Argentina - UK partnership to improve wheat grain quality
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Lancaster Environment Centre
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| Description | Earlham Institute early career exchange |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organised and supported an Argentinian early career researcher to visit Earlham |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Earlham Institute hosted our visitor and arranged for them to present a seminar and meet with staff |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | John Innes exchange visits |
| Organisation | John Innes Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to organisation and funding of exchange visits |
| Collaborator Contribution | Argentinian researchers visited John Innes to collaborate on manuscript preparation, and separately as part of early career researcher exchange visits |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Rothamsted Research |
| Organisation | Rothamsted Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Lancaster Researchers have invited Rothamsted Research leaders as in-person participants in both Argentina-UK partnering meetings, and exchanged research ideas through presentations, round tables and a joint visit to The University of Buenos Aires. rothamsted researchers were invited to participate in UK-Argentina early career researcher exchanges. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Rothamsted research leaders have contributed to discussions about potential joint funding opportunities with University of Buenos Aires and offered opportunities to engage with their research resources, in particular phenotyping facilities, crop nutrition trials and grain quality research, as well as the Delivering Sustainable Wheat program. |
| Impact | Meeting presentations at UK-Argentina workshop in Buenos-Aires: - Phenotyping technologies for evaluation of key traits in wheat - Can photosynthetic improvement raise yields in wheat? Cross scale modelling of European Winter Wheat |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Buenos Aires |
| Organisation | University of Buenos Aires |
| Country | Argentina |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organised and ran the Argentina - UK Wheat Partnership Workshop in 2022, at which nine early career researchers and six leaders from across the UK Wheat research community engaged with senior and early career academics from the University of Buenos Aires. Lancaster University facilities were also used to provide training on leaf gas exchange methods to a doctoral candidate from University of Buenos Aires. The meeting was attended by two senior academics and three early career researchers from Lancaster, who brought their experience in BBSRC funded wheat research and wheat physiology. Lancaster staff subsequently used their networks to supported arrangements for a 2023 return-leg workshop in Buenos Aires and a 2024 exchange visit to the UK from an Argentinian early career researcher who was provided basic training on use of leaf gas exchange and presented a seminar to the Plant and Crop Sciences research group at Lancaster, as well as visiting the John Innes Centre and Earlham Institute. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Two senior academics and an early career researcher travelled to the UK for the Argentina - UK Wheat Partnership Workshop. They presented key experimental results and approaches used at the University of Buenos Aires, and represented the Argentinian wheat improvement community through discussion of sectoral and environmental challenges and opportunities in Argentina. The same researchers organised an excellent workshop in Buenos Aires in 2023, with contributions from Argentinian colleagues, UK visitors from Lancaster and Rothamsted Research, and online presentations from two additional UK and one Spanish researcher. Tours of facilities at UBA were provided. |
| Impact | UK - Argentina Wheat Working Group |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | University of Liverpool |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to grant applications, research discussions, exchanged materials |
| Collaborator Contribution | Led and contributed to grant applications, research discussions, exchanged materials |
| Impact | Funded research projects |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Argentina - UK Wheat 2nd Partnership Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A return-leg workshop in Buenos Aires, hosted by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) through Prof. Daniel Miralles. The meeting brought together UK researchers (Samuel Taylor, Lancaster University and Malcolm Hawkesford, Rothamsted Research) with c. 20 wheat researchers from a variety of agencies in Argentina to exchange research. In addition to in-person attendees, virtual talks were presented by Dr. Laura Dixon (University of Leeds), Dr. Rachel Rusholme-Pilcher (Earlham Institute), and Prof. Gustavo Slafer (ICREA, AGROTECNIO and University of Lleida). Research presentations were set alongside tours of facilities at UBA and a discussion session led by the UBA International Cooperation and Relations Department addressing funding opportunities for future collaboration. The networking activies successfully created links between Argentinian and UK researchers that will be followed up in 2024 with further exchange visits that exploit these connections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Argentina - UK Wheat Partnership Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Argentina - UK Wheat Partnership Workshop brought together experts in the field of wheat yield and grain quality to discuss the current science and future directions in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Argentina - UK Wheat Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Establishment of the Argentina - UK Wheat Working Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Argentina-UK early career exchange visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I organised and part-hosted an early career researcher from Argentina, who visited Lancaster University, John Innes Centre, and Earlham Institute, to learn about UK wheat research and facilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Keynote lecture on 'Improving photosynthesis, the engine of life to sustainably increase crop yields' at the Yangling International Agri-Science Forum, , Yangling, China, October 22- 26, 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Increased knowledge and awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UK-Argentina Early Career Researcher visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I solicited application and made travel and accomodation arrangements for two UK early career researchers to visit the University of Buenos Aires, to gain experience of research facilities there and interact with the Argentinian wheat and barley improvement community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |