Established in 1998, Dina Risø covers the Dina activities at Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, involving at present (2001) mainly the Plant Research Department.
The Plant Research Department is engaged in basic and applied research to improve the scientific basis for developing new methods and technology for the future, environmentally benign industrial and agricultural production, thus exerting less stress and strain on the environment. The different programmes in the department reflect the various research approaches in the Department to achieve this aim: Plant Environment Interactions, Resistance Biology, DLF-Risø Biotechnology, Plant Products and Plant Nutrition.
Objectives
The main objective of Dina Risø is to enhance the use of advanced computer based mathematical and statistical techniques within the Risø research areas. In co-operation with Dina both the improvement of knowledge of the present staff and the education of young scientists shall be carried out.
Research projects
The research in Dina Risø has only a short history. PhD students
and young scientists have profited from taking part in PhD courses
and workshops. Ongoing and future PhD projects are focussing and will
focus on methodological analyses of QTL (quantitative trait loci) in
relation to marker assisted breeding of crop plants, IT in relation
to sensor data from precision farming, mathematical and statistical
models for population dynamics in space and time; collaboration on
bioinformatics is under development.
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Updated: January 2001