Projects | Agrotecnio

Agrofood Biomass Comprehensive Valorization (APRIBA)

by admin | Mar 15, 2021

Food industry in Europe produces about 230 million t/year of waste and by-products. APRIBA is designed to develop processes and methodologies focused on the transformation of by-products and wastes from various sources into added value products. We contribute to the...

Advances in Integrated Pest Control in Horticultural Crops

by admin | Mar 15, 2021

The project is a coordinate one between the University of Lleida (UdL), Agrotecnio, and the Catalan Institute for Agrarian Research and Technology (IRTA), and it is led by IRTA. The overall objective of the project is improving the biological control of pests in...

A RETrofitted RIce CELL for synthetic biology investigations and applications

by admin | Mar 15, 2021

The proposal (RETRICELL) has an overarching objective: to create viable industrially useful novel cells and intact plants with profound changes in their molecular and biosynthetic machineries. This objective will be underpinned by in depth fundamental mechanistic...

Regulation and biotechnology of carotenoid biosynthesis and accumulation in maize endosperm

by admin | Mar 15, 2021

Over the last two decades, a number of carotenogenic genes have been cloned and used to engineer plants with high levels of carotenoids. However, little is known concerning factors responsible for the regulation of carotenogenic gene expression in higher plants. This...

Preparation of aldehydes from fruit residues by enzymatic methods for application in tanning (ALDEFRUIT)

by admin | Mar 15, 2021

Bioeconomy uses renewable resources from different origins to produce food, materials and energy reconciling market demands with innovative and low-emissions processes. Food wastes constitute an important source of raw materials that can be transformed into valuable...