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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/
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230413T110000
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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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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230404T143000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230404T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230223T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230223T110000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221117T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221117T110000
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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
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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:20260430T232137
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220915T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220915T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
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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
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220908T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220822T182843Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220811T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220811T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220330T193541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T200859Z
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SUMMARY:Official Launch of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the $35 million in funding from the Australian Research Council along with further support from partners\, the Centre for Plant Success is making discoveries about the adaptive strategies underpinning productivity and resilience in diverse plants. The Centre for Plant Success will deepen knowledge of the genetic and physiological networks driving key traits for safeguarding and sustaining world food supply and biodiversity. \nJoin us to celebrate our official launch which will be streamed live from Brisbane\, Queensland.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/official-launch-of-the-arc-centre-of-excellence-for-plant-success-in-nature-and-agriculture/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220807T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220807T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220718T145621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T201123Z
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SUMMARY:National Science Quiz 2022
DESCRIPTION:The ARC CoE for Plant Success is proud to sponsor the 2022 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 Edge in Melbourne or watch live online via YouTube.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/national-science-quiz-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220728T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220728T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220718T142429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T142429Z
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Henry Arenas Castro
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-henry-arenas-castro/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220604
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220224T144709Z
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SUMMARY:Plant Success ECR Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! More details to come.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plant-success-ecr-workshop/
LOCATION:The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel\, 1 Macquarie Street\, Hobart\, Tasmania\, 7000
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220601T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220601T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220330T194138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T173558Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Bruce Walsh
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. \nBruce Walsh is a population and quantitative geneticist with very diverse interests in plant and animal breeding\, evolutionary biology\, and statistical methods.  He obtained a BS in Mathematical Population Biology from UC Davis\, and a PhD in genetics from the University of Washington. He is currently a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, Plant Sciences\, and Public Health at the University of Arizona. He is perhaps best known for the two graduate textbooks on quantitative genetics that he coauthored with Mike Lynch (Lynch & Walsh\, 1998\, Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits [a new version\, along with Peter Visscher at UQ\, is in the works]; and Walsh & Lynch 2018\, Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits). He has taught almost 100 short courses on quantitative genetics in over two dozen countries\, on all continents (except for Antarctica\, where he is still awaiting an invitation). He is also an avid Lepidopterist\, having described almost 30 new species of moths and has three species named after him.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-bruce-walsh/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220602
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20211107T181720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T192759Z
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SUMMARY:Plant Success Research Retreat 2022
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRegistration details to come.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/plant-success-research-retreat-2022/
LOCATION:The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel\, 1 Macquarie Street\, Hobart\, Tasmania\, 7000
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220520T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220520T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220508T192914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220508T192914Z
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SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Travis Britton
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-travis-britton/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220517T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220517T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220210T163016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T180624Z
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SUMMARY:Supporting Indigenous Data: Introducing the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels
DESCRIPTION: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 . \nThe 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. \nThis 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. \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/introducing-the-traditional-knowledge-and-biocultural-labels/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220407T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220407T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220330T193317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T193317Z
UID:2159-1649325600-1649329200@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Kalpani Galaihalage and Samuel Barton
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-kalpani-galaihalage-and-samuel-barton/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220325T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220325T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220205T005223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T173438Z
UID:1939-1648202400-1648206000@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Talking Plant Science: Charlie Messina
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCharlie 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.
URL:https://www.plantsuccess.org/event/talking-plant-science-charlie-messina/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Talking Plant Science
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220222T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220222T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220210T162536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T150639Z
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SUMMARY:Stand and Deliver: Biopiracy\, Law\, and the Balkanization of the Genescape
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAs 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! \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/biopiracy-law-and-the-balkanization-of-the-genescape/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:People Plants and the Law
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ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220217T160000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20220217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T232137
CREATED:20220205T004014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220205T004859Z
UID:1932-1645113600-1645117200@www.plantsuccess.org
SUMMARY:Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Melanie Wilkinson and Hendrik Poorter
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-1/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Plant Success":MAILTO:admin@plantsuccess.org
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