LEC - Sustainable Agriculture

An insight into the new science actions supported by NERC Council that will come out of the 2010 theme action plans. The focus will be on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources theme.

LEC Research Seminar: Living with Environmental Change

Professor Andrew Watkinson, Director of Living with Environmental Change, NERC

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 1600-1700
Biology Large Lecture Theatre

The seminar with be followed by refreshments in the LEC Atrium.

Nitrogen competition in the rhizosphere

Professor Davey Jones, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, UK

Wednesday 24 March 2010, 1600-1700
Furness Lecture Theatre 2

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling

Dr Michel Ghanem, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Wednesday 14 April 2010, 1600-1700
Furness Lecture Theatre 1

Soil salinity is an increasing problem for agriculture around the world. While most attention has focused on the role of crop ion accumulation (especially in reproductive organs that contribute to yield), salinity also constitutes an osmotic stress that immediately alters plant hormone relations immediately after stress imposition. Hormonal profiling following stress imposition revealed temporal correlations between leaf growth and senescence and concentrations of the plant hormones cytokinins...

Biological Pesticides Against Insect Crop Pests in Asia and Africa: Turning Research Into Use in Developing Countries

Dr David Grzywacz, University of Greenwich, UK

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 1600-1700
Furness Lecture Theatre 2

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

Manipulating photosynthesis and photoprotection in tropical rice

Dr Erik Murchie, University of Nottingham, UK

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 1600-1700
Furness Lecture Theatre 2

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

LEC Research Seminar: Challenges for improving crop production and quality: The role of GM and conventional technologies

Professor Peter Shewry, Director of the Centre for Crop Genetic Improvement, Rothamsted Research

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 1600-1700
Biology Large Lecture Theatre

The seminar with be followed by refreshments in the LEC Atrium.

LEC Research Seminar: 25 years of the Ozone Hole: The World Avoided

Professor John Pyle, FRS, Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge

Wednesday 16 June 2010, 1600-1700
Biology Large Lecture Theatre

The seminar with be followed by refreshments in the LEC Atrium.

Water saving agriculture and food security in China

Professor Kang Shaozhong, China Agricultural University

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 1030-1230
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Tea/coffee will be served from 10am.

Food Security and Safety Symposium

Mon 13 - Wed 15 September 2010
Lancaster University

Organised jointly between the SEB Education & Public Affairs Section and Lancaster University.

Current research to advance sustainable dry-land farming in Australia

Dr John Kirkegaard, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Thursday 16 September 2010, 1600-1700
Furness Lecture Theatre 3

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

Sustainable diets: Too complex, too nanny-state - or inevitable?

Professor Tim Lang, City University London

Thursday 14 October 2010, 1900-2000
Banqueting Suite, Lancaster Town Hall

Professor Tim Lang, who used to farm in the Forest of Bowland, now advises the Government on diet and the role of the supermarkets. He is a top-level advisor to the World Health Organisation, the European Commission and the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and has advised four Parliamentary enquiries into food standards, obesity and globalisation.

CANCELLED - Molecular networks regulating germination

Dr Mike Holdsworth, University of Nottingham

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 1600-1700
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

Ameliorating the impacts of salinity on crop yield by altering root-to-shoot hormonal signalling

Dr Michel Ghanem, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Wednesday 16 February 2011, 1600-1700
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Feeding nine billion: the challenge to sustainable crop production and other disciplines

Professor Bill Davies, LEC

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 1600-1700
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

LEC Research Seminar

Unpicking the web of plant defence signalling networks

Dr Luis A. J. Mur, IBERS: Aberystwyth University

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 1600-1700
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Plant defence against pathogens is co-ordinated by multiple signals which are differentially employed against different types of pathogenic attack. Classically, salicylic acid is thought to play a defensive role against biotrophic pathogens (which cause diseases which have extended periods where host tissue is alive) and jasmonic acid with ethylene mediating defence against nectrophic pathogens (where disease immediately kills host tissue). In reality, a wider array of defence signals are...

Science, media, policy and wildlife: the badger/bovine TB controversy

Dr Angela Cassidy (ESRC/RELU Research Fellow), School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 1200-1300
Bowland Nth SR 17

A LEC/Centre for Science Studies Seminar

Vegetable vampire or grassland guardian? Understanding the role of the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor in maintaining grassland biodiversity

Dr Duncan Cameron, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield

Wednesday 25 May 2011, 1600-1700
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Over the last two centuries, parasitic plants, such as the Witchweed (Striga) and broomrape (Orobanche) have devastated crops in agricultural ecosystems around the globe. In the UK, the parasitic plant Rhinanthus minor was once considered a parasitic weed earning the common name 'stealer of bread' due to its devastation of cereal crops cross Europe. An understanding of the fundamental biology of Rhinanthus, the fact that it does not form a persistent seed bank and...

Securing Foreign Interest in Developing Environmental Competence in Africa

Thu 11 - Fri 12 August 2011
Meeting Room 2, Conference Centre

2nd Academia for Green Africa (AFGA) Conference

SEB Plant Transport Group Meeting 2011

Wed 14 - Fri 16 September 2011
Lancaster University

The Plant Transport Group will be holding its next meeting in Lancaster next September - anyone interested in membrane transport in plants is warmly invited to attend.

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Postgraduate Conference

Wednesday 05 October 2011, 1400-1700
Lancaster University

To welcome the new PhD students, the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture will host a postgraduate conference on the afternoon of Wednesday 5 October 2011. Programme starts at 2pm with the introduction of new PhD students by their supervisors, followed by a series of talks by our current students on their PhD research.

Plant perception and response to hypoxia solved

Professor Mike Holdsworth, University of Nottingham

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 1300-1400
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

Nutrient retention by constructed wetland in agricultural areas

Dr Nerilde Favaretto, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 1200-1300
LEC LG505

Centre for Sustainable Water Management Seminar

Mineral Solutions to Global Problems: How can minerals feed the world in 2050?

Professor David Manning, University of Newcastle

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 1300-1400
George Fox Lecture Theatre 2

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seminar

Impact of Water Saving Agriculture on ground water levels and ecosystem services in NW China

Professor Shaozhong Kang, China Agricultural University

Monday 06 February 2012, 1400-1500
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Professor Shaozhong Kang and colleagues will give some brief talks on their work on water saving agriculture in the Shiyang River Valley in NW China. The work links plant biology and food production to irrigation science and ecology. They are assessing the effects of water saving on ground water levels and the consequent effect of this on ecosystem services.

Physiological Trait Based Plant Breeding

Dr Alistair Pask, CIMMYT - International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico

Thursday 26 April 2012, 1300-1400
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

LEC Seminar

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