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SUMMARY:ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Event information\nHear from invited speakers and Centre members on their research and discuss opportunities for collaboration. Topics will include genomic prediction for varied environments\, phylogenetic comparative analysis\, advanced water status measurements for field and lab\, and how the Nagoya protocol affects plant research in Australia. \nThis free event will be held in person at The University of Queensland St Lucia\, and online via Zoom.  \nRecordings from this event are available on YouTube >\nFeatured speakers\n\nDr Greg Rebetzke\nCSIRO\nGreg is a Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO Agriculture and Food\, where he contributes to the understanding of genetic and physiological factors affecting water productivity and adapting to changing climates in rainfed winter cereals. His goal is then to deliver elite trait-containing germplasm\, and improved phenotyping and genetic methods for trait enrichment in commercial breeding programs. \n  \nProfessor Jacqueline Batley\nUniversity of Western Australia\nJacqui has expertise in the fields of plant molecular biology\, genetics and genomics\, gained from working in both industry and academia. Her research applies breakthrough biotechnological advances for canola crop improvement\, through identification of genomic regions controlling traits\, which are being translated to commercial outcomes. Her work had led to new canola cultivars\, with enhanced productivity\, profit\, and yield stability through identification of genes linked to shatter tolerance\, blackleg disease resistance and oil quality. She is currently focussing on blackleg resistance in the Brassicaceae and investigating evolution of resistance genes across the plant kingdom.  \nProfessor Charlie Messina\nUniversity of Florida\nCarlos (Charlie) Messina is a professor of predictive breeding in the Department of Horticultural Sciences. Charlie works with breeders to improve the nutritional value of Florida produce and to reimagine agriculture as a solution to climate change. He also specializes in developing AI for plant breeding\, which he believes will enable society to harmonize crop improvement efforts for regenerative agricultural systems that improve human health\, nutrient security and adaptation to climate change. \n\n  \nProfessor Christine Beveridge\nThe University of Queensland\nThe focus of Christine’s research has been the role of plant hormones in regulating and coordinating plant development\, particularly shoot architecture. She discovered the plant hormone strigolactone and that sugar signalling is a driver of shoot branching. More recently her focus has shifted to identifying how different genetic and physiological networks work together to control plant productivity. Christine is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture. \n\n  \nProfessor Brendan Choat\nWestern Sydney University\nBrendan’s research centres on the physiological ecology of plants with a primary focus on plant hydraulics\, water relations and functional anatomy. He has held positions at Harvard University in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology\, the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California\, Davis\, and Australian National University before moving to the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. He is editor in chief for the PrometheusWiki Project and on the editorial board of the journal Plant Biology. In 2010 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. In 2013\, Prof Choat was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship for his work on mapping drought responses in trees. \n  \n  \nThe presentations and discussions during the symposium will be recorded (whenever permission is granted) and made available online\, to improve accessibility for all participants. If you have any questions about the format of the meeting or your potential for involvement\, please contact admin@plantsuccess.org.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/arc-centre-of-excellence-for-plant-success-symposium/
LOCATION:The University of Queensland\, The University of Queensland\, St Lucia\, QLD\, 4072\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240606T100000
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Shunichiro Tomura and Taylor Wass
DESCRIPTION:Shunichiro Tomura\nEnsemble approach for genomic prediction in crop breeding\nThe application of genomic prediction has increased genetic gain in crop breeding. However\, further acceleration across varying environments is required to meet the increasing yield demand. One bottleneck has been a low selection accuracy in genomic prediction models. A variety of models have been developed and evaluated\, revealing that their prediction performance remains low and none of them have consistently outperformed others. Other approaches need to be proposed to mitigate such issues\, and our research investigates the power of ensembles of multiple prediction models. Conceptually\, by combining information for prediction captured by each model\, more comprehensive information can be formed as “a collection of wisdoms”\, expected to raise prediction performance. We naïvely averaged prediction results from each model\, and despite the simplicity\, the ensemble approach outperformed other models demonstrating that there is a potential that ensemble modelling approaches can enhance prediction accuracy in crop breeding. \nTaylor Wass\nA Computational modelling approach to understand shoot architecture\nWhile network structures underpinning determinants of plant architecture have been comprehensively elucidated in the literature\, information is lacking regarding how the interplay of these networks and their components translates into the expression of the plant in 3D space. Traditional models of plant architecture fail to consider the physiological context of a given organ when applying growth rules\, and as such are unable to portray phenotypic plasticity. \nUsing an integrative approach featuring our in-house network simulation package PSoup\, in concert with functional-structural plant modelling\, we aim to develop a platform capable of dynamically representing the state of determinants of plant architecture\, such as hormone fluxes or carbon allocation\, and applying growth rules based on their values in 3D space. The emergent properties of these models can be used to inform crop models and guide the design of experiments to further understand the mechanisms governing shoot architecture traits\, such as branching and flowering. \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-shunichiro-tomura-and-taylor-wass/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Alex Wu
