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Sustainability of the food chain

Reference	BBS/E/F/00042288
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Keith Waldron
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	694,714
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2005
End date	31/03/2010
Duration	60 months

Abstract

The project will reduce waste in the food-chain, thereby contributing to sustainability, via improvements in recovery, recycling and recovery. We will initiate and exploit IFR and related research relevant to sustainability of the food chain with special reference to the exploitation of food-chain residues and co-products. This will be achieved by developing greater understanding of how to disassemble plant structures. We will develop combination approaches (using biochemical, chemical and physical processes) for selectively extracting and modifying cell-wall and intracellular components for exploitation as functional ingredients. These will include nutritionally and pharmacologically-functional biopolymers and oligomers, high-value rheologically-active polymers, and structuring agents.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	Crop Science, Industrial Biotechnology, Plant Science
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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