• By 2050 there will be an extra two billion people on the planet and there is no more agricultural land to meet the demand for food.
• Climate change presents added challenges to food production, with agriculture currently producing 30% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
• With the need to develop climate-resilient crops, modern genetics offers a promising approach to addressing many of these complex issues.
• During this talk, Professor Graham Moore will draw on his own research and that of colleagues at the John Innes Centre, with the focus on prospects for sustainable and eco-friendly crop production in the coming decades.

ATTENDEES
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SPEAKER

Professor Graham Moore
Current position. Deputy Director, John Innes Centre, and Programme Lead for BBSRC’s cross-institutional wheat programme, Designing Future Wheat.

Board membership has included: The European representative on the Board of the CGIAR WHEAT programme covering CIMMYT–ICARDA programmes to breed wheat for the resource-poor in the developing World; Board of the G20 Global Wheat Initiative, initiated by the G20 Agricultural Ministers.

Research: Graham developed the concept of cereal synteny, for which he was awarded the Royal Society Darwin Medal; he also characterised the major ancestral event which occurred in wheat, stabilising this cereal and doubling its grain number, so revealing the extraordinary value of this event to agriculture; he was awarded the Rank Prize for Nutrition in 2018 for his contribution to wheat research through developing the synteny concept, a wheat pre-breeding programme and the characterisation of the ancestral event which doubled wheat grain number.

• 18.00 Registration and refreshments
• 18.30 Welcome and introduction
• 18.40 Agrifood science in a time of climate change Professor Graham Moore, John Innes Centre
• 19.25 Q&A
• 19.45 Networking reception
• 20.15 Close