Future plant breeding solutions to drive a sustainable agri-food industry
Session 1
Recording from session 1 of the NIAB and SRUC seminar celebrating the science and work of our former colleague Professor Ian Mackay. Includes: Welcome and introduction Professor Mario Caccamo, NIAB Chief Executive and Professor Wayne Powell, SRUC Principal and Chief Executive followed by MAGIC moments: the potential of pre-breeding - Dr Phil Howell, Head of Plant Breeding, NIAB. Breeding for tomorrow: insights from analyses of historical plant variety datasets - Dr Rajiv Sharma and CJ Yang, SRUC. Breeding for all, hunger for non - Dr John Hickey, Head of Corn Product Design, Bayer CropScience. Mac and mining of genetic resources - Dr Sarah Hearne, Genetic Resources Program Director, CIMMYT, Mexico.
Session 2
Professor Mario Caccamo: The analysis of variety trials for causes of the yield plateau effect - Haidee Philpott, Senior Statistician, NIAB. Followed by Application of quantitative genetics methods for the exploitation of novel wheat diversity - Dr Tally Wright, Group Leader in Quantitative Genetics, NIAB. Sharing confidential genetic data for crop improvement - Professor Richard Mott Weldon, Professor of Computational and Statistical Genetics, University College London.
