§ Mr. MitchellTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to this answer of 23 July,Official Report, column 639, concerning research into use of crops yielding vegetable oils, if he will list the principal research projects his Department is funding, indicating the cost of each to public funds. [11820]
§ Mr. RookerThe information requested is as follows:
Project title Total cost(£) Genetic engineering of oilseed rape to produce products of defined acyl variation and low downstream processing 320,697 Oilseed rape seed loss-improving strength of pods by using engineering fracture analysis of genetically diverse pods 348,000 Genetic improvement of oilseed rape for reduced susceptibility to pod shatter 607,193 Regulation of pod shatter in oilseed rape 190,210 A knowledge based assessment of rapeseed oil as a pesticide adjuvant 243,261 Vegetable oils with specific fatty acids 87,840 Pesticide adjuvants from vegetable oils 68,092 Cost benefit assessment, including life cycle analysis, of oils produced from UK-grown crops compared with mineral oil 192,754 Comparative field trils of alternative UK road transport fuels 33,520 Linseed agronomy 1,015,216