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 Alex Wu. \nCrop modelling for informing leaf photosynthesis and crop yield improvement\nAn increasing global food demand begs new strategy for crop yield improvement. Leaf CO2 assimilation is an important driver of crop growth and yield. However\, the translation of leaf photosynthetic manipulation to crop yield performance is less straightforward. Yield is a complex emergent property driven by instantaneous leaf CO2 assimilation\, summed over the whole canopy of the crop and across the entire crop life cycle\, all interacting with environmental effects on growth and development of the crop. Here\, I will present a ‘cross-scale’ crop modelling effort used to develop integrative leaf-to-field modelling tools\, offering new predictive capabilities to aid photosynthesis and yield improvement. This: (i) enables in silico field testing of putative strategies for leaf photosynthetic manipulation in target population of environments; (ii) offers a platform for the dissection of crop growth components and identification of key photosynthetic properties for growth enhancement. The two-pronged\, but complementary pathways are generating new information on the value proposition of photosynthetic manipulation and informing fundamental and applied research directions\, helping to discover and support new strategies for crop yield improvement. Potential synergies with other crop research technologies are discussed. \n \nDr Alex Wu\nAlex Wu is a crop modeller. He completed a postdoc in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis and an ARC DECRA. He is known for his research on modelling leaf photosynthetic CO2 assimilation and field crop yield performance for supporting yield improvement. He has developed in-depth understanding\, using cross-scale crop modelling\, of two-way interactions between leaf biochemical\, canopy structure\, and whole crop growth and yield. Alex has generated a priori yield impact assessment of photosynthesis bioengineering of crops\, aiding fundamental research for enhancing yield improvement outcomes. He was awarded the Australian Society of Plant Scientist Peter Goldacre Medal in 2020.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-alex-wu/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240411T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240411T110000
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Alicia Hellens
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Hellens\nPart 1- The transcription factor bZIP11 acts antagonistically with trehalose 6-phosphate to inhibit shoot branching\nThe ontogenetic regulation of shoot branching allows plants to adjust their architecture in accordance with the environment. This process is due to the regulation of axillary bud outgrowth into branches\, which can be induced by increasing sugar availability to the buds through decapitation of the shoot tip. Different sugar signalling components have been identified in the induction of shoot branching. However\, the molecular components that maintain bud dormancy in response to sugar starvation remain largely unknown. In this part of the talk I will present findings from one chapter of my PhD\, which identified a new model of interactions between sugar signalling molecules\, Tre6P\, bZIP11\, and SNRK1 in the inhibition of axillary shoot branching. \nPart 2 – Life beyond a PhD: my first year as a kiwifruit rootstock breeder\nKiwifruit is New Zealand’s largest commercial fruit crop bringing over $8 billion annually via cultivars grown for Zespri. The Kiwifruit Breeding Centre is a joint venture between Zespri and the New Zealand crown research company Plant and Food Research\, to provide more kiwifruit better and faster for Zespri. Kiwifruit cultivars that produce desirable fruit do not necessarily have good root systems or resistance to disease. For this reason\, commercial kiwifruit plants are not grown from seed but are the result of grafting onto a rootstock. A rootstock can also impact characteristics onto the scion such as low vigour in vegetative growth. In New Zealand there are two commercial rootstock varieties both of which have drawbacks. With a rapidly changing climate it is more vital than ever that rootstocks are bred for current and future environments both in New Zealand but also around the world. Therefore\, the rootstock breeding program is focusing on developing new\, environmental specific rootstocks targeting desirable\, sustainable\, traits. In this part of the talk I will give an overview of the kiwifruit breeding pipeline and discuss rootstock-specific traits of interest in our programme. \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-alicia-hellens/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240410T090000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous and Heirloom Seeds: Stewardship\, Sovereignty and Legal Protection
DESCRIPTION:Event information\nIntellectual property has been protecting plants and seed in the United States since the 1930s. Over the last century\, the reach of intellectual property over seeds and plants has consistently expanded. At the same time\, there have been a number of international initiatives that have attempted to regulate how plants and seeds are used and exchanged. The result is a complex and changing legal landscape that impacts the way seeds and plants are used as well as who gets to control and benefit from that use. This workshop will look at techniques used to ensure Indigenous intellectual property\, traditional ecological knowledge and traditional crop varieties are protected. We will hear about the key features of intellectual property law and other plant protection and methods that exist in seed stewardship. \nRegister to attend >\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\nAlexandra Zamecnik\, Executive Director\, Native Seeds/SEARCH\nCollaboration\, representation and transparency in heirloom seed stewardship: Examples from Native Seeds/SEARCH\nAlexandra Zamecnik is the Executive Director of NS/S. She has a Masters in International Relations and has extensive experience working in conservation and natural resources management in Mexico and Central America. She is focused on strengthening NS/S’s policies and practices around seed stewardship and seed sharing. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nDr. Andrea Carter\, Director of Agriculture & Education\, Native Seeds/SEARCH\nChallenges and Opportunities in Southwest Seed Stewardship\nDr. Andrea Carter is the Agriculture\, Education & Outreach Director. She serves as a link between the NS/S seed bank and small-scale farmers across the Southwest. She received her PhD in Plant Science from the University of Arizona and focused her research on drought-adapted crops. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nBobby Stone\, Board Member\, Native Seeds/SEARCH\nA life of Farming and Seed Saving in Gila River\nRobert Stone is the former Lt. Governor for Gila River Indian Community. He is the vice chair of the NS/S Board of Directors. He is recognized as a spiritual leader\, traditional singer\, traditional farmer\, artist\, and indigenous seed and food advocate. Bobby attended Central Arizona College where he earned a degree in Agriculture Technology\, and then continued at University of Arizona. Bobby has been a life-long farmer and he maintains a seed bank with an array of indigenous crops. \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\nDr. Brad Sherman\, School of Law\, University of Queensland\nAn Overview of Intellectual property protection for seed\nBrad Sherman is UQ Laureate Professor and a member of the ARC Centre for Plant Success at the University of Queensland\, Australia where he researches on intellectual property. He is currently working on a history of intellectual property in the citrus industry in California and Arizona. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nDr. Allison Fish\, School of Law\, University of Queensland\nUsing public databases to prevent biopiracy of seed\nAllison Fish is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland in Brisbane\, Australia. Allison’s research focuses on the use of law and technology to manage of intangible cultural heritage in India and Australia.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/indigenous-and-heirloom-seeds-stewardship-sovereignty-and-legal-protection/
