Code
179P05615
Duration
01 February 2015 → 31 January 2016
Funding
Private funding via IWT/VLAIO
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural animal production
- Agricultural plant production
- Agriculture, land and farm management
- Other agriculture, forestry, fisheries and allied sciences
Keywords
plants
Project description
The business partners want to investigate the feasibility of a new technique for targeted mutagenesis, CRISPR, for the improvement of vegetatively propagated crops. The proposed innovations are new floricultural and fruit varieties.