The heat is on: understanding and manipulating photosynthesis in a changing climate
Tuesday 4 May 2021, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Online (Zoom)Open to
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Event Details
This seminar will explore the biochemistry of photosynthetic responses to climate change and offer insight into strategies for improvement.
Meeting food demands for the growing global human population requires improving crop productivity, and large gains are possible through enhancing photosynthetic efficiency. But agricultural production is facing unparalleled abiotic stress from global climate change, and there is an urgent need to develop resilient crops for the extreme temperature events that now seem inevitable in the coming century. Therefore, understanding and improving photosynthetic responses to changing environmental conditions is crucial in developing high-yielding resilient crops. This seminar will explore the biochemistry of photosynthetic responses to climate change and offer insight into strategies for improvement.
Speaker
University of Essex
Amanda Cavanagh is a lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Essex. She is currently working with the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project to harness advances in photosynthesis research to facilitate yield increases of staple food crops around the world. After completing her doctorate at the University of New Brunswick, Amanda joined the RIPE project as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois, where she carried out breakthrough work bo
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