We congratulate all researchers of Lund University and SLU Alnarp who received funding for plant and agriculture-related research projects.
In total, both institutions in these particular fields received 43 MSEK from VR and 28 MSEK from Formas. The newly funded projects are:
Swedish Research Council, VR; Awarded grants for natural and engineering sciences
Magne Friberg, LU
Adaptiva och icke-adaptiva drivkrafter för diversifiering av komplexa karaktärer
4.16 million SEK
Sissi Lozada Gobilard, LU
Förare av urval på blommattribut i en rumslig-temporär kontext
4.4 million SEK
Maria Vilain Rørvang, SLU
SmellWell: Uppklara den förbisedda länken mellan lantbruksdjurens luktsinne och positiva känslor
4.4 million SEK
Swedish Research Council, VR; Grant for interdisciplinary research environments
Edith Hammer, LU with co-applicant Ramesh Vetukuri (SLU)
Markmikrobernas dynamik i tid och rum avslöjas genom underjordisk mikroskopi
30 million SEK
Formas Annual Open Call 2024 – Research projects for researchers early in their career:
Chloë Raderschall, SLU
StripES: Strip cropping for harnessing ecosystem services – a farm-scale system design
6.1 million SEK
Loenie Schönbeck, SLU
Trees under stress – revealing inter- and intraspecific variation of heat and drought tolerance for climate-smart forest management in Europe
6.1 million SEK
Bjørn Dueholm, SLU
Expanding the functional genomics toolbox: uncovering mechanisms of cooking-quality defects in pea and common bean
6.1 million SEK
Ronja Wonneberger, SLU
Identification of genes conferring resistance to bird cherry-oat aphid in Hordeum spontaneum
4.5 million SEK
Lanhui Wang, LU
Rewilding effects on ecosystem resilience to droughts and wildfires across Europe
5.2 million SEK
Congratulations to all of you!
PS: If we have missed someone on the list, please contact anna.manourova@slu.se