Biorenewables & Environmental Change

 

The aims of BEC are:

• to provide practical solutions for the  mitigation of climate change including the development of high yielding dedicated energy crops adapted to current and future environments  and conversion technologies
• to understand the impacts of environmental change on plants  including developing a mechanistic understanding of plant stress tolerance focusing on signaling mechanisms; impacts on plant interactions and identifying predictive metabolite biomarkers for environmental stress.

 

 

BEC research and teaching is clustered in four thematic areas:

 

1. Energy Crop Biology
2. Energy Crop Breeding
3. Biomass Conversion and Biorefining
4. Environmental Change and Stress

 

Programme Grants

• Strategic Programme Grant
• SUPERGEN-Bioenergy

List of Projects

Teaching

Industry/commercial

BEC Staff

Extension Team

http://www.grassdevcentre.co.uk/

http://www.willow4wales.co.uk/welcome.htm

Analytical Chemistry

http://www.intranet.ibers.aber.ac.uk/Services/AnalyticalChemistry/ (Staff Only)

Tissue Culture and transformation

http://www.intranet.ibers.aber.ac.uk/Services/TransformationTechnologies/ (Staff Only)