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Mr. Mitchell
To 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. Rooker
The 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 |