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Meet Suvi Häkkinen, Work Package 8 Leader
For Senior Scientist and Project manager at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Suvi Häkkinen believes that NPBTs (new plant breeding techniques) will definitely be used in the future as their...
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Meet Dr. Dirk Bosch, CHIC Project Leader
“I am fascinated by the enormous diversity of bioactive molecules that plants produce,” according to Dr. Dirk Bosch, a scientist with ca 30 years of research experience. His primary research activities...
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Meet Dr. Ingrid van der Meer, WP2 Coordinator
Dr. Ingrid van der Meer obtained her Ph.D. in Regulation of Plant Gene Expression at the Free University in Amsterdam and has subsequently gained over 25 years of research experience, including 18...
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Meet Dr. Paul Bundock, WP1 Coordinator
New plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) have a great future, according to Dr. Paul Buddock, Senior Scientist at Keygen, a biotechnology company located in Wageningen, The Netherlands. He believes that...
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Meet Maria Hingsamer!
“It is very interesting to collaborate in this project with the different project partners working in completely different fields, contributing with their expertise to a common goal, and work together...
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Meet Dr. Armin Spök, WP6 Coordinator
As a researcher, Dr. Armin Spök of TU Graz in Austria thinks that majority of the countries will facilitate market access type of NPBTs in the future, which will depend on how each country accepts this...
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Researchers develop chicory plants that contain medical compound: costunolide
An international research team from KeyGene and Wageningen University & Research, both in the Netherlands, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Germany, have developed chicory plants that...
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Genome editing successfully used to induce chicory plants to accumulate...
An international research team from KeyGene and Wageningen University & Research, both in the Netherlands, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Germany, have developed chicory plants that...
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Policy Recommendations
Policy Recommendations on New Genomic Techniques for European Plant Breeding Context These recommendations were developed in the context of the five-year EU-funded Research and Innovation Action CHIC...
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Policy Brief on research and innovation achievements
New genomic techniques for improving root chicory – a European niche crop Why targeting root chicory? CHIC (Chicory as a multipurpose crop for dietary fibre and medicinal terpenes) was a large European...
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