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Understanding Plant Breeding — Webinar, 26 & 27 November, 2024

Research Crop Lab
Our season opens on November 26 with ‘Understanding Plant Breeding’, the first in IFAJ’s new ‘Sharing the Knowledge’ initiative. Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel famously laid down the plant breeding framework in the 19th century; 21st century plant breeding still leans heavily on their original ideas. In this webinar, Syngenta’s Uri Krieger and Ian Jepson use the history of plant breeding as a context to better understand its importance in successful crop production, including how we can use it to develop the resilient crops needed to help growers tackle an increasingly volatile climate.

Uri, Global Head of R&D for Syngenta’s Vegetable Seeds and Flowers businesses, and Ian, Technology Leader for Field Crop Seeds, will explain different plant breeding approaches, from conventional breeding to genetically modified crops to the rise of genome editing.As with any IFAJ webinar, the presentations will be followed by open Q&A: here’s your chance to put your burning questions to two highly respected plant scientists who share more than 50 years of variety development and technology implementation between them.

What’s more, for the first time with an IFAJ webinar, it’s going to be truly global: we’re running it twice – both times live – to enable participation regardless of time zone!

 

Don’t miss out on our webinar ‘Understanding Plant Breeding’ on November 26 & 27, 2024! Register now.

Duration of the webinar: 60 minutes

Uri Krieger, Global Head R&D Vegetable Seeds and Flowers, Syngenta

Ian Jepson, Technology Leader for Field Crop Seeds, Syngenta


Mark your calendars!

Watch out for the individual eAlerts and registration emails for each of the upcoming webinars: they’ll be landing in the inboxes of IFAJ email subscribers soon, and appearing on the usual social channels.

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  • First session: 02:00 GMT, December 5
  • Second session: 15:30 GMT, December 5
  • 60 minutes

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  • 14:00 GMT, December 12
  • 90 minutes

The webinar programme continues in 2025. Watch out for new topics being announced – and tell us what you’d like to see. What’s trending for you? What other partners would you like to see in our programme? What subjects can we cover from a journalist’s or communicator’s point of view? Email IFAJ’s secretary general, Adrian Bell, with ideas, requests and suggestions: adrian.bell@agromavens.com

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