Biotechnology in Belgium

Water and Forestry Unit

 

Address

Prof. Pierre André
Water and Forestry Unit
Department of Environmental Sciences and Territory Management
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
Place Croix du Sud 2
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Tel.: +32-10- 47 36 98
Fax: +32-10- 47 36 97

Biotechnological sectors: agriculture (plants and seeds) and forestry

Keywords: genetic, transformation, in vitro, somatic, embryogenesis, aquaculture.

 

Major research topics in biotechnology

Within the Walloon Regional Group for the improvement of Forestal Specis (GRAGEF), the Water and Forestry Unit of the UCL is particularly involved in the development techniques for in vitro multiplication of forestal gymnosperma (Pseudotsuga, Picea, Laryx, Thuja). Current research is carried out on the control of ontogenic ageing of clones, in vitro multiplication by axillary proliferation or somatic embryogenesis and genetic transformation.

In the field of hydrology, the research topics of the Unit concerning biotechnologies are mostly the breeding, selection, feeding and growth of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.), rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.).

 

Main collaborators: J.J. Fourré, P. Giot, O. Charlier, P. Berger and D. Verbois.

 

Selected publications

Misson J.P., De cannière Ch. & André P. 1991. Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata D. Don ex. Lambert). In: Bajaj Y.P.S. Trees. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry. Volume 16 (III), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

Nef L. 1991. Utilisation des facteurs génétiques et environnementaux dans la résistance des forêts envers les phytophages, 10 ème Congrès Forestier de Paris, 1991.

 

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