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Butterfly monitoring schemes could be used for detecting the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity
Butterfly monitoring networks, such as the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (CBMS) initiative, could be used to assess the impacts of intensive agriculture and transgenic crops on biodiversity. This is what researchers of the University of Lleida (UdL) and...
European Researchers’ Night 2020
At Agrotecnio we will participate together with the University of Lleida (UdL) in the #EuropeanResearchersNight, a scientific dissemination event in which we will bring research closer to the general public. Specifically, two Agrotecnio-UdL research groups will be...
Weed science open seminars
To commemorate the International Year of Plant Health, within the Weed Science subject of the Master's Degree in Integrated Crop Protection of the University of Lleida, online seminars have been organized with national and international experts in Weed Science. The...
Agrotecnio submits two research projects to the PANDÈMIES 2020 funding call
The Fundació Centre de Recerca en Agrotecnologia - Agrotecnio has submitted two research projects to the Generalitat of Catalonia's funding call "Replegar-se per créixer: l'impacte de les pandèmies en un món sense fronteres visibles" (PANDÈMIES 2020). Specifically,...
Agrotecnio presents its lines of research to the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food
The Fundació Centre de Recerca en Agrotecnologia-Agrotecnio received yesterday the visit of the minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Teresa Jordà, who knew first-hand the scientific projects carried out in this CERCA...
Teresa Capell collects the Creu de Sant Jordi
The Agrotecnio researcher Teresa Capell collected yesterday the Creu de Sant Jordi award:"for all their research in the field of agricultural biotechnology, which have focused on the need for an improvement in the quality of life of people." The President of the...
Paul Christou Narcís Monturiol Medal
The Agrotecnio Applied Biotechnology PI and ICREA research Paul Christou, who also was Agrotecnio director from 2013 to 2015, will receive the Narcís Monturiol Medal awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The government's resolution highlights that "he was...
An Article and an interview by an Agrotecnio researcher posted in newspapers websites
The researcher Victor Resco de Dios, forest management group, has been interviewed by "La Vanguardia" newspaper about the severity of desertification and drough. An article in "Eldiario.es" was also posted from a Resco publication about the summer resurrection of...
An Article with the participation of an Agrotecnio researcher in El Pais
The researcher Jordi Voltas, from the Forest Management group, participed in this article about the prehistoric Iberian diet was based on cereals and, only for the breed, also on meat. The atomic analysis of human, animal and plant remains lets you know what the...
Teresa Capell Reseacher of Agrotecnio will recieve the Creu de Sant Jordi award
Teresa Capell, researcher of the Applied Biotechnology group, will receive the Creu de Sant Jordi "for all her research in the field of agricultural biotechnology, which have focused on the need for an improvement in the quality of life of people". The Generalitat's...
An Agrotecnio researcher takes part in a research that conclude Australia fires show climate change is ahead of schedule
Climate change and drought are behind the great fires that have hit Australia between September 2019 and January 2020, according to a research led by the University of Western Sydney in which the Agrotecnio Center researcher Víctor Resco de Dios participated. The...
Marian Moralejo was interviewed by the Spanish Corn Technicians Association
The researcher Marian Moralejo from the Crop Physiology group was interviewed by the Spanish Corn Technicians Association about the research tasks that support the development of new varieties of barley with functional properties for human and animal consumption. In...