Plant biotechnology

 

Plants can ensure growth and welfare worldwide

 

Elite research area: Plant biotechnology

Stronger photosynthesis, enabling plants to withstand salt, drought and insect attacks. Plants which all by themselves and fully sustainably produce fuel, plastic, food and medicine. Higher yields and greater consideration for the environment. These are some of the perspectives for the projects which the researchers in LIFE’s plant biotechnology elite research area are looking into.

 

The researchers in LIFE’s elite research area within plant biotechnology are currently conducting research projects that may potentially help solve some of the biggest challenges of the future: increasing food shortages, oil shortages, pollution and climate change.

 

The elite research area, which consists of some 100 researchers, each with their individual field of expertise within plant biotech, uses state-of-the-art methods to explore the mysteries of plant dynamics to find the best way of making plants produce everything we need: food, medicine and energy.

We asked Professor Poul Erik Jensen eight sharp questions about the elite research area:

1. Where is plant biotechnology currently heading as a field?

2. How does LIFE contribute to plant biotech research worldwide?

3. Which other promising research projects would you like to mention?

4. If the elite research area becomes the projected success in the coming years, what do you hope to achieve?

5. How will LIFE students benefit from the elite research area?

6. What are your considerations in relation to collaborating with stakeholders such as companies, authorities or others that may have a particular interest in this specific elite research area?

7. Where can you follow the elite research area’s results ?

8. Who is behind the elite research area?

 

Facts on LIFEs elite research areas

 

LIFE is one of the world's leading university environments within life sciences. It has eight cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental elite research areas and six emerging elite research areas.