Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology

The department conducts high-quality research and undergraduate and postgraduate education at an international level. We collaborate with society and industry to advance a bio-based economy, where forest biomaterials play a key role.

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  • 2025-10-23

    New insights into how plants regulate the uptake of organic nitrogen

    Plants can absorb amino acids as an alternative nitrogen source to nitrate and ammonium but little is known about how this process is regulated. PhD student Laura Tünnermann has now identified new molecular regulators, offering insights that may help reduce fertilizer-related pollution.
  • 2025-10-23

    Extended lactations in multiparous dairy cows

    The aim of this project was to investigate the effect of extended calving intervals on fertility, milk production, and culling in the second lactation, as well as the relationship between calving intervals, milk yield in the second lactation, and cow mortality during the first month after calving.
  • 2025-10-23

    Local fishing closure improved European eel stock on the Swedish west coast

    The number of eels leaving the Swedish west coast to spawn in the Sargasso Sea has increased since eel fishing was closed in 2012. This is shown in a new study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), which for the first time evaluates the effects of the closure.
  • 2025-10-23

    New knowledge on how to establish and manage planted birch

    Birch trees may recover from light to moderate browsing damage. And heavy thinning resulted in the strongest individual tree diameter growth. These are some of the results in a new doctoral thesis from SLU by Andis Zvirgzdins.
  • 2025-10-20

    Successful "summit" of 2025

    On Friday, October 15, around 85 students gathered in Alnarp for the third edition of the Forest Student Summit.