Rational design of plant systems for sustainable generation of value-added industrial products
Category
FP7 Project with U.S. partner
Short name and number
SmartCell (222716)
Area
Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology
Description
Plants sustainably produce low levels of secondary metabolites of high industrial value. However, they are often too complex to be economically manufactured by chemical synthesis. Advanced metabolic engineering and exploitation of plants as Green Factories has been prevented due to poorly understood metabolic pathways in plants and the regulation thereof. SmartCell brings together 14 leading European academic laboratories and four industrial partners.
Participating Countries
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland.
Name of US Partner
Dow AgroSciences LLC
Contact
VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS