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| Bertebos Prize 2007 was awarded to Professor Ingo Potrykus, Magden, Switzerland. “Professor Potrykus has been a leading scientist in the development of methods for DNA transformation in plants. Through the new techniques, important hereditary characters, for instance disease resistance and improved quality, have been added to crops such as wheat, rice and cassava. In the particular case of "Golden Rice" Prof. Potrykus and his team has engineered a rice variety to produce b-caroten. b-caroten is a precursor to vitamin A - an important ingredient to prevent blindness. Lack of vitamin A causes today blindness to numerous children in developing countries. Professor Potrykus has been working tirelessly to resolve all the patent and legal obstacles that for several years has prevented the free use of "Golden Rice" by many rice breeding institutes and small-scale farmers". More about Ingo Potrykus on the web. Bertebos Prize was initiated in 1996 by Brita and Olof Stenström in order to promote research, development and education within the food industry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry has been entrusted by the Bertebos Foundation to elect the prize winner. The Prize consists of a diploma and 300 000 SEK (approx. 28 000 EUR). Bertebos Prize was made possible through a gift of the Bertebos Foundation. The prize is awarded by the Academy every second year at the annual Commemorative Meeting to a person who may be found in any country and the winner is requested to have carried out research of distinguished quality and expected practical use within Food, Agriculture, Ecology or Animal Health. Golden Rice - Conference 8-9 September 2008 The Bertebos Conference 2008 was held in Falkenberg, Sweden, on 8-9 September, 2008. The theme was "Golden Rice and other Biofortified food Crops for Developing Countries". Key note speaker was professor Ingo Potrykus, Switzerland. The conference gathered scientists from around the world as lecturers and participants. Download the Conference Invitation to the right! Questions should be addressed to: Åke Barklund, e-mail: aake.barklund@ksla.se; tel. +46 8 54 54 77 02. The conference was a co-arrangement between the Academy and the Bertebos Foundation residing in Falkenberg, Sweden. The Bertebos Foundation has its origin in an agricultural enterprise which dates back many hundred years. |
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| Previous prize winners 2005 Professor Piotr Kowalik, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland ”for outstanding multidisciplinary research in water dynamics in agriculture and forestry and for pioneering development and implementation of waste water treatment methods in constructed wetlands and in energy crops production systems”. Bertebos Conference 2006 was held in Falkenberg, Sweden, on 14-16 May, 2006. The theme was "Water and Agriculture". Read more about the Bertebos Conference 2006 to the right! More about Piotr Kowalik on the web. 2003 Professor Erik Steen Jensen, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark “for pioneering research in organic agriculture focused on plant production and soil biology by development of stable isotope methodology for analysing nitrogen and carbon dynamics” and Professor John R. Porter, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark “for internationally well known multidisciplinary research of complex agroecosystems by biological modelling of responses to their environment, especially the impact of climate change on arable and energy crops”. Bertebos Conference 2003 was held in Falkenberg, Sweden, on 14-16 September 2003. The theme was "Ecosystem services in European agriculture – theory and practice". Read more about the Bertebos Conference 2003 to the right! More about Erik Steen Jensen on the web. More about John R. Porter on the web. 2001 Professor Donald Grierson, University of Nottingham, UK “for his pioneering research in understanding of ripening and senescence in plants. He has played a major role in developing different gene technologies, such as sense and antisense methods, for identifications of the genes acting in the synthesis of ethylene. His research has been of major importance to clarify the role of ethylene in fundamental life processes in plants, especially fruit ripening”. Bertebos Conference 2001 was held in Falkenberg, Sweden, on 17-19 September 2001. The theme was "Crop and Forest Biotechnology for the Future". Read more about the Bertebos Conference 2001 to the right! More about Donald Grierson on the web. 1999 Professor Wolfgang Witte, Robert- Koch-Institut, Wernigerode, Germany ”for pioneering, scientific tracing of risks for animal and human health as well as for the environment associated with the use of antibiotic feed additives.” More about Wolfgang Witte on the web. 1997 Professor Christopher Polge, Cambridge, UK “for his exceptional scientific contribution to the methods within animal reproduction especially for the bull semen preservation and its use in genetic selection”. More about Christopher Polge on the web. To the top of the page! Short cut to this page: http://www.ksla.se/dir/36/index.html |
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Bertebos Conference 2003 |
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Bertebos Prize - Swedish version |
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Bertebos Conference 2008 - PROGRAMME |
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Bertebos Conference 2008 - REPORT |
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Bertebos Conference 2006 - PROGRAMME |
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Bertebos Conference 2003 - REPORT |
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Bertebos Conference 2001 - REPORT |
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Invitation to Prize Nomination 2011 |
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