Breakthrough technology: crops for the future 2012

Thursday 28th June 2012

9.30-16.00

Visitor centre, NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE

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Exploring how technical and scientific developments are seeking to respond to the need for crops that will provide increased yields, offer disease resistance and grow on marginal land with reduced inputs. Topics will include C4 photosynthetic pathways, hybrids and synthetic wheats.

Presentations

• Supergrass:- an informed opinion on whether to make wheat and rice with C4 pathway or an algal carbon concentrating mechanism
  Prof. Howard Griffiths – Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
• Why grow hybrid wheat?
  Colin Patrick, Trials and Seed Production Manager - Saaten Union
• Field demonstration of the NIAB synthetic wheat breeding programme
  Dr Phil Howell, Programme Leader, Genetics and Breeding - NIAB TAG
• Christobel Uauy, wheat geneticist, John Innes Centre/NIAB

Elevator Pitches

• Plant-parasitic nematodes: unseen enemies
  Keith Davies - KG Davies
• Making the wasteland bloom
  Dave Bailey & Peter Leggo - Cambridge University
• Foamstream
  Richard Hobbs - Weedingtech
• Lourish
  Bea Schlarb-Ridley, CPPS
• Mapping and manipulation recombination hotspots in plants
  Ian Henderson, Cambridge University
• Limiting transmission of plant viruses by using them to understand how plants kill or repel aphid vectors
  Neils Groen, Cambridge University
• Triticale breeding
  Daniel Kindred, ADAS
• OSR breeding and agronomy
  Pete Berry, ADAS
• Innovative Nematode Control Strategies’
  Rosane Curtis, BioNemaX UK LtdIncluded in the programme
• A guided tour of NIAB Innovation Farm field and glasshouse exhibits
• Opportunity to network over refreshments and during lunch
• If you have material that you would like to display at one of our events or have ideas for inclusion in the 2013 programme please contact [email protected]

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