Next CPPS Event for the Diary: Workshop Day
Title: Crops and Climate Change
Date: 14 July 2011, 9:30-16:00
Venue: NIAB’s Innovation Farm, Cambridge CB3 0LE
The day will start with talks and poster booster sessions in the morning, and will conclude with a guided tour of NIAB’s Innovation Farm. Registration details will be advertised in subsequent newsletters, and on the CPPS website.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
CPPS Seminar 25th February
Graham Moore
John Innes Centre
Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat
25 February @ 4pm
Large Lecture Theatre
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Download the poster.
John Innes Centre
Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat
25 February @ 4pm
Large Lecture Theatre
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Download the poster.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
CPPS Seminar: 5 February 2009
The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates
Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen
Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00
Department of Plant Sciences Large Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
Abstract:
Using bio-fuels, such as bio-ethanol or bio-diesel in transportation, or biomass in power generation reduces CO2 emissions as the carbon is fixed by the plants from the atmosphere and saves the equivalent fossil fuel. The perennial rhizomatous C4 grass Miscanthus has one of the highest energy intensities per hectare of land in Europe. Here we model the future potential of Europe to produce Miscanthus with four different future land use and climate change scenarios and conclude that up to 17% of Europe’s current primary energy consumption could be provided by this bio-energy crop by the year 2080 but that inter-annual variation of crop yield can be more than 20%. We conclude that that the highest greenhouse gas mitigation from bio-energy can be achieved by growing a Miscanthus crop on existing fertile and degraded arable land and not on land with a currently undisturbed ecosystem.
Download the poster: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/pdfs/Hastings.pdf
Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen
Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00
Department of Plant Sciences Large Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
Abstract:
Using bio-fuels, such as bio-ethanol or bio-diesel in transportation, or biomass in power generation reduces CO2 emissions as the carbon is fixed by the plants from the atmosphere and saves the equivalent fossil fuel. The perennial rhizomatous C4 grass Miscanthus has one of the highest energy intensities per hectare of land in Europe. Here we model the future potential of Europe to produce Miscanthus with four different future land use and climate change scenarios and conclude that up to 17% of Europe’s current primary energy consumption could be provided by this bio-energy crop by the year 2080 but that inter-annual variation of crop yield can be more than 20%. We conclude that that the highest greenhouse gas mitigation from bio-energy can be achieved by growing a Miscanthus crop on existing fertile and degraded arable land and not on land with a currently undisturbed ecosystem.
Download the poster: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/pdfs/Hastings.pdf
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CPPS seminar
New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants
Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth
30 October 2008
Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth
30 October 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
CPPS seminar
Improving wheat for processing and nutrition
Professor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden
24 January 2008
Professor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden
24 January 2008
Monday, October 1, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
CPPS seminar
The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex
Professor John Crawford,
University of Abertay, Dundee
22 February 2007
(Download the poster as a pdf)
http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/6020
Professor John Crawford,
University of Abertay, Dundee
22 February 2007
(Download the poster as a pdf)
http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/6020
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