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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: John Passioura
DESCRIPTION:The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the next seminar in our Talking Plant Science series presented by Dr John Passioura. \nTranslational Research in Agriculture: How effectively does it work?\n‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops. Most of the failure has come from laboratory-based attempts to ameliorate abiotic stresses. Dealing with biotic stress has been much more successful; the control of pests and weeds is often enabled by transforming crops with single genes\, for such genes have little or no influence on a crop’s metabolism. By contrast\, abiotic stress varies with the weather; i.e. crops respond systemically\, over a range of levels of organisation (e.g. organelles\, cells\, tissues\, organs)\, with many feedbacks and feedforwards. Drought is the most pervasive form of abiotic stress. There are several thousand papers that have searched\, ineffectively\, for ‘drought resistance’\, a term that usually defies useful definition. By contrast\, dealing with a limited water supply (e.g. inadequate seasonal rainfall)\, rather than with ‘drought’\, has effectively increased water-limited yield through agronomic innovation based on improving water-use efficiency. A major reason for the predominant failure of translational research from laboratory to field is that the peer-review system is too narrow; i.e. reviewers have the same backgrounds as the authors. Effective translation requires the addition of reviewers who can assess effective pathways from laboratory to field. \n \nDr John Passioura\nJohn Passioura graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science (1958) followed by a Ph.D. in soil chemistry (1963) from Melbourne University\, Australia. He joined CSIRO in 1966 after 3 years as a Postdoc in Europe. He currently holds an emeritus appointment at ANU in Canberra\, and was formerly Leader of the Crop Adaptation Program in CSIRO. His research has ranged over: soil chemistry and physics (transport of water and nutrients in soil and uptake by roots); plant physiology (water relations\, drivers of growth rate and adaptation to abiotic stresses); and wheat pre-breeding and agronomy directed at improving water-limited productivity of dryland crops. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1994.  He spent 6 years on partial secondment to the Australian Grains Research and Development Organization (GRDC) where he oversaw a portfolio of projects on soil and water management which aimed at improving both the productivity and environmental performance of Australian grain farms. Since then he has written several reviews relating to crop productivity and the pursuit of effective agricultural research. He has also worked as a consultant to the CGIAR\, undertaking high-level reviews of several of their programs\, existing or prospective.
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