Events
Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium
ZoomIn 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. The
Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Genevieve Durrington and Gabrielle Hartill
ZoomThis 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.
Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples, and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment
ZoomThis 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
Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Vanessa Tonet and Tom Fisher
ZoomVanessa Tonet What kills leaves: mechanisms and recovery The 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. Tackling this question, we investigated the role of xylem failure in leaf death by comparing the
Reconsidering Japan’s Plant Patent Movement: National Histories, Colonial Legacies, and Transpacific Dynamics
ZoomPresented by Kjell Ericson from Kyoto University. A 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
Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Cade Kane
ZoomCade Kane Abscisic acid can augment, but is not essential for autumnal leaf senescence Senescence 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
Talking Plant Science: Rana Munns
ZoomThe 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. Plant capacities to adapt to abiotic stresses Climate change and the challenge of feeding an increasing world population pose two existential threats. Climate change causes increased global temperatures that
Seeds as deep time technologies
ZoomPresented by Courtney Fullilove from Wesleyan University. This 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
The Beyond Intellectual Property Moment in Historical Context
ZoomPresented by Graham Dutfield from the University of Leeds. In 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
Centre for Plant Success Webinar Series: Christopher Blackman and Kate Johnson
ZoomChristopher Blackman Plant drought experiments: why, what, when, where and how? Drought 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
