Plant Success

Plant Success Research Retreat 2022
2022-05-30 - 2022-06-01 | The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel, 1 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000
The 2022 Plant Success Research Retreat will take place in Hobart, Tasmania from Monday 1 May to Wednesday 3 June. The retreat is open to all Centre Members to attend in person but virtual attendance will also be available.
Registration details to come.

Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Travis Britton
2022-05-20 10:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Zoom
This event is open to Centre Members only. If you are a Centre Member who would like to attend, please contact admin@plantsuccess.org for the Zoom invitation.

Supporting Indigenous Data: Introducing the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels
2022-05-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Concerns over Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous rights under the Nagoya Protocol underpin the development and application of Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels/Notices. The Local Contexts system which delivers the Labels and Notices, is focused on implementing Indigenous provenance, protocols, and permissions into digital infrastructures.The Labels and Notices are designed to provide a persistent and durable connection between collaborating Indigenous communities and researchers, research projects, genetic resources, Digital Sequence Information (DSI), and associated traditional knowledge, that exist as metadata in sample/data repositories .
The Biocultural Labels support Nagoya Protocol expectations around the disclosure and origins of genetic resources (i.e. Provenance Label) and help to define and communicate Indigenous community expectations and consent about appropriate and future use of genetic resources and derived benefits. Importantly BC Labels may only be applied by an Indigenous community, and they are both human readable and machine readable. Each Label has a persistent unique identifier and the Label metadata (as text) is customized to each community context.
This presentation will introduce the Labels and Notices and explore the responsibilities that universities and researchers have to practically implement mechanisms that enable transparency around Indigenous rights and interests in support of Indigenous data sovereignty.
About People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
The People, Plants, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds.
Today people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory, sacred forms of sustenance, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously, they may be repositories of gene sequences, Indigenous knowledge, bulk commodities, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs.
This lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements, whether in farmers’ fields, scientific laboratories, international markets, or elsewhere.

Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Kalpani Galaihalage and Samuel Barton
2022-04-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom

Talking Plant Science: Charlie Messina
2022-03-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is proud to bring you the first seminar in our new Talking Plant Science series.
Charlie Messina is a Professor of Predictive Breeding in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the University of Florida. His program focuses on the development of prediction methods for agriculture and horticulture.

Stand and Deliver: Biopiracy, Law, and the Balkanization of the Genescape
2022-02-22 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
For 40 years now the users and suppliers of agricultural biodiversity have traded charges of highway robbery. Seed companies demand that purchasers of their seed pay a royalty and respect the intellectual property rights they hold on the crop varieties they claim as their inventions. Peasants, Indigenous peoples, and biodiverse nations demand that they be compensated for access to the valuable genetic resources that they now realize they have been delivering free for the use of the seed companies.
As intellectual property and contract law have been extended globally to facilitate the profitability of the international seed trade, so has international law been developed to forestall biopiracy and provide “benefit sharing” in return for “access” to genetic resources. Kloppenburg will describe the inadequacies of this balancing act, and show how it has resulted in a deeply problematic “Balkanization” of the genescape that benefits no one. As an alternative, he looks to “open source” legal arrangements – especially those with “copyleft” provisions – as a possible foundation for a more just and regenerative regime of the use and exchange of plant genetic resources. FREE THE SEED!
About People, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series
The People, Plants, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds.
Today people engage with and relate to plants in diverse and sometimes divergent ways. Seeds—and the plants that they produce—may be receptacles of memory, sacred forms of sustenance, or sites of resistance in struggles over food sovereignty. Simultaneously, they may be repositories of gene sequences, Indigenous knowledge, bulk commodities, or key components of economic development projects and food security programs.
This lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements, whether in farmers’ fields, scientific laboratories, international markets, or elsewhere.

Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Melanie Wilkinson and Hendrik Poorter
2022-02-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
