Green Engineering - knowledge-based delivery of sustainable products in plants: Harnessing endogenous pathways to enhance yield
Lead Research Organisation:
Rothamsted Research
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
To address the increasing global demand for vegtable oils and the need for more sustainable agricultural systems we will engineer native metabolic and developmental processes to enhance oil yield in seeds and leaves. To achieve this we will use a range of genetic tools in addition to GM including natural variation mutagenesis and GE. Importantly the Government’s plan to relax the regulation of GE crops may provide us with new opportunities to improve crops for UK farmers. We will explore multiple routes for the improvement of metabolic and developmental seed traits that are components of oil yield. We aim to deliver these traits in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.; OSR) the UK’s primary oilseed crop as part of a longer-term strategy to develop our existing portfolio of OSR work. To this end the RRes transformation unit has recently developed an OSR pipeline and we will collaborate with JIC to co-develop a unique UK-focused winter OSR (WOSR) genetic resource in WP1.1. This will be supported by an associated Brassica knowledge platform in W1.2. Where appropriate however we will use the boutique oilseed crop Camelina as a rapid route to testing genetic interventions in the field. Camelina benefits from good abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and can be widely grown both in Northern latitudes and arid areas. The relatively short generation time (< 3 months) and reference genome sequence are of great utility for genome engineering. Importantly Camelina does not out-cross to wild Brassicas and is unique amongst Brassica crops being readily transformed by Agrobacterium-mediated floral dip making it less prone to somaclonal variation and an effective fast-track crop for testing traits via GM as well as deploying GE approaches. In WP1.3 we will increase seed oil yield via targeted engineering approaches and will investigate approaches to increase oil content in vegetative tissues of forage species in WP1.4 to improve ruminant livestock productivity and reduce methane emissions.
Planned Impact
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Organisations
- Rothamsted Research (Lead Research Organisation)
- Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire (Collaboration)
- University of North Texas (Collaboration)
- Sun Yat-sen University (Collaboration)
- Instituto de la Grasa (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse (Collaboration)
- Alan Turing Institute (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale (Collaboration)
- JOHN INNES CENTRE (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration)
- ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Kansas State University (Collaboration)
- University of Göttingen (Collaboration)
- University of Bonn (Collaboration)
Publications
Bramante, F.
(2025)
Freeze-thaw stability of oilseed rape oleosome emulsions
in Journal of Food Engineering
Corcoran E
(2023)
Automated extraction of pod phenotype data from micro-computed tomography
in Frontiers in Plant Science
DeAndrés-Gil C
(2024)
Characterisation of fatty acyl reductases of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seed
in Plant Science
DeAndrés-Gil C
(2025)
Wax synthases from sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds
in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Eckardt NA
(2024)
The lowdown on breakdown: Open questions in plant proteolysis.
in The Plant cell
Kaur M
(2024)
Exploiting lipid droplet metabolic pathway to foster lipid production: oleosin in focus.
in Plant cell reports
Nogueira M
(2024)
Ketocarotenoid production in tomato triggers metabolic reprogramming and cellular adaptation: The quest for homeostasis.
in Plant biotechnology journal
Piovesana M
(2023)
A point mutation in the kinase domain of CRK10 leads to xylem vessel collapse and activation of defence responses in Arabidopsis.