LOCATION:City High  37 E Pennington St\, Tucson\, AZ 85701\, City High 37 E Pennington St\,\, Tucson\, AZ 85701\, AZ\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240222T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240222T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Tara Kemp
DESCRIPTION:Tara Kemp\nRealizing partitions as latin squares and cubes\nA latin square of order n is a square array in which each of n symbols occurs exactly once in every row and column\, similar to a Sudoku puzzle. L. Fuchs posed a question about the existence of quasigroups with disjoint subquasigroups and this problem is equivalent to the existence of latin squares with disjoint subsquares. The existence of these latin squares is a partially solved problem and it can be extended to a problem on latin cubes with disjoint subcubes. In this talk\, I will discuss the results that I have found for both latin squares and latin cubes. \n  \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-tara-kemp/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231116T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231116T110000
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CREATED:20221219T183912Z
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Maddie James
DESCRIPTION:Maddie James\nThe role of chromosomal inversions during adaptation\nTo understand adaptation at the genetic level\, researchers typically focus on variation in single nucleotide polymorphisms or gene expression. However\, other aspects of the genome also impact how species evolve. Chromosomal inversions\, segments of the DNA that are flipped in orientation\, can arise within a genome and are known to play a major role during adaptation. For instance\, chromosomal rearrangements can link together sets of advantageous alleles\, which can facilitate adaptation in certain situations such as in the presence of gene flow. In this talk I will overview what chromosomal inversions are\, methods to quantify them\, their role during adaptation\, how they can impact crop breeding programs\, and some empirical evidence of their contribution to the divergent adaptation of Senecio ecotypes. \n  \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-maddie-james/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231106T083000
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SUMMARY:Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium II
DESCRIPTION:Event information\nIn collaboration with The University of Florida the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success is coordinating a hybrid (in-person and online) symposium on November 6 and 7 in Gainesville\, USA. The symposium will focus on a range of topics related to the study of Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) interactions and their importance for crop improvement. \nThe symposium will be conducted to stimulate new approaches\, building on a foundation of sharing understanding and insights from case studies\, leading to discussion of ideas that will advance experimental\, modelling and prediction methods to enhance crop improvement strategies. \nIn-person attendance is limited and will be assigned on a ‘first come\, first serve’ basis\, so we encourage you to finalise your attendance plans as soon as possible. The presentations and discussions during the symposium will be recorded (whenever permission is granted) and made available online\, to improve accessibility for all participants. If you have any questions about the format of the meeting or your potential for involvement\, please contact admin@plantsuccess.org. \nView the program >\nRegister to attend >\nFeatured speakers\n\nDr Greg Rebetzke\nCSIRO\nDr Greg Rebetzke\, Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO Agriculture and Food\, contributes to the understanding of genetic and physiological factors affecting water productivity and adapting to changing climates in rainfed winter cereals. His goal is then to deliver elite trait-containing germplasm\, and improved phenotyping and genetic methods for trait enrichment in commercial breeding programs. \n  \nProfessor Christine Beveridge\nThe University of Queensland\nThe focus of Christine’s research has been the role of plant hormones in regulating and coordinating plant development\, particularly shoot architecture. She discovered the plant hormone strigolactone and that sugar signalling is a driver of shoot branching. More recently her focus has shifted to identifying how different genetic and physiological networks work together to control plant productivity. Christine is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture. \n  \n\nProfessor Graeme Hammer\nThe University of Queensland/Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)\nGraeme conducts research on the physiology and genetics of complex adaptive traits in field crops with a focus on water productivity in cereals. His research underpins the development of mathematical models of crop growth\, development and yield that enable simulation of consequences of genetic and management manipulation of crops in specific target environments.  \n\n  \n  \nDr Daniela Bustos-Korts\nUniversidad Austral de Chile\nDaniela’s main interest is genotype to phenotype modelling to characterize and predict crop adaptation across multiple environments. These modelling approaches integrate physiology\, crop modelling and statistics. She works at Universidad Austral de Chile\, leading projects about wheat adaptation to dry environments. She also teaches bachelor and postgraduate courses focusing on models to support breeding and agronomic management decisions. \n\n\n  \n\nDr Jose Crossa\nCIMMYT\nJose Crossa works at the Biometrics and Statistics Unit conducting research on genomic models and models for genomic x environment interaction to help CIMMYT researchers achieve their goals. He also teaches courses on statistical genetics. \n  \n\n  \n\nGxExM Background\nThe potential importance of GxExM interactions has been considered for many performance properties of agricultural systems. There are complex and growing pressures acting upon the global crop systems on which we depend for our livelihoods. \nUniversally\, significant yield gaps have been identified between potential and realised on-farm crop productivity for most crop systems. Further\, the sustainability of the current and required levels of crop productivity to meet the expectations of future needs are continually questioned. \nThe challenges are diverse\, complex and multi-faceted. Crop breeders seek to utilise available genetic resources to develop improved cultivars. \nCrop agronomists seek to define agronomic management practices that will work for the improved cultivars. \nFarmers seek to combine the improved cultivars with appropriate agronomic practices to achieve a target on-farm productivity while balancing short and long-term risks and rewards. \nThere have been and continue to be many calls for integrated efforts. \nThere are successful examples of integrated efforts between breeders\, agronomists in partnership with farmers. A number of such efforts have emphasised the importance of considering the potential influences of GxExM interactions at multiple levels within the crop systems. \nView the event flyer >
