First international workshop on “Application of Synchrotron Imaging for Crop Improvement” (Synchcrop2014) to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Canada
April 21, 2014
first international workshop on “Application of Synchrotron Imaging for Crop Improvement” (Synchcrop2014), June 10-12, 2014 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
(https://event-wizard.com/synchrotronimaging2014/0/welcome/)
The Workshop will explore the application of current and emerging plant imaging approaches to increase the effectiveness, while reducing time and cost of developing new crop cultivars.
You will learn:
- Recent efforts in imaging plant roots in their natural environment – as they grow – down to the micron and sub-micron level, to better understand the root rhizoshpere in improving crop yield.
- Recent advances in the characterization of plant disease infection process, significantly improving plant disease resistance and substantially reducing the time to develop disease resistant cultivars.
- Characterizing structural and chemical mode of action of plant diseases and pests.
- Challenges and opportunities in applying plant imaging as a predictor of field performance.
Internationally renowned scientists will be speaking to this at the workshop, including:
- Dr. Tony Pridmore is a Director of both the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology and the Hounsfield Facility for Rhizosphere Research at the University of Nottingham. Dr. Pridmore will be speaking to automated extraction of 3D structural descriptions utilizing X-ray CT to obtain accurate quantitative descriptions of plant roots in their natural environment.
- Dr. John Doonan is Director of the National Plant Phenomic Centre at Aberystwyth University, UK. Dr. Doonan’s group uses both induced (mutants) and natural variation in experimental model systems in wheat to understand how plants grow and respond to their environment. The National Plant Phenomics Centre is pursuing the better exploitation of genomic-type information in the process of both gene discovery and plant breeding.
- Dr. Mike Dixon is the Director of the Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility (CESRF) at the University of Guelph. Dr. Dixon is also project leader for the Canadian research team investigating the contributions of plants to life support in space, as Canada’s prime contribution to the international space science objectives in life support. Dr. Dixon will be speaking on the study of plant water potential as key to understanding plants in their response to environmental variables.
To register for this workshop, follow the weblink:
https://event-wizard.com/synchrotronimaging2014/0/welcome/.
Published: April 22, 2014 |
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