos tradicionales afecta gravemente la viabilidad de las explotaciones. Recientemente, fruto de los esfuerzos de investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías de mejora genética, están surgiendo nuevos cultivos industriales innovadores que basan su viabilidad en su alto contenido en uno o más compuestos de alto valor añadido. El objetivo de este proyecto es la optimización de las prácticas de cultivo y del procesamiento de nuevas variedades de tabaco biofactoría para su aprovechamiento integral y escalado a nivel comercial. Al final del proyecto se espera conseguir alcanzar los siguientes resultados para los usuarios finales: anotación mejorada del genoma de Nicotiana tabacum; establecimiento de los procedimientos óptimos de cultivo; maximización del proceso de procesamiento y biorrefinería; y protocolos de trazabilidad. El objetivo de este proyecto es por tanto avanzar decisivamente en el desarrollo comercial de estas nuevas variedades y dar el empuje decisivo para la implementación definitiva de los primeros cultivos biofactoría en Europa.
The loss of competitiveness of a large part of traditional herbaceous crops is seriously affecting the viability of farms. Recently, as a result of research and development efforts in breeding technologies, new innovative industrial crops are emerging that base their viability on their high content of one or more high value-added compounds. The overall objective is the optimization of cultivation practices and processing of new biofactory tobacco varieties for their full utilization and scaling up to the commercial level.
At the end of the project it is expected to achieve the following results for end users: improved annotation of the Nicotiana tabacum genome; guide to growing practices for tobacco with high thaumatin content; GMO crop biosafety requirements guide; thaumatin processing and extraction guide; guide to high anatabine tobacco growing practices; anatabine processing and extraction guide; maximization of the biorefinery process (zero waste); NGT traceability manual.
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