Lecture: Crop Wild Relatives – ‘Adapting agriculture to climate change’ – Dr Michiel van Slageren
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Monday, 14 October 2013 - 12:30pm
Michiel van Slageren has a background in plant taxonomy and has been with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew since 1995. Michiel currently holds the position of International Projects Co-ordinator (Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, Kew). He has worked on international seed collecting projects in Africa and the Middle-East and now has responsibility for several seed banking projects in Australia.
Michiel will deliver a talk on current work around adaptation of agriculture in changing climates. The Millennium Seed Bank, Kew is collaborating with Global Crop Diversity Trust (and others) on a project called ‘Adapting agriculture to climate change’.
The main objective of the project is to collect, protect and prepare the wild relatives of the world’s most important food crops, in a form that plant breeders can readily use to produce varieties adapted to future climatic conditions.
The ‘Adapting agriculture to climate change’ project started in 2011 and receives considerable funding from the Norwegian Government. Australia has a number of wild crop relatives, including endemic sorghums, which will be banked as part of the project.
DATE: Monday, 14 October 2013
TIME: 12.30 to 1.30pm
LOCATION: Australian National Botanic Gardens Theatrette, Administration Building
