
Steve Long: Food, Feed and Fuel from Crops under Global Atmospheric Change. Could we have it all in 2030?
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Filmed at the Gatsby Summer School, Leeds University, 2014
Abstract
Demand for our major crops is expected to rise 30% by 2030, while we look increasingly to croplands for energy as well as food and feed. This is at a time when the rate of increase in yield seen over the past 60 years is stagnating…

Giles Oldroyd. Engineering the nitrogen symbiosis for smallholder farmers in Africa
CSVL Research, Curated Webinars / Video Lectures, WebinarsFilmed at the Gatsby Summer School, University of Cambridge 2015
Western agricultural systems are reliant on the application of inorganic nitrogen fertilisers to greatly enhance yield. However, production and application of nitrogen fertilisers account for a significant proportion of fossil fuel usage…

Beverley Glover. Flowering plant diversity: development, function and evolution
CSVL Research, Curated Webinars / Video Lectures, WebinarsFilmed at the Gatby Summer School, University of York, 2013
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Abstract: The enormous species diversity of the flowering plants has puzzled evolutionary biologists since Darwin’s day. The rapid radiation of the flowering plants…

Jane Langdale. Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
CSVL Research, Curated Webinars / Video Lectures, WebinarsFilmed at the Long Now Foundation, March 2016.
Revolutionary rice
Feeding the world (and saving nature) in this populous century, Jane Langdale began, depends entirely on agricultural efficiency—the ability to turn a given amount of land and sunlight into ever more food. And that depends on three…

Images for Impact with Mary Williams
Plantae Webinars, Science Communication, WebinarsImages for Impact
Recorded October 2016
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About this Webinar:
Whether you’re Tweeting or teaching, well-designed images increase the impact of your message. It’s easy to make high-quality images for use in science communication (whether…

The Power of the 3 Minute Thesis: How to talk about your thesis in three minutes with Rishi Masalia
Plantae Webinars, Science Communication
About this Webinar:
In this webinar, we discuss how to craft a short, effective science communication talk for a general audience. Although this event is structured around the internationally recognized 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which is organized and run by the University of Queensland…

Career Planning for Plant Scientists with Sarah Blackford
Careers, Plantae Webinars
About this Webinar:
Planning your career is a bit of a contradiction in terms since it is hard to plan something which is influenced by so many other outside factors. However, theories suggest that there are particular factors and activities, dispositions and strategies which can help you to develop…