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The main aim of the Ecogenomics Consortium (EC) is: to explore the genetic resources of soils to create a major leap in understanding and unlocking the wide richness of functional capacities with respect to sanitation, disease suppression, production, ecological functioning and biodiversityWe realize that this is an ambitious aim, which requires detailed, dedicated long-term investigations. In order to improve the feasibility of this aim, the project plan focuses on a three key research areas, which will be addressed during the six-year lifetime of the Ecogenomics project plan. It is the intention of this research consortium to extend research on this main aim far beyond the 6-year subsidy, which the consortium obtained from ICES/KIS III within the framework of the “innovative clusters genomics” initiative of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative. In fact at this moment several initiatives are taken to expand the Ecogenomics programme to become a nationwide research and valorisation programme with an ambition to become a leading centre for Ecogenomics research in the European Union. The research programme of the EC has been readjusted in 2007 to improve opportunities for collaboration and integration and to reduce heterogeneity in approaches between individual researchers and research groups, by focussing on a limited number of central research areas and technologies used, centred on a limited number of environments investigated commonly by research groups. The central research areas selected are:
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