in Journal of experimental botany
| Description | A Platform to Rate Organisms Bred for Improved Traits and Yield (PROBITY) |
| Amount | £2,194,489 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TS/Y023358/1 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2024 |
| End | 05/2027 |
| Description | A new presymbiotic recognition mechanism from cereals enabling root invasion by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi |
| Amount | £212,114 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/Y001087/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| End | 11/2026 |
| Description | Developing Drought-Tolerant Soybean for Water-Smart Agriculture- KEC Intervention Grant |
| Amount | £33,016 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rothamsted Research |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2025 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Engineering Biology Hub for Microbial Foods |
| Amount | £14,182,511 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/Y008510/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2024 |
| End | 04/2029 |
| Description | Field demonstration and dissemination of high metabolizable energy wheat as whole crop forage- KEC Intervention Grant |
| Amount | £33,400 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rothamsted Research |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2025 |
| End | 02/2026 |
| Description | International Institute Award Tranche 1 |
| Amount | £270,830 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/Y514196/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | International Institute Award Tranche 1 |
| Amount | £270,830 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/Y514196/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | MimicWeed - Morphological, hormonal and genomic mechanisms of seed dormancy, germination and seedling vigour in weedy crop grass mimics |
| Amount | £799,621 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | APP33678 |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2025 |
| End | 04/2028 |
| Description | SW Bio DTP |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Bath |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | The genetic control of pea growth and yield under environmental stress |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2024 |
| End | 09/2028 |
| Title | Brassica napus and Camelina sativa added to KnetMiner |
| Description | KnetMiner is a gene discovery platform developed at Rothamsted that helps scientists search large volumes of scientific literature and bioscience knowledge to unveil links between the genetic and biological properties of complex, polygenic traits and diseases. We have added Brassica species (B. napus, B. rapa & B. oleracea) and Camelina sativa to the platform. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | KnetMiner is widely used as a research tool. |
| URL | https://knetminer.com/ |
| Title | Machine Learning tool for assessing seed number in pod |
| Description | In collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute we are developing a new machien learning tool which will automate the assessment of seed number within pods using images of pod data. This will help speed up analyses of traits in whole populations or large number of lines. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Helpful with 'seed number' trait measurement which is critical for this project. |
| Title | Macro for automatic tracing of seed/ovule size |
| Description | A Image J macro was created will allows for automatic analyses of image data to extract seed/ovule size data. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Shared with collaborators. |
| Description | Collaboration on ergosterol and sterol analysis in pathogenic fungi |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Biology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof Tim Barraclough, Department of Biology, University of Oxford to discuss a collaboration on ergosterol and sterol analysis in pathogenic fungi. |
| Collaborator Contribution | still in discussion |
| Impact | not yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Construction of a Winter Oilseed Rape MAGIC population |
| Organisation | John Innes Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Replication of speed breeding conditions. Genotyping of seed from first round of crossing. Half of second round of crossing. Field experiment on founders at Rothamsted. Bulking of founder seed for 2nd year field experiments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of founder seed for field experiments at Rothamsted. Sequencing of founder genomes. Optimisation of speed breeding conditions. First round of crossing for population construction. Half of second round of crossing. Field experiment on founders at JIC. |
| Impact | Presented to brassica research community at UK-BRC meeting. Will also be presented to wider stakeholders at stand at Cereals 2024. Field experiments opened to community to access and several researchers have visited to phenotype. Population will be made available to community when it is complete along with genomic resources. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Establishment of goldenbraid cloning tool box for metabolic engineering of oilseed crops and pilot scale extraction of wax from OSR biomass |
| Organisation | Instituto de la Grasa |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge and materials regarding gene construct design for metabolic engineering in oilseeds. Novel engineered crop material with modified lipids. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Instituto de la grasa contribute expertise in goldenbraid cloning and pilot scale lipid extraction and purification. |
| Impact | Academic publication, material (lipids/wax) for physical and performance testing and new constructs for metabolic engineering. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | High lipid ryegrass |
| Organisation | Aberystwyth University |
| Department | Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analysis of Lolium germplasm from IBERS breeding resilient crops ISP |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of Lolium germplasm |
| Impact | Work planned but still to be completed. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | INSA Toulouse |
| Organisation | National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Florence Bordes and Isabelle André from INSA Toulouse (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse) to discuss analysis of Yarrowia lipolytica for unusal heterogolously produced lipids. |
| Collaborator Contribution | discussion |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Multi scale phenotyping |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Initiated discussion with the Alan Turing Institute on a bilateral project to focus on multi-level imaging for phenotyping in oilseeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Turing Institute will apply machine learning to image datasets generated by Rothamsted. |
| Impact | Two meetings to discuss new methodologies for implementation of multiscale imaging. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Pea growth and yield |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Partner in SW Bio DTP |
| Collaborator Contribution | - |
| Impact | Studentship funded |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | Kansas State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | Sun Yat-Sen University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | University of Bonn |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | University of Göttingen |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Plant and Algal Lipids - International Lipidomics Society |
| Organisation | University of North Texas |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are part of the Plant and Algal lipids Interest group in the International Lipidomics society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are participants in a collaborative ring trial for lipid analytical laboratories, to standardise lipidomics analysis for plant material. It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Impact | It involves multiple laboratories testing the same sample developing their respective methods on different mass spectrometry set ups to assess the precision and accuracy of the measurements and establish a plant standard for analysis. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Title | Genetically modified plants with enhanced drought tolerance |
| Description | This invention relates to genetically modified plants with improved drought tolerance and to genetically modified cells thereof. |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | 2023 |
| Licensed | No |
| Description | A Umashankar , Uni Warwick workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anjana Magaji Umashankar attended a Jeol workshop on Serial Tomography, University of Warwick, September 2024. It was a good networking event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | EM-UKI 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anjana Umashankar attended and presented at EM-UKI 2025- annual workshop of the UK EM community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Farmers Weekly Transition Event on Precision Breeding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Freddie Theodoulou and Pete Eastmond gave talks entitled: "Precision breeding: a game changer and work in progress" and "Precision breeding: examples of how and why we are using these new technologies at Rothamsted Research", respectively, and participated in a debate. The event, held on 11 March 2025 was designed to inform farmers and other stakeholders about precision breeding technology and its benefits. An important outcome was learning of farmers' and growers' priorities for future research and an agreement to co-design future projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Farmers Weekly Transition event with a focus on Precision Breeding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 50 farmers, growers and industry stakeholders attend a Transition Event with a focus on Precision Breeding organised by Farmers Weekly. As part of this event (alongside a formal presentation), the attendees were provided with a tour of the glasshouses and shown precision bred oilseed crops being generated in WP1. The attendees were very engaged and asked a lot of questions demonstrating their interest in this new technology and how it can help crop breeding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | GRC Fostering Global Food Security, Sustainability and Climate Resilience Through Diverse Lipids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pete Eastmond presented 'Building Milk Fats From the Ground up Using Metabolons, Multifunctional Proteins and Enzyme Cascades' at GRC Fostering Global Food Security, Sustainability and Climate Resilience Through Diverse Lipids, Pomona, California. 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Gave a talk on my work on gene edited (PBO) crops at Agri-Tech Week at Rothamsted |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk on my work on gene edited (PBO) crops at Agri-Tech Week at Rothamsted. This event was attended by agribusinesses from the region (9th Nov). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | GreEng and HBio (RRes and JIC) ISP ECR joint workshop 26-27th June 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A two day joint GreEng and HBio (RRes and JIC) ISP workshop organised by and for ECRs. Hosted at Rothamsted Research, 26-27 July 2024. Objective was to foster ECR collaborations, share knowledge, raise awareness of complementary skills and diversity of BBSRC funded institute technology platforms. Involved staff from all three GreEng WPs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Hosted visit by local school children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Organised and hosted visit by local school children (biology students from St Albans School) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Interview on gene edited (PBO) crops broadcast on Farming Today (Radio 4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed for Radio 4 Farming Today (7th June) on PBOs including describing my work on gene edited high lipid grasses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Interviewed for article published in The Sunday Times on my work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed and quoted in article on my work by Caroline Wheeler published in The Sunday Times on 11th Feb |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Kick-off meeting of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pete Eastmond attended the Kick-off meeting of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein on 20-21 Jan 2025 at ICL. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/254353/bezos-centre-sustainable-protein-launches-imperial/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/254353/bezos-centre-sustainable-protein-launches-imperial/ |
| Description | Lecture to postgraduate student from University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mollie Langdon presented a talk discussing genome editing and current ongoing research in this WP- "Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to explore alterations in seed yield in Camelina sativa" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Lecture to undergraduate students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to 2nd year undergraduate students as part of their Plant Science module |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lecture to undergraduate students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to 2nd year undergraduate students (Oxford Brookes University) as part of their Plant Science module |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Organised annual OREGIN and VeGIN meeting |
| 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 | As UK-BRC representative, organised the annual OREGIN and Vegin Stakeholder meetings in Oct 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Organised annual UK-BRC meeting |
| 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 | As UK-Brassica Research Community representative, organised the annual UK-BRC meeting on 16th Oct 2023 at Wellesbourne Campus, Warwick. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Organising and hosting annual UK-Brassica Research Community meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As UK-Brassica Research Community representative, organised the annual UK-BRC meeting on 25th February 2025 at Rothamsted Research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Participated in discussions with visiting group from Food Standards Agency regarding PBOs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated on discussions with FSA who visited to learn about PBO development at Rothamsted and our views on regulatory framework (13th Nov) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation and presentation of poster ("Precision bred crops for a Sustainable Bioeconomy") at Agriscience week at Westminster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participation and presentation of poster "Precision bred crops for a Sustainable Bioeconomy- Gene Edited arable crops to benefit health and thh environment" at Agriscience week at Westminster (27th to 30th January 2025). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Participation in a pilot for a new Radio 4 programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio 4 is producing a new environmental radio programme, which is being launched next year, presented by environmental journalist, Tom Heap and physicist, Helen Czerski. I was invited to participate in a pilot for this. The subject of the pilot programme was food and the environment - how we can feed a growing world population while minimising the impact on the environment. As part of the programme we would like to discuss how we have managed to feed the growing population so far - talking about innovations around breeding and agrochemical use and how they have transformed food production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Poster presentation "Brassica Knetminer: Camelina sativa network discovery" at International Camelina Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 2024 |
| 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 | Poster presentation by Louise Michaelson at the International Camelina Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://icc2024.unl.edu/ |
| Description | Presentation at UK-BRC 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research being carried out in WP by Dr Mollie Langdon- "Using CRISPR-Cas9 to create gene edits in SAMBA in Brassica napus" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at UK-BRC meeting 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at UK-BRC meeting February 2025 titled "Making human milk fat in oilseed rape" given by WP1 member Guillaume Menard |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation at UK-BRC meeting February 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research being carried out in WP by Ms Klaudia Sokolowska- "Creating a MAGIC Oilseed Rape population" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presentation to wider community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation regarding the generation of a Winter Oilseed Rape MAGIC population |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presented FEBS Letters Award Lecture at FEBS 2023 Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented talk titled 'Plant lipid engineering to cut agricultural greenhouse gas emissions' as FEBS Lett. prize winner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presented High Lipid Forage at Cereals 2024 |
| 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 | All members of WP1 attended Cereals UK 2024 (11th and 12th June) at Newnham Farm in Hertfordshire. A stand including plants related to the WP1 'High Forage Lipids' was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/ |
| Description | Presented MAGIC OSR at Cereals 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | All members of WP1 attended Cereals UK 2024 (11th and 12th June) at Newnham Farm in Hertfordshire. A stand including plants related to the WP1 'Creating a WOSR MAGIC population' was presented in collaboration with JIC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/ |
| Description | Presented talk at 2024 International Symposium on Plant Lipids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave selected talk titled "Applying rare-variant association analysis to a wheat mutant population identifies a hypermorphic allele of ACETYL-CoA CARBOXYLASE 1 that increases leaf lipid content in grasses" at ISPL 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ispl2024.unl.edu/ |
| Description | Presented talk at BOFIN stand at Groundswell 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk on 'Precision bred high lipid forage' at the British On-Farm Innovation Network stand at Regenerative Agriculture Festival Groundswell 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presented talk at International Camelina Conference 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave selected talk entitled 'Production of the structured triacylglycerol 1,3-olein-2-palmitin in Camelina sativa seeds' at ICC 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://icc2024.unl.edu/ |
| Description | Presented talk at Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function Gordon Research Conference 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave invited talk titled "Building Milk Fats From the Ground up Using Metabolons, Multifunctional Proteins and Enzyme Cascades" as keynote in Nutritional Security session of Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function Gordon Research Conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.grc.org/plant-lipids-structure-metabolism-and-function-conference/2025/ |
| Description | Presented talk at the PROBITY session at CropTec 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk titled "precision breeding high lipid forage" at the PROBITY session at CropTec 24 organised by British On-Farm Innovation Network and participated in workshop on precision breeding with farmers and other stakeholders attending CropTec. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presented talk on crop research to visiting students from University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented talk on my research to visiting student group from University of Nottingham (7th Feb) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presented talk on crop research to visiting students from University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented talk on crop research to visiting students from University of Nottingham (19th Feb) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Presented talk to dsm-firmenich technical team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I gave an invited seminar titled "Making milk fat in microorganisms" to dsm-firmenich technical team (invited by Ross Zirkle - Director Biotechnology Scouting). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presented work on human milk fat substitutes to Food Brewer AG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Following an invitation, I presented my work on making human milk fat substitutes to Food Brewer AG - a Switzerland based food and food ingredients company. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | St Albans Girls School, July 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Louise Michaelson gave an Omega-3 research talk on Monday 8th July 2024 Talking about Science and Research at St Albans girls school to a mixed sixth form group from Hertfordshire. Outcome, facilitated a work experience visit for a sixth former. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk and panel discussion at Corteva organised event on use of NGTs (gene editing) in EU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk and took part in panel discussion regarding case for use of NGTs (gene editing) in EU. Event in Brussels organised by Corteva and attended by various stakeholders including EU politicians. Coincided with EP vote on NGT legislation on 24th Jan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | presentation GRC Ponoma, Jan 2025 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Louise Michaelson presented Plant Lipids Interest Group of the international lipidomics society : Preliminary ring trial results at Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function, at Fostering Global Food Security, Sustainability and Climate Resilience Through Diverse Lipids, Ponoma, California, USA. January 26 - 31, 2025. This resulted in recruitment of new ring members |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |