Phenotyping the Magic Maize Population
Take the time to appreciate all the hard work that is goes in to improving crops. Johannes Kromdijk’s group at Cambridge University show how they carry out their extensive phenotyping for photosynthetic traits in the MAGIC Maize population in this video. Video...
Photosynthesis as a tool in global change research.
W. Thomas, SBR, CNRS-Sorbonne Université Understanding the effects of global warming, harvesting and land-use changes for local carbon fluxes is crucial for managing global emission scenarios. The flows of carbon between different organisms, their metabolic fluxes...
Consortium Meeting and project review in Cambridge September 18th
The latest CAPITALISE consortium meeting was held in Cambridge in mid-September. The 19 Partners organisations presented their progress, which stimulated much discussion and future planning. It was great to see the collaboration between the consortