GFS Coffee Break Talk: Sustainable Crop Nutrition
Duration: 20 mins 28 secs
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| Description: | Talk by Dr Min-Yao Jhu |
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| Created: | 2022-07-04 16:37 |
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| Collection: | Global Food Security |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | A.B. Youngman |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | Crop plant productivity is highly dependent on the availability of a nitrogen source. Since the development of nitrogenous fertilizers, many farmers have generally provided inorganic fertilizers to increase crop yields. However, using inorganic fertilizers is an expensive solution for smallholder farmers in Africa, and heavy fertilizer usage has created severe water pollution problems in many areas. Based on our current understanding of how plants form nodules and associate with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, we aim to produce self-fertilizing crops by transferring this symbiosis relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria from legumes to cereals. My research projects are investigating existing signalling and developmental mechanisms in barley lateral root or nodule-like structures and attempting to engineer nodule organogenesis in barley. |
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