Monday 17th February, 4pm to 5pm (UK time) - in Microsoft Teams.
The Vegetable Genetic Improvement Network (VeGIN) brings together research focused on outdoor vegetable crops and encourages collaborations between industry and researchers to address how genetic improvement of crop varieties can contribute to a sustainable increase in food production to meet the twin challenges of food security and climate change. Key research contributions are being delivered by the University of Warwick, Harper Adams University and the Met Office. VeGIN is funded by Defra.
A key aim of VeGIN is to discover genetic traits that will improve crop resilience in the face of climate change. This includes responses to stresses induced by environmental challenges such as flooding and drought, which is the focus of the research at Harper Adams University. This webinar will describe the research and the crops and stresses that are being targeted.
Andrew Beacham is Senior Lecturer of Crop Production at Harper Adams University (HAU). His work focusses on studying abiotic stress of fresh produce species including lettuce, Brassica, carrot, onion and culinary herb crops, in order to improve crop performance in environmentally stressful situations. His work develops resources for plant breeding programmes and is interested in defining the molecular mechanisms underlying such traits. He is HAU Principal Investigator of the Vegetable Genetic Improvement Network (VeGIN) and in this webinar he will summarise recent and on-going work at HAU on abiotic trait discovery.
Jim Monaghan is Professor of Crop Science at HAU and has worked on the VeGIN project since 2014. He has supervised a number of projects that have utilised VeGIN genetic resources, and he will give a summary of some of the research that illustrates the potential to go from basic phenotyping information to commercially relevant outputs.
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