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il curriculum in Produttività delle Piante coltivate, Corso di dottorato in Scienze agrarie, organizza venerdì 26 marzo con inizio alle ore 9:00, un seminario dal titolo:

Translational Research in Agriculture: What works and what doesn’t?

Relatore: dott. John Passioura.

John Passioura currently holds an emeritus appointment at CSIRO Agriculture in Canberra and was formerly Leader of the Crop Adaptation Program there. 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.

Introductory Note: Much agricultural research is done in laboratories or controlled environments and aims to improve agricultural productivity (i.e. “translation” to the field). This aim can be achieved with genetic transformation, but only if the gene(s) involved do not damage the metabolism or physiology of the crop plants - e.g. Bt, herbicide resistance, or quality of the ingredients of the endosperm. Much effort has gone into prospecting for single genes that could reduce damage from abiotic “stresses” – e.g. drought, heat, waterlogging. Almost all of this activity has failed, because such environmental problems involve multigenic behavior that varies with other environmental variables – e.g. phenology. I will use water-limited agriculture as a source of agronomic insights into how agronomists have substantially improved crop yields from given limited water supplies. Generally, these insights have followed the dictum of Louis Pasteur that “chance favours the prepared mind”

Il seminario si terrà sulla piattaforma Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95107922952?pwd=TTlwV3EvNGM0MWk1czBXS1U0dzdqQT09

Il seminario si terrà in lingua inglese e ai dottorandi che parteciperanno saranno riconosciuti 0,5 CFR.

Contatto per tutte le informazioni: prof. Francesco Giunta giunta@uniss.it

Margherita Scanu

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ACTIVITY OF THE PHD COURSE IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Compulsory for PhD students on the course in Agricultural Sciences - curriculum in Productivity of Cultivated Plants

Optional for PhD students on other courses

the curriculum in Productivity of Cultivated Plants, PhD course in Agricultural Sciences, is organising on Friday 26 March, starting at 9:00, a seminar entitled:

Translational Research in Agriculture: What works and what doesn't?

Speaker: Dr John Passioura.

John Passioura currently holds an emeritus appointment at CSIRO Agriculture in Canberra and was formerly Leader of the Crop Adaptation Program there. 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.

Introductory Note: Much agricultural research is done in laboratories or controlled environments and aims to improve agricultural productivity (i.e. “translation” to the field). This aim can be achieved with genetic transformation, but only if the gene(s) involved do not damage the metabolism or physiology of the crop plants - e.g. Bt, herbicide resistance, or quality of the ingredients of the endosperm. Much effort has gone into prospecting for single genes that could reduce damage from abiotic “stresses” – e.g. drought, heat, waterlogging. Almost all of this activity has failed, because such environmental problems involve multigenic behavior that varies with other environmental variables – e.g. phenology. I will use water-limited agriculture as a source of agronomic insights into how agronomists have substantially improved crop yields from given limited water supplies. Generally, these insights have followed the dictum of Louis Pasteur that “chance favours the prepared mind”

The seminar will be held online, on the Zoom platform: https://zoom.us/j/95107922952?pwd=TTlwV3EvNGM0MWk1czBXS1U0dzdqQT09

The seminar, which is compulsory for PhD students in the Productivity of Cultivated Plants curriculum, will be held in English and PhD students who attend will be awarded 0.5 CFR.

Contact for all information: Prof. Francesco Giunta giunta@uniss.it