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UPSC Berzelii Centre for Forest Biotechnology is one of four Berzelii centres, financed via a unique collaboration between Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and the Swedish Research Council (VR).
Berzelii centres are performing excellent basic research, with clear ideas about possible applications and in close collaboration with industry.
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Our vision is to develop the research environment at UPSC to become the world's most innovative milieu where top-class basic research in plant science is translated into innovations with commercial potential. This will help the Swedish wood-based industries to stay competitive in the 21st century and enable the creation of new companies and industries based on the sustainable production and use of renewable plant raw materials with new and superior properties. This will allow the development of more efficient and advanced production of wood and wood-derived products for new materials and bio fuels.

The research efforts have been focused, in three Task forces
- Tree growth and productivity.
- Wood development and wood quality.
- Seasonal and age control of perennial growth and development.
concerned with the basic biology and chemistry underlying important traits in forest trees.

The Berzelii centre has given support directly to some of the participating Research groups.

The centre has also supported:
- Applied "Proof-of-concept" projects
- Cooperation project with the industry
- Strategic projects

The Organisation of the centre is described Here

The Centre has six industrial partners: Sveaskog, Holmen Skog, Bergvik Skog, Stora Enso, SweTree Technologies and Syngenta Seeds.

The Centre is planned to be active from 2007 to 2016 and will have a turnover of more than 200 million SEK, of which one half is funded by VR and VINNOVA and the other half is matching funding from SLU, Umeå University and the industrial partners. The centre welcome new industrial partners interested in finding out how new plant and forest biotechnology knowledge and innovations can be applied