Harnessing the diversity in plants for a changing world

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity is the key factor in ecosystem resilience. Understanding and utilising biological diversity is a powerful tool to bolster crop performance in our changing world. By drawing inspiration from nature's playbook, we can utilise genetic variation within and between plant species to tackle the challenge of meeting food security under increasingly stressful environmental conditions.

This seminar will showcase plant-based climate-smart agriculture applications from New Zealand and the Pacific region, where such approaches are now becoming the norm after decades of degradation of fragile agroecosystems. The presentation will focus on sustainable plant-based innovation that synthesises intraspecific and interspecific plant diversity with optimal resource use to strengthen these systems against the mounting challenges posed by climate change.

See also:

https://www.aciar.gov.au/project/crop-2020-185

https://www.aciar.gov.au/project/clim-2020-186

https://youtu.be/LIl4RNCumkk