RCUK-CIAT Newton Fund: Exploiting biodiversity in Brachiaria/Panicum tropical forage grasses using genetics to improve livelihoods and sustainability
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leicester
Department Name: Genetics
Abstract
The overall objective is economic development in Colombia by focused, science-based exploitation of biodiversity to develop new varieties of tropical forage grasses (Brachiaria and Panicum species and hybrids) to meet needs of small and medium scale farmers, and defined goals of environmental sustainability. The following objectives will generate underpinning knowledge for this aim:
- Identify ploidy of accessions to identify appropriate parents for breeding at diploid and polyploid levels across the germplasm collection for Brachiaria; development of genome-specific probes from NGS data to identify the genomic composition of polyploids and hybrids
- Identification of candidate genes implicated in determining forage quality (eg digestibility, lipid content to reduce enteric methane emissions) leading to an atlas of the allelic diversity; Gain improved knowledge of apomixis, its genes and seed production for exploitation in breeding
- RNA-seq from 30 to 40 accessions of both genera to prioritize candidate genes for breeding, building towards a pan-genome defining variation across the genera. Analyse RNA-seq data for evidence of genome interactions and differential gene expression in hybrids
- Define pull from improvements in environmental and sustainability requirements (GHG, soils/erosion, water, nutrient cycling) from forage crops; Define economic pull for defined forage grass improved characters from farmers and breeders in Colombia; Measure the economic value of traits and market sizes for improved Brachiaria seed; define measures for environmental benefits.
- Make RNAi and CRISPR-CAS9 constructs designed to modify candidate genes to improve forage quality
- Plan second and third years programme based on results
- Outputs and capacity building: Training of CIAT staff and students in UK to raise technical skills and experience; allow UK participants to gain international experience at CIAT; Prepare publications, blogs, website for farmers, policy makers, public, hold a workshop to disseminate results.
- Identify ploidy of accessions to identify appropriate parents for breeding at diploid and polyploid levels across the germplasm collection for Brachiaria; development of genome-specific probes from NGS data to identify the genomic composition of polyploids and hybrids
- Identification of candidate genes implicated in determining forage quality (eg digestibility, lipid content to reduce enteric methane emissions) leading to an atlas of the allelic diversity; Gain improved knowledge of apomixis, its genes and seed production for exploitation in breeding
- RNA-seq from 30 to 40 accessions of both genera to prioritize candidate genes for breeding, building towards a pan-genome defining variation across the genera. Analyse RNA-seq data for evidence of genome interactions and differential gene expression in hybrids
- Define pull from improvements in environmental and sustainability requirements (GHG, soils/erosion, water, nutrient cycling) from forage crops; Define economic pull for defined forage grass improved characters from farmers and breeders in Colombia; Measure the economic value of traits and market sizes for improved Brachiaria seed; define measures for environmental benefits.
- Make RNAi and CRISPR-CAS9 constructs designed to modify candidate genes to improve forage quality
- Plan second and third years programme based on results
- Outputs and capacity building: Training of CIAT staff and students in UK to raise technical skills and experience; allow UK participants to gain international experience at CIAT; Prepare publications, blogs, website for farmers, policy makers, public, hold a workshop to disseminate results.
Planned Impact
ODA objectives will be developed alongside scientific aims as we (a) build a research and innovation partnership to support economic development and environmental sustainability, and (b) develop in-country research and innovation capacity for long-term sustainable growth in the post-conflict environment.
Forage grass production is critical to the livelihoods of the small and medium size farmer in tropical Colombia, with great potential to increase livestock production with low inputs, but faces major current- erosion, disease, water - and future - climate change, new diseases - challenges. Small-scale farmers have limited resources, making genetic improvement a key approach. In addition to genomics and bioinformatics, we use UK expertise in the target traits to address the scientific and crop improvement problems. We will provide training to support transfer of technology and expertise to enable implementation via staff exchanges (particularly staff and students from Colombia learning technology in the UK by undertaking research under the supervision of the UK Investigators and their research groups), collaboration and free exchange of data.
The project addresses official development assistance, ODA, objectives through its applied and scientific aims. All work is focused to support economic development and welfare, and our programme includes developing research and innovation capacity to enable long-term sustainable growth in Colombia, an OECD Development Assistance Committee "Upper Middle Income Country" with particular challenges in livestock areas, with most opportunities to benefit in the post-conflict environment, but much poverty among the rural population of farmers and labourers. Economic development and improved welfare (including their health and education opportunities) at the farmer level comes from improved crops. Even 'standing still' in terms of crop production is an enormous challenge. New disease types (biotic stress) are continuously attacking existing crop varieties, while the increasing lack of fresh water and climate change (abiotic stress) threaten current yields, and cannot be met with the unsustainable options of more land, water, crop protection chemicals and fertilizer. Indeed, national policy is to reduce the area of agriculture though sustainable intensification, leaving land spared for biodiversity. Changing farming practices threaten the environment and the social structure. By delivering understanding and approaches with appropriate training and development, our programme builds strongly on world-class strength in UK technical knowledge in genomics and bioinformatics, including germplasm, breeding, and having a pathway for delivery to breeders and farmers, identifying and meeting their challenges. We have shown how groups work together already, and embedded within our programme are management, training at various levels (where our UK Universities are all ranked among the best), dissemination and public accessibility of data, policy impacts, the importance of health and safety in the workplace, and ethical issues.
Success is measured by 1) identifying trait genes and their allelic diversity for exploitation in breeding programmes; 2) identifying genomes in polyploids and defining the ways they may be brought together to generate resilient, seed-producing, hybrids; 3) identifying traits for introduction into forage grasses with economic and sustainability advantages; 4) having a pathway for release of varieties using germplasm and new breeding approaches.
Colombian farms are formally defined as Small (1 to 50 cattle) and Medium (51-250 cattle) (National definition by FEDEGAN); these sizes of producers are open to increased production. For economic work in CIAT, we will consider trying to find a UK PhD student who would be interested in adding a case study of Colombian livestock agriculture to their project likely to be based on an African system, spending 2 up to 6 months in CIAT.
Forage grass production is critical to the livelihoods of the small and medium size farmer in tropical Colombia, with great potential to increase livestock production with low inputs, but faces major current- erosion, disease, water - and future - climate change, new diseases - challenges. Small-scale farmers have limited resources, making genetic improvement a key approach. In addition to genomics and bioinformatics, we use UK expertise in the target traits to address the scientific and crop improvement problems. We will provide training to support transfer of technology and expertise to enable implementation via staff exchanges (particularly staff and students from Colombia learning technology in the UK by undertaking research under the supervision of the UK Investigators and their research groups), collaboration and free exchange of data.
The project addresses official development assistance, ODA, objectives through its applied and scientific aims. All work is focused to support economic development and welfare, and our programme includes developing research and innovation capacity to enable long-term sustainable growth in Colombia, an OECD Development Assistance Committee "Upper Middle Income Country" with particular challenges in livestock areas, with most opportunities to benefit in the post-conflict environment, but much poverty among the rural population of farmers and labourers. Economic development and improved welfare (including their health and education opportunities) at the farmer level comes from improved crops. Even 'standing still' in terms of crop production is an enormous challenge. New disease types (biotic stress) are continuously attacking existing crop varieties, while the increasing lack of fresh water and climate change (abiotic stress) threaten current yields, and cannot be met with the unsustainable options of more land, water, crop protection chemicals and fertilizer. Indeed, national policy is to reduce the area of agriculture though sustainable intensification, leaving land spared for biodiversity. Changing farming practices threaten the environment and the social structure. By delivering understanding and approaches with appropriate training and development, our programme builds strongly on world-class strength in UK technical knowledge in genomics and bioinformatics, including germplasm, breeding, and having a pathway for delivery to breeders and farmers, identifying and meeting their challenges. We have shown how groups work together already, and embedded within our programme are management, training at various levels (where our UK Universities are all ranked among the best), dissemination and public accessibility of data, policy impacts, the importance of health and safety in the workplace, and ethical issues.
Success is measured by 1) identifying trait genes and their allelic diversity for exploitation in breeding programmes; 2) identifying genomes in polyploids and defining the ways they may be brought together to generate resilient, seed-producing, hybrids; 3) identifying traits for introduction into forage grasses with economic and sustainability advantages; 4) having a pathway for release of varieties using germplasm and new breeding approaches.
Colombian farms are formally defined as Small (1 to 50 cattle) and Medium (51-250 cattle) (National definition by FEDEGAN); these sizes of producers are open to increased production. For economic work in CIAT, we will consider trying to find a UK PhD student who would be interested in adding a case study of Colombian livestock agriculture to their project likely to be based on an African system, spending 2 up to 6 months in CIAT.
Publications
Hanley SJ
(2021)
Allele mining in diverse accessions of tropical grasses to improve forage quality and reduce environmental impact.
in Annals of botany
Jones C
(2021)
A Comparison of Differential Gene Expression in Response to the Onset of Water Stress Between Three Hybrid Brachiaria Genotypes
in Frontiers in Plant Science
Liu Q
(2024)
Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid oat species Avena longiglumis
in Scientific Data
Rathore P
(2022)
The repetitive DNA sequence landscape and DNA methylation in chromosomes of an apomictic tropical forage grass, Cenchrus ciliaris
in Frontiers in Plant Science
Tomaszewska P
(2022)
Oat chromosome and genome evolution defined by widespread terminal intergenomic translocations in polyploids.
in Frontiers in plant science
Tomaszewska P
(2023)
Complex polyploid and hybrid species in an apomictic and sexual tropical forage grass group: genomic composition and evolution in Urochloa (Brachiaria) species.
in Annals of botany
Worthington M
(2021)
A new genome allows the identification of genes associated with natural variation in aluminium tolerance in Brachiaria grasses.
in Journal of experimental botany
Description | The Brachiaria tropical forage grasses have many genomes involved in their ancestry. We have developed genome-specific probes that enable us to determine the various genomes, and reveal those present in polyploids species and accessions, showing their ancestry and evolution, as well as aspects of repetitive DNA sequence evolution. The results are also helping resolve taxonomy in the group (Urochloa, Brachiaria, Panicum, Megathyrsus). RNA-seq was completed on 108 samples using diverse germplas |
Exploitation Route | The measurement of ploidy of the majority of the accessions in the CIAT (internationally available) germplasm collection enables rational design of within-ploidy crosses and inter-ploidy crosses to make new hybrids to enter into plant breeding trials. Diploids with promising phenotypic characteristics (eg resistances to biotic or abiotic stresses) could be subjected to ploidy duplications. The determination of the nature of the diploid genomes, and development of a probe toolkit, complements |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment |
Description | Measurements of ploidy of germplasm collection are now being integrated into the international breeding programme for tropical forage grasses at CIAT. The genome specific sequences are being used to define a robust taxonomy and phylogeny of Brachiaria/Urochloa/Panicum group of grasses. The markers developed are being used to identify unknown accessions where morphological characters are unclear. Alleles from the RNA seq are being investigated as targets for breeding and for genome editing in appropriate lines. By enabling and leading to development of new forage grasses with improved productivity and digestibility with lower environmental impact, the work leads directly towards poverty alleviation, improved socio-economic conditions, and hence post-conflict stability. The countries impacted include Colombia, Brazil,. The work is also being expanded to consider impact in Africa. Many smallholdings are run by women (while the men work in non-agricultural sectors), so the access to improved seed, through the CIAT breeding programmes, will be important for gender equivalence. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Other |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | CENTA Central England NERC Training Alliance PhD fellowship |
Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | European Union, Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, IBA-MSCA-SNLS-2020 |
Amount | € 22,250 (EUR) |
Funding ID | OCHRE 101006417 |
Organisation | University of Leicester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 |
Amount | € 212,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018) Proposal: 844564 - OCHRE |
Organisation | European Union |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 05/2019 |
End | 06/2021 |
Description | Meeting policy challenges for a responsible biodiversity based bio-economy in Colombia |
Amount | £126,874 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T025026/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2020 |
End | 05/2020 |
Description | Newton Award: Comparing alternative technologies for genetic improvement of digestibility of Brazilian grass crops |
Amount | £8,225 (GBP) |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 03/2019 |
Title | Genome-specific markers for polyploid tropical forage grasses |
Description | Using DNA sequences, major DNA motifs specific to particular diploid genomes have been identified. Used with in situ hybridization to chromosome preparations, or in sequence bioinformatic analysis, these enable identification of the genomes in diploid grasses, and the nature of the ancestral genomes present in the polyploid accessions. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Now being used to refine the taxonomy and phylogeny of the Brachiaria forage grasses; also being incorporated into breeding programmes with knowledge of genome composition. |
Title | Brachiaria and environment reference library |
Description | An endnote database has been created to store a reference library for published papers that deal with Brachiaria grasses and their environmental impact. These published papers are being used to extract information and write a review. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | No results currently available. Reference database is currently available to project team members and will be available to the wider community on publication of the review. |
Title | Cenchrus ciliaris RepeatExplorer Priyanka Rathore, Bhat, Schwarzacher, Heslop-Harrison, Tomaszewska |
Description | The repetitive DNA sequence landscape and DNA methylation in chromosomes of an apomictic tropical forage grass, Cenchrus ciliaris Abstract RepeatExplorer supplementary data for manuscript: Priyanka Rathore1, Paulina Tomaszewska[H(1] [ST(2] 2,3, Trude Schwarzacher2,4, J.S. (Pat) Heslop-Harrison2,4,* and Vishnu Bhat1 1)Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India 2)Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom 3)Department of Genetics and Cell Physiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland 4)Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization / Guangdong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China *)Corresponding author. E-mail: phh4@leicester.ac.uk and phh@molcyt.com Cenchrus ciliaris is an apomictic, allotetraploid pasture grass widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and Asia. In this work, we aim to investigate the genomic organization and characterize the nature of repetitive DNA sequences in this species. Because of the apomictic propagation, various aneuploid genotypes are found and we analysed here a 2n=4×+3=39 accession. The physical mapping of Ty1-copia and Ty3-gypsy retroelements through fluorescence in situ hybridization with global assessment of 5-methylcytosine DNA methylation through immunostaining revealed the genome-wide distribution pattern of retroelements and their association with DNA methylation. About a third of Ty1-copia sites overlapped or spanned centromeric DAPI positive heterochromatin, while the centromeric regions and arms of some chromosomes were labeled with Ty3-gypsy. Most of the retroelement sites overlapped with 5-methycytosine signals, except some Ty3-gypsy on the arms of chromosomes which did not overlap with anti-5-mC signals. Universal retrotransposon probes did not distinguish genomes of C. ciliaris showing signals in pericentromeric regions of all 39 chromosomes, unlike highly abundant repetitive DNA motifs found in survey genome sequences of C. ciliaris using graph-based clustering. Developed Cluster probes gave strong signals mostly in pericentromeric regions of about half of the chromosomes, and we suggested that they differentiate the two ancestral genomes in the allotetraploid C. ciliaris likely having different repeat sequence variants amplified before the genome came together in the tetraploid. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | data |
URL | https://leicester.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Cenchrus_ciliaris_RepeatExplorer_Priyanka_Rathore_Bh... |
Title | Tropical forage grasses RNAseq |
Description | RNAseq paired end reads (800 GByte) from 104 accessions (genotypes) of Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) gene bank collection. The data is deposited in NCBI Bioproject Accession: PRJNA513453 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This represents a major resource that will be exploited for many years by CIAT tropical grass breeding program, |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/513453 |
Description | Maria Vorontsova, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
Organisation | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Robust taxonomy for species studied; Information about original collection sites in Africa before they collections were used in South America |
Collaborator Contribution | Taxonomy, reference collections, identification of specimens |
