Royal visit as SLU presents Outstanding Veterinary Research Award
Under solemn and celebratory circumstances, the newly established Award for Outstanding Research in Veterinary Medicine was presented on 26 November 2025.
A global project offers new insights into biodiversity
Fieldwork for the ambitious Lifeplan project has now been completed. Over six years, teams across the world have collected vast amounts of data on life on Earth.
Chantal is making crop production more sustainable in Rwanda
“Sweden is opening my eyes from different angles,” says Chantal Uwituze, a PhD student from the University of Rwanda currently visiting SLU.
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News and events
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Sweden’s ditches and streams mapped better than ever using AI
Using high-resolution geographic data and a specially trained AI model, previously impossible maps have now become reality. PhD student Mariana Busarello at SLU in Umeå has mapped Sweden’s network of ditches and waterways at new levels of detail. -
Insects could provide comfort for future space travellers
Animals that accompanied long sea voyages in the past offered far more than food – they provided comfort and helped create routines for sailors. Insects could play a similar role on future space missions. -
More coherent Swedish policy needed for restoration of peatlands
The new EU Nature Restoration Law can be an important tool to form a coherent strategy on peatland restoration. A new SLU study shows that todays policies and regulations is fragmented and sometimes contradictory – something that makes it difficult to reach Swedish climate and conservation goals. -
Trees repurpose flowering gene toolkit to control winter growth stop
Deciduous trees and annual plants rely on the same ancestral genes, but evolution has assigned them different tasks. Now researchers from Sweden and China show that aspen trees use flowering-related genes to stop growth as winter approaches - yet in the opposite way compared to annual plants.
Research
Most recently published projects
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Best anaesthesia protocol for fish species and situation
There are over 30000 species of fish, living in a wide range of habitats. To treat ‘fish’ as one group is probably even less meaningful than to attempt to produce general guidelines for ‘mammals’. In this project, we will determine how different anaesthetics affect fish. -
Functional dogs
Ett forskningsprojekt om hundars lämplighet för olika typer av funktion i det moderna samhället -
OptiForValue
Optimising forest operations for sustainable forest management & high-value applications - OptiForValue.
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Robotic milking requires more than just technology
As milking robots become more common on Swedish farms, the way to detect mastitis is changing. Where daily contact between humans and animals was once relied on, monitoring is now done via sensors. An SLU study has investigated how farms with robots work with cows' udder health. -
From disaster to hope – how local hunters view the outbreak of African swine fever
In 2023, Sweden was hit by its first outbreak of African swine fever, and local hunters played a key role in managing the outbreak. A new study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) examines hunters’ experiences of working with the outbreak. -
Genes reveal what makes horse hooves strong for barefoot trotting Introduction:
Letting trotting horses compete without shoes – so-called barefoot trotting – can make them faster, but also increase the risk of wear and tear and damage to the hooves. Now, a new Swedish study shows that differences in gene expression can determine which horses have naturally stronger hooves.
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