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/genotype-by-environment-by-management-gxexm-symposium-ii/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231005T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231005T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T183830Z
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Hannah Drieberg and Sivakumar Sukumaran
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-presenter-s-tbc-5/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230905T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230905T160000
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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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-john-passioura/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230827T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230827T170000
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SUMMARY:National Science Quiz 2023
DESCRIPTION:The ARC CoE for Plant Success is proud to be the convenor of the 2023 National Science Quiz! \nHosted by Charlie Pickering from ABC-TV’s The Weekly and joined by some of Australia’s top scientists with our special guest team captains\, each team will battle it out for the honour of being this year’s National Science Quiz champions. \nJoin in person at The Capitol in Melbourne or watch live online via YouTube. Find out more here: www.nationalsciencequiz.com.au
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/national-science-quiz-2023/
LOCATION:QLD
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230815T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230815T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20230709T151136Z
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UID:3555-1692118800-1692127800@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Shirty Science 'The Most Excellent Science Shirt' Competition
DESCRIPTION:The ARC CoE for Plant Success is proud to be part of the Shirty Science Most Excellent Science Shirt competition! \nTen brilliant minds have collided to create the ultimate fusion of science\, creativity\, and shirts. \nIn this captivating YouTube Live event\, scientists\, and artists from around the country will step onto the virtual stage to pitch their innovative science shirt designs. \nFrom the comfort of your own home\, join our host Nate Byrne\, ABC Breakfast Weather Presenter\, and a panel of esteemed scientific and creative judges. As each new shirt design is revealed and pitched\, you will cast your votes. Through the power of mathematics\, your votes will help determine The Most Excellent Science Shirt. \nJoin us for the online launch of the designs this National Science Week! Have your voice heard as we select the most EXCELLENT science shirt. Find out more here.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/shirty-science-the-most-excellent-science-shirt-competition/
LOCATION:QLD
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230810T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230810T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20230725T182049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230809T170422Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Michele Holbrook
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 Professor N. Michele Holbrook. \nHydromechanical forces in transpiring leaves: how the reversible collapse of minor vein xylem conduits protects against cavitation\nVascular plants transport water in a metastable state putting their lifeline to the soil at risk of embolism formation. Stomata are essential for protecting xylem from developing potentially damaging tensions\, yet angiosperm stomata are mechanically and physiologically constrained in their ability to respond to rapid increases in transpiration rate. Here I discuss how the reversible collapse of xylem conduits in the highest vein orders protects xylem conduits during environmentally-driven fluctuations in transpiration rate. The goal of my talk is to illuminate what happens inside a transpiring leaf and to connect this massive movement of water and energy to the functioning of plants at larger scales. \n \nProfessor N. Michele Holbrook\nProfessor Michele Holbrook studies the physics and physiology of vascular transport in plants with the goal of understanding how constraints on the movement of water and solutes between soil and leaves influences ecological and evolutionary processes. Dr. Holbrook is currently working on questions relating to cavitation\, stomatal mechanics\, leaf hydraulic design\, and xylem evolution.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-michele-holbrook/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230727T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230727T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T183747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230717T195259Z
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Francois Barbier and Peter Crisp
DESCRIPTION:Francois Barbier\nA sugar signalling network controls shoot branching plasticity\nShoot branching is an extremely plastic developmental process that enables plants to adjust their architecture to their environment. The control of this process is due to a complex regulatory network involving hormones\, nutrients and metabolites. Sugar allocation to axillary buds is an important factor that determines the transition from dormancy to bud outgrowth\, thereby promoting shoot branching. In this process\, sugars are more than a source of carbon and energy\, and play signalling roles. We have identified different molecular components and signalling pathways through which sugars control shoot branching. It includes\, for example\, the enzyme HEXOKINASE1\, the sugar signal Trehalose 6-Phosphate or the transcription factor bZIP11. Some of these components interact with hormonal pathways involved in the control of shoot branching\, such as strigolactones. These interactions constitute a network that allows plants to fine-tune their architecture in response to environmental changes leading to fluctuations of endogenous sugar levels. \nPeter Crisp\nBeyond the gene: decoding crop epigenomes\nThe genomic sequences of crops continue to be produced at a frenetic pace\, with the potential to significantly contribute to breeding activities and crop improvement. However\, beyond the A\, T\, C and G in DNA\, the epigenome also has the potential to offer new avenues for breeding and improvement. Here we present opportunities to use epigenomic technologies in crop research. DNA methylation is a DNA modification\, and variation in DNA methylation can be associated with phenotypic variation. These variants\, or ‘epialleles’\, could provide markers for selection and can provide information not captured by conventional genetic markers such as SNPs. In addition\, despite the advances in genome sequencing and assembly\, detailed annotation of plant genomes is now a bottleneck in genomic analysis and an impediment to realizing the full potential of association studies or genome editing for crop improvement. Here\, we describe our recently developed approach that uses DNA methylation profiling of a single tissue (e.g. a leaf) to distill a genome down to the relatively small fraction of regions that are functionally valuable for trait variation throughout development. We are using this approach in sorghum\, wheat\, barley\, maize and grapevine to better understand these genomes and identify new opportunities for crop research and improvement. \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-francois-barbier-and-peter-crisp/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230624