Impact | Co-author of one paper; Secured funding for new International studentship; Complementary expertise in African grass taxonomy, phylogeography and ecology for multi-subdisciplinary |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Asia Pacific Chromosome conference talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Heslop-Harrison P, Wang Z, Tomaszewska P, Biswas M, Agrawal N, Banga S, Liu Q, Schwarzacher T (2020) The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid species. ICGSK - APCC7 Asian-Pacific Chromosome Colloquium: From Genetic information to biodiversity. Busan, Korea |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | BBC Radio Leicester discussion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Pat Heslop-Harrison has a c. 15 minute discussion on the lunchtime/drivetime BBC Radio Leicester weekday programme. Forage grass breeding was discussed in UK and international contexts on 10 January 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/radioleicester |
Description | Blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog post for the CIAT audience was written by Pat Heslop-Harrison with all the other participants in the project: "Using genome diversity for the environment, livelihoods and tropical grasslands". (A slightly modified post, for a different audience, was posted on Botany.One). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://blog.ciat.cgiar.org/using-genome-diversity-for-the-environment-livelihoods-and-tropical-gras... |
Description | Blog post - Botany.One |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A blog post for the Botany.One blog audience was written by Pat Heslop-Harrison with all the other participants in the project: "Using genome diversity for the environment, livelihoods and tropical grasslands". (A slightly modified post, for a different audience, was posted on the CIAT website). Botany One is ranked as the top botany website and blog for botanists and plant scientists (https://blog.feedspot.com/botany_blogs/), and the best blog for botany students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.botany.one/2019/01/using-genome-diversity-for-the-environment-livelihoods-and-tropical-g... |
Description | CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tomaszewska P. (2019) "Ploidy variation and genomic diversity in Brachiaria forage grasses". CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture, 15/03/2019, Cali, Colombia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Conference talk polyploidy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tomaszewska P (2021) Cytogenetics and polyploidy to exploit biodiversity in Urochloa (Brachiaria) tropical forage grasses. Annals of Botany International Academic Symposium on Polyploidy and Evolution in Plants, Guangzhou, China |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | How does this "orphan crop" tolerate toxic aluminium? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog post for the general public about our research in Brachiaria in general, and focused one of our recent projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/newsroom/how-does-orphan-crop-tolerate-toxic-aluminium |
Description | Integrating Omic-Based Technologies for the Valorisation of Peruvian Crop Biodiversity workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tomaszewska P (2019) "Determination of genome compositions in grass species using sequence and molecular cytogenetic data". Integrating Omic-Based Technologies for the Valorisation of Peruvian Crop Biodiversity workshop. 10-12/09/2019, Arequipa, Peru |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tomaszewska P (2019) "Measuring and exploiting biodiversity in Brachiaria and Panicum tropical forage grasses". Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Meeting 2019 Midlands Innovation Flow Group. 20/05/2019 Oadby, United Kingdom. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Monogram grass meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk Masters M, Tomaszewska P, Zuntini A, Heslop-Harrison P, Vorontsova M (2022) Diversity and evolution in Urochloa (Brachiaria) grasses and their application in sustainable tropical forage systems. MonoGram, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Orphan Crops: the neglected side of food security & climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog interview to PI and PD working on this project about their work on orphan crops, and the importance of research about orphan crops. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/orphan-crops-neglected-side-food-security-climate-change |
Description | Postdoc seminar at the University of Leicester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tomaszewska P (2019) "Global challenges and improving livelihoods: cytogenetics and polyploidy to exploit biodiversity in tropical forage grasses". 13/11/2019, Postdoc seminar, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation and discussion with seed technical working group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation to Herbage Seed Technical Working Group Meeting 2019 Presented potential for our plant science to feed into genetic improvement of pasture grasses |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Talk German Cytogenetics Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tomaszewska P, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison P (2021) Oat chromosome and genome evolution defined by widespread terminal intergenomic translocations in polyploids. Cytogenetics Meeting, Görlitz, Germany |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |