Plant Biology and Biogeochemistry Department annual report 2000

The Department of Plant Biology and Biogeochemistry is engaged in basic and applied research to improve the scientific basis for developing new methods and technology for an environmentally benign industrial and agricultural production in the future. TheDepartment's expertise covers a wide range of areas needed to develop crops that meet the demands to increase agricultural production for a growing population, to produce plants with improved nutritional value, to develop crops that deliver renewableresources to the industry, and to generate plants that are adapted to the future climate.

The projects are organized in six research programmes that are linked to each other through the individual expertise that is delivered by each of the programs tothe rest of the department.