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Sustainable systems from natural resources: Development of metabolomic fingerprint technology

Reference	BBS/E/G/00003009
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Jon Moorby
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Inst of Grassland and Environmental Res
Department	Inst of Grassland and Environmental Res Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	913,420
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2003
End date	31/03/2007
Duration	48 months

Abstract

Sustainable systems from natural resources: development of metabolomic fingerprint technology to identify nutrient/productivity interactions in livestock. This project aims to develop a better understanding of the interaction between the environment and animal health, welfare and efficiency in order to generate new standards for sustainability which take into account the need to reconcile agricultural and environmental objectives. Due to the numbers of factors which interact (including climate, management, nutrition, genetic merit, physiological status) and which are difficult to control and characterise, a new approach of metabolomic fingerprinting will be applied. Correlations will be sought between defined metabolites or metabolite profiles analysed in blood samples and animal condition, influenced by the factors outlined above. This will allow important relationships to be identified without the need for a detailed understanding of the system at the outset, and will give direction to more detailed studies which can use more conventional methods.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
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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