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221211T142012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T204358Z
UID:2937-1687305600-1687564799@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Plant Success Research Retreat 2023
DESCRIPTION:The third annual Plant Success Research Retreat will take place over three days from 21-23 June 2023 in Cairns\, Queensland. The retreat is open to all Centre Members to attend in person but virtual attendance will also be available.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plant-success-research-retreat-2023/
LOCATION:QLD
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230619
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230621
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20230227T135606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T204321Z
UID:3157-1687132800-1687305599@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Plant Success Early Career Researcher Development Workshop 2023
DESCRIPTION:The Centre is hosting an Early Career Researcher Development Workshop on 19 and 20 June 2023 in Cairns\, Queensland.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plant-success-early-career-researcher-development-workshop-2023/
LOCATION:QLD
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230608T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230608T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T183702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T204247Z
UID:2996-1686218400-1686222000@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Christopher Blackman and Kate Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Blackman\nPlant drought experiments: why\, what\, when\, where and how?\nDrought is a major environmental stress that negatively impacts plant growth and productivity in natural and agricultural systems. Given drought is increasing in intensity with human-induced global heating\, there is an urgent need to better understand how plants respond to water-deficit and identify the traits and mechanisms associated with drought adaptation and survival in drought prone environments. \nOne way to address this need is to run a drought experiment. But How? In this talk\, I describe some of the different field-based and experimental approaches researchers (myself included) use to study plant adaptation and plant responses to drought. These include examining trait variation along environmental gradients of moisture availability\, long-term field monitoring\, reciprocal transplant experiments and field trials\, rain-exclusion\, and glasshouse experiments. I highlight some of the benefits and challenges of these different approaches and emphasise the need to understand plant physiological processes when running drought related phenotype selection and genetic studies. \nKate Johnson\nA trade-off between growth rate and xylem cavitation resistance in Callitris rhomboidea\nThe ideal plant water transport system is one that both is efficient\, and resistant to drought-induced damage (xylem cavitation)\, however\, species rarely possess both. This may be explained by trade-offs between traits\, yet thus far\, no proposed trade-off has offered a universal explanation for the lack of both highly drought-resistant and highly efficient water transport systems. In our recent paper\, we found evidence for a new trade-off\, between growth rate and resistance to xylem cavitation\, in the canopies of a drought-resistant tree species (Callitris rhomboidea)\, presenting an alternative the ‘safety vs. efficiency’ hypothesis. I will discuss what we found\, what it means and some possible mechanistic explanations for the trade-off. Understanding whether this trade-off exists within and between species will help us to uncover what drives and limits plant drought resistance more broadly. \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-chris-blackman-kate-johnson/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230607T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230607T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T182858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230607T182317Z
UID:2989-1686153600-1686157200@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:The Beyond Intellectual Property Moment in Historical Context
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Graham Dutfield from the University of Leeds. \nIn 1996\, a book called “Beyond Intellectual Property” was published by International Development Research Centre. A law book written by two people entirely unschooled in law\, of whom one is the present speaker\, this was hardly a world-changing event. The book was very much of its time\, being published soon after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro\, which itself came five centuries to the year after a rather more noteworthy event. That said\, talking about the book\, not so much what it contains\, but about why it was written at all and during the decade it was\, can reveal much about a specific moment in time that the book\, at least in part\, captures. Ten years earlier\, this book would never have been written; ten years later it is unlikely it would have been needed. That this book is so much of its time testifies perhaps to a certain uniqueness of the era in which it was produced. As we will see\, intellectually\, legally\, and politically shifts were taking place and interacting with each other in some quite remarkable ways. Certain individuals played a big part in this\, and nobody did more than the book’s main author Darrell Posey. For Darrell\, the book was a logical and hugely compelling extension both of his scientific work on the ethno-ecological practices of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon\, and of his environmental activism. In the end\, there was no revolution as such; a five hundred-year legacy is not so easy to counteract. But change did take place and it’s possible the era the book represents did lead to improvements in the status of Indigenous peoples. \n \nBiography\nGraham Dutfield is Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds. As such he has a keen interest\, going back several decades\, in governance of technology\, knowledge and property in the context of such major global challenges as public health\, food security\, biodiversity conservation\, ecosystems management\, and climate change. \nHis research on intellectual property crosses several disciplines\, including law\, history\, politics\, economics and anthropology. More general scholarly interests include the law\, science and business of creativity and technical innovation from the enlightenment to the present\, especially in the life sciences. \nAmong his most recent publications are a second edition of Dutfield and Suthersanen on Global Intellectual Property Law\, and a history of the pharmaceutical industry called That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry\, 1880-2020. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday 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. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/the-beyond-intellectual-property-moment-in-historical-context/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230502T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230502T100000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T182643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230514T180109Z
