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Crop and soil management to enhance crop production
Friday 22 June 2012, 0900-1400
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
| Global perspectives on Food Security | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09:10-09:30 | Bill Davies (Lancaster University, UK) | International initiatives to overcome the effects of crop water deficits |
| 09:30-09:50 | Fusuo Zhang (China Agricultural University, Beijing, China) | Reconciling nutrient application with food security |
| 09:50-10:10 | Juan Jose Alarcon (CSIC Murcia, Spain) | Water and food security in the Mediterranean |
| Crop improvement | ||
| 10:10-10:30 | Eric Ober (Rothamsted Research) | Genetic variation in crop water use efficiency |
| 10:30-10:50 | Lixing Yuan (China Agricultural University, Beijing, China) | Genetic and molecular dissection of maize root systems for nitrogen use efficiency |
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee | |
| Hormone Interactions | ||
| 11:10-11:30 | Sally Wilkinson (Lancaster University, UK) | Plant hormone interactions: innovative targets for crop breeding and management |
| 11:30-11:50 | Chunjian Li | Influence of auxin on nicotine synthesis and potassium distribution in tobacco plants |
| Rhizosphere Physics and Biology | ||
| 11:50-12:10 | Richard Whalley (Rothamsted Research) | Plant sensing of water availability |
| 12:10-12:30 | Jianbo Shen (China Agricultural University, Beijing, China) | Manipulating root growth/rhizosphere processes by maize |
| 12:30-12:50 | Junling Zhang (China Agricultural University, Beijing, China) | Do arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi still contribute to plant nutrient uptake in high input agro-ecosystems? |
| 15:50-13:10 | Ian Dodd (Lancaster University, UK) | Exploiting plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in sustainable agriculture |
| 13:10-14:00 | General Discussion & Lunch | |
All Welcome!