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Molecular Wood Biotechnology
litter (Badalyan et al. 2003a,b, Badalyan & Kües 2004, Sánchez Hernández 2007),
vegetative and sexual reproduction of these group of fungi (Polak et al. 2001,
Kües et al. 2002a, 2004, Lu et al. 2003, Badalyan et al. 2004, Domingo-Martínez
2005, Fischer & Kües 2003, 2006, James et al. 2006, Liu et al. 2006), and interactions
with other organisms including animals (Navarro-Gonzaléz et al. 2007).
The NHN
Technology transfer of results from the laboratory to industrial application
requires interactions with industry. To this end, the “Kompetenznetz für Nachhaltige
Holzforschung” (NHN; Competence Net for Sustainable Wood Utilisation;
in the three-year beginning phase known as “Niedersächsisches Kompetenznetz
für Nachhaltige Holzforschung”; http://www.kompetenznetz-holz.de/; Fig. 3)
was founded in Göttingen between the Georg-August-University Göttingen
(founding members: Prof. Dr. A. Hüttermann, Prof. Dr. A. Kharazipour,
Prof. Dr. U. Kües and Prof. Dr. A. Polle, all Institute of Forest Botany, and Prof.
Dr. H. Militz, Institute of Wood Biology and Wood Technology; later entry:
Prof. Dr. B. Möhring, Institute of Forest Economics), the Fachhochschule
Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen (founding members: Prof. Dr. F. Bombosch,
Fakultät für Ressourcenmanagement, Prof. Dr. W. Viöl, Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften
und Technik), the Niedersächsische Landesversuchsanstalt (now the
Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt) in Göttingen (founding member:
Prof. Dr. H. Spellmann) and the Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut Braunschweig (WKI,
Fraunhofer Institut für Holzforschung; founding member: Prof. Dr. R. Marutzky)
and the Technical University of Braunschweig (later entry: Dr. Ing. H.-W. Hoffmeister,
Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechniken, IWF) and
partners from the industry.
Fig. 3 Logo of the NHN
Kompetenznetz für Nachhaltige Holznutzung
With the different partners, the NHN represents the whole forest-wood-chain.
For the first time in Germany, it brings together such different expertise as found
in forest management, in wood technology and industry, in biotechnology and
molecular biology, in mechanical engineering, and in economy. The overall activities
of the NHN divide in Research and Development (R & D) and Information
and Marketing (I & M). Main research areas include ecological and market-oriented
forest management (for background reading see Chapters 2 to 6 of this book),
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