UID:2986-1683018000-1683021600@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Seeds as deep time technologies
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Courtney Fullilove from Wesleyan University. \nThis talk aims to unite diverse insights in the humanities\, social sciences\, and natural sciences by theorizing seeds as deep time technologies.  Regarding the seed as a technology allows us to understand actors and processes of improvement that constitute the material form of the seed and its demarcation according to commercial and scientific logics\, including but not limited to recent species of intellectual property rights and genetic modification.  Through a discussion of natural science\, deconstruction of naturalized categories of production and innovation\, and critical genealogy of narratives of domestication and civilization\, the cultural and temporal depth of seeds comes into focus\, casting cultivation as a collaborative project with a 10\,000-year history. \n \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday 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. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/people-plants-and-the-law-presentation-by-courtney-fullilove/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230413T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230413T120000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20230321T203124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T182810Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Rana Munns
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 Professor Rana Munns. \nPlant capacities to adapt to abiotic stresses\nClimate change and the challenge of feeding an increasing world population pose two existential threats. Climate change causes increased global temperatures that reduce crop yield\, and the increasing world population demands higher productivity of crops and pastures on decreasing areas of traditional agricultural land. To understand the responses in common to the various abiotic stresses\, we distinguish seven capacities that plants possess for adapting to abiotic stresses that result in continued growth and a productive yield. These include the capacities to take up essential resources\, supply them to different plant parts\, generate the energy required to maintain cellular functions\, communicate between plant parts\, and manage structural assets in the face of changed circumstances. We show how these capacities are crucial for reproductive success of major crops during drought\, salinity\, temperature extremes\, flooding\, and nutrient stress. This helps us to focus on the strategies that enhance plant adaptation to all stresses and identify key responses that can be targets for plant breeding. \n \nProfessor Rana Munns\nRana Munns is recognised internationally for her research in the fundamental principles of crop adaptation to salinity\, and for applications of these insights. She defined the critical plant processes for tolerance to soil salinity\, and showed which distinguishes salinity stress from drought stress. She discovered genes for sodium exclusion and led a research team on the genetic basis of salt tolerance in durum wheat\, which produced breeding lines yielding 25% more grain on saline soils in farmers’ fields. \nShe has retired from CSIRO Agriculture and Food\, and lives at Lennox Head NSW. She is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science\, and The World Academy of Sciences.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-rana-munns/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230406T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230406T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T183543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230316T135628Z
UID:2993-1680775200-1680778800@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Cade Kane
DESCRIPTION:Cade Kane\nAbscisic acid can augment\, but is not essential for autumnal leaf senescence\nSenescence vividly marks the onset of the final stages of the life of a leaf\, yet the triggers and drivers of this process are still not fully understood. The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is an important regulator of leaf senescence in model herbs\, but the function of this hormone has not been widely tested in deciduous trees. Here we investigate the importance of ABA as a driver of leaf senescence in winter deciduous trees.  In four diverse species we tracked leaf gas exchange\, water potential\, chlorophyll content\, and foliage ABA levels from the end of summer until leaves were abscised or died. We found that no change in ABA levels occurred at the onset of chlorophyll decline or throughout the duration of leaf senescence. To test whether ABA could enhance leaf senescence we girdled the branches to disrupt ABA export in the phloem.  Girdling increased foliage ABA levels in two of the species\, and this increase triggered an accelerated rate of chlorophyll decline in these species. We conclude that an increase in ABA level may augment leaf senescence in winter deciduous species but that it is not essential for this annual process. \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-cade-kane/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230404T143000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230404T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T182244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T151226Z
UID:2983-1680618600-1680622200@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Reconsidering Japan's Plant Patent Movement: National Histories\, Colonial Legacies\, and Transpacific Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kjell Ericson from Kyoto University. \nA movement calling for plants to be treated as patentable inventions emerged in 1970s Japan. Among the loudest proponents of reform were people who had long engaged in the breeding and propagation of fruits and flowers\, in certain cases far beyond Japan’s post-1945 borders. My presentation contextualizes the activities of the plant patent movement these breeders and propagators joined. \nAlthough United States plant patent precedents loomed large in Japanese debates\, the issue was not simply one of borrowing existing legal frameworks. Rather\, ideas of plant patenting were enmeshed in complex histories of migration\, settler colonialism\, and agricultural improvement. The implementation of a non-patent based Japanese plant variety protection system split opinion within the plant patent movement and contributed to its breakup by the early 1980s. Even so\, several of the movement’s former members later became involved in a widely publicized dispute over the patentability of a fruit tree: a peach variety with roots in colonial-era Korea. In tracing Japan’s plant patent movement alongside plants and people in motion\, this presentation reconsiders issues of ownership and state power beyond nationally framed histories of plant variety protection alone. \nBiography\nKjell Ericson is a Program-Specific Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University’s Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research and teaches history in the Kyoto-Heidelberg Joint Degree in Transcultural Studies (JDTS) Program. His research interests are in histories of environment\, technology\, and law\, in and around the Japanese archipelago. An in-progress monograph project examines Japan’s southern Mie Prefecture\, a region that was once the global center of saltwater pearl cultivation. His publications include contributions to multiple edited volumes and research articles in Technology and Culture\, Zinbun\, and the Journal of the History of Biology. \n \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday 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. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plants-as-property-in-twentieth-century-japan-national-histories-colonial-legacies-and-transpacific-dynamics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230223T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230223T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221219T183328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T144520Z
UID:2991-1677146400-1677150000@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Vanessa Tonet and Tom Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Tonet\nWhat kills leaves: mechanisms and recovery\nThe last decades of climate warming are rapidly shaping our forests by causing canopy damage and tree mortality. However\, the cause of leaf death in trees is unresolved and not explicitly linked to any physiological mechanism. \nTackling this question\, we investigated the role of xylem failure in leaf death by comparing the timing of damage to the photosynthetic machinery with changes in plant hydration and cavitation during imposed water stress in a common Australian evergreen tree (Eucalyptus viminalis ). We found that the spread of cavitation into the distal part of the leaf vein system is the tipping agent determining tissue damage and leaf death. \nAt the same time\, we also exposed saplings of the same species to cycles of drought and rewatering\, seeking a link between the spread of xylem cavitation within the canopy and the degree of recovery post-drought. Leaves experiencing cavitation quickly desiccated and die but this did not translate to a rapid threshold in overall canopy damage. Rather\, whole canopies showed a gradual decline in mean post-drought assimilation rates due to a significant variation in vulnerability of leaves. \nTom Fisher\nRiccia\, small plants\, big genus\nIn the Bowman lab we’re known for our research on the liverwort\, Marchantia polymorpha\, and in collaboration with many others we’ve been somewhat successful in promoting Marchantia polymorpha as a useful genetic model. However\, while Marchantia polymorpha is a good representative for liverworts\, there is a broader diversity of liverworts out there in the world and a genus that beautifully demonstrates this diversity is Riccia. Riccia are tiny liverworts forming a genus with hundreds of species\, many of which occur naturally within Australia\, and thus we have been able to collect dozens of Riccia sp. and are currently cultivating them in our lab with the aim of systematically sequencing their genomes/transcriptomes. We believe that these data could have many potential applications in comparative and evolutionary genomics\, such as sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to both aquatic and arid habitats. Although input from other Centre members would be much appreciated! \nThis 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-vanessa-tonet-tom-fisher/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221129T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221129T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221121T130150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T180946Z
UID:2891-1669737600-1669741200@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Biocultural Rights\, Indigenous Peoples\, and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will investigate the role of biocultural community protocols in safeguarding the biocultural rights of Indigenous and local communities. In so doing\, the lecture will analyse the nature and role of biocultural community protocols within the context of access to genetic resources and benefit sharing\, linking this to the rise of biocultural jurisprudence and the interlinkages between cultural diversity and biological diversity conservation. The lecture will also provide critical insights about biocultural community protocols\, raising questions including whether these protocols can be seen as political tools and representational strategies used by Indigenous peoples in their struggle for greater rights to their land\, territories and resources\, and for more political space. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday 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. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/biocultural-rights-indigenous-peoples-and-local-communities-protecting-culture-and-the-environment-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221117T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221117T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20221026T172004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T172004Z
UID:2821-1668679200-1668682800@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Genevieve Durrington and Gabrielle Hartill
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-genevieve-durrington-and-gabrielle-hartill-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221103T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221104T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20220718T145345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T132458Z
UID:2421-1667466000-1667581200@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium
DESCRIPTION:In association with the TropAg2022 meeting (https://tropagconference.org/) the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success will host a hybrid (in person and online) workshop on November 3 and 4 in Brisbane\, Australia. The workshop will focus on a range of topics related to the study of Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) interactions and their importance for crop improvement. \nThe workshop will be conducted to stimulate new approaches\, building on a foundation of sharing understanding and insights from case studies\, leading to discussion of ideas that will advance experimental\, modelling and prediction methods to enhance crop improvement strategies. The workshop agenda is currently under construction and will be shared soon. \nIn-person registrations have now been exhausted. To attend online\, please register here. \nMore information in the event flyer >\nView the program >
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/genotype-by-environment-by-management-gxexm-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221018T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20221018T100000
DTSTAMP:20260501T014022
CREATED:20220210T163951Z
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SUMMARY:Novelties\, Frauds\, and Protections: The Fruit Business in Nineteenth-Century America
DESCRIPTION:In the United States through the 1830s\, commercial fruit nurseries were few in number\, served largely local markets\, and\, facing little competition\, did little in their catalogues to differentiate and brand their products. Beginning in the 1820s\, the transportation revolution\, the migrations westward\, and the creation of relentlessly expanding markets steadily enlarged competition and put a premium on the innovation of novel fruits. Plants were not patentable at the time. Plant nurseries\, hitherto members of close-knit local communities\, had tended to rely on mutual trust to prevent the appropriation of their innovations. However\, operating in increasingly impersonal regional and national markets they sought to protect their investments in the creation or acquisition of novelties by branding their products. Still\, cheats could offer fraudulent or adulterated fruit trees or vines under the branded name\, and purchasers would be none the wiser because it was virtually impossible to tell simply by inspection what plant or plant quality young trees or vines would eventually produce. \nFrom the 1830s through the rest of the century\, purveyors of innovations developed a variety of strategies to protect their brands. The strategies were well exemplified by several prominent nurseries\, notably Ellwanger and Barry’s\, in Rochester\, New York; Charles Hovey’s\, in Cambridge\, Massachusetts; and Luther Burbank’s\, in Santa Rosa\, California. They emphasized in their catalogues the importance of purchasing only from reliable sources\, included testimonials from happy customers\, and provided lithographs – first black and white\, then in color – of their branded fruits. Still\, thieves of new fruit trees and vines could simply clone them and sell them under another brand name. In the face of that biological loophole\, their originators charged exceptionally high prices for first sales\, hoping therein to recoup the downstream revenues they would lose to appropriation. They also employed traveling salesmen to sell their trees and vines\, instructed them to gain trust by behaving in a moral\, upright manner\, and equipped them with sample books that presented in full color the fruits purchasers would get if they bought and planted the nursery’s trees and vines. By the late nineteenth century\, finding these protective strategies increasing inadequate\, nurserymen began agitating for national legal protection of their branded novelties through trademarks and patents. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday 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. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/novelties-frauds-and-protections-the-fruit-business-in-nineteenth-century-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Nick O'Brien and Caitlin Dudley
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/centre-for-plant-success-webinar-series-nick-obrien-and-caitlin-dudley/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220908T090000
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: David Kainer
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 David Kainer. \nDigging deeper into the GWAS signal with a little machine learning along the way\nGenome Wide Association Studies\, or GWAS\, have become a standard tool for the discovery of the genetic basis of complex traits. For over a decade\, results from GWAS have been used to guide experimentation\, marker assisted selection and genetic engineering efforts. But for complex traits where we don’t have huge sample numbers (as with most plant studies!)\, GWAS outcomes can be very limited by multiple testing correction. Only loci that make it below the magic p-value threshold are deemed interesting. These loci often explain only a small fraction of the trait’s heritability\, yet we know intuitively that many causal loci sit just ‘out of reach’. Here I will relate our efforts to relax those thresholds with the goal of reliably obtaining more of the trait genetic architecture. To deal with the peril of increasing false positives\, multi-omic data sources such as gene expression and metabolic pathways can be fused into multiplex networks upon which network propagation algorithms tease apart the false positives from the true positives. I will demonstrate the process with examples in Arabidopsis and other species. \nAbout the speaker: David is currently a Staff Scientist in the Computational Predictive Biology group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory\, Tennessee USA. He specializes in analysing the genomic basis of complex traits to guide crop improvement through breeding and engineering. David received his PhD from the Australian National University’s Research School of Biology in 2017 after an earlier career in computer engineering and mobile game development. David focuses on biological network analysis\, where multiple forms of ‘omic data are rendered as network layers and the combined (or Multiplexed) network is jointly traversed by machine learning algorithms such as Random Walks. This provides a platform for knowledge synthesis and discovery from highly complex\, interconnected\, heterogeneous data — a 21st century solution for a 21st century challenge.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-david-kainer/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220823T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220823T180000
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SUMMARY:Artificial by Nature: Plastic Flowers as Intangible Properties
DESCRIPTION:In March 1961\, the refusal of entry of a ‘Sweetheart Roses’ consignment into the United States began a series of interesting controversies concerning the copyright in plastic roses\, geraniums\, lilacs\, and flower corsages. Although the history of these cases remains largely unexplored\, this paper shows how significant they were in addressing the unstable distinction between the natural and the artificial\, particularly when the subsistence of copyright was at stake. Artificial flowers simulated nature\, but they did so in ways that forced copyright to construct its subject matter differently. The irony implicit here resulted in the law looking at flower construction as an artifice but trying to legitimate it by grounding the question of originality in the way nature itself was approached. \nAbout People\, Plants and the Law Online Lecture Series\nThe People\, Plants\, and the Law lecture series explores the legal and lively entanglements of human and botanical worlds. \nToday 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. \nThis lecture series explores the special role of the law in shaping these different engagements\, whether in farmers’ fields\, scientific laboratories\, international markets\, or elsewhere.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/artificial-by-nature-plastic-flowers-as-intangible-properties/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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