Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner famously said that all problems in biology are versions of three basic questions: How does it work? How is it built? How did it get that way? I’m both pleased and excited, to be one of the members of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Centre. My background is a bit like the infinitesimal model, in that I know a

We are pleased to announce that the Centre has formed new partnerships with BASF led by Partner Investigator Dr Colin Cavanagh (Head of Crop Genetics and Biometrics); and Iowa State University led by Partner Investigator Professor Sotirios Archontoulis (Professor of Integrated Cropping Systems). These new partnerships build upon the existing partnerships that the Centre has and will contribute towards research being undertaken with Chief Investigators Mark Cooper and Graeme Hammer on using crop modelling via

The end of 2023 coincided with a flurry of conferences and meetings, several of which are highlighted below. We also held a three-day in-person Chief Investigator (CI) Workshop. We revisited our research program by discussing the most exciting findings to date and highlighted again our key research areas. Through looking back at how our research has progressed and evolved over the last 2-3 years, we

The University of Florida (UF) hosted the Genotype by Environment by Management (GxExM) Symposium II this month with 80 people attending in person and 348 people registering online. This year, the Symposium was a collaboration between the Centre for Plant Success, UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and UF Horticultural Sciences Department. Through his work with the Centre, Mark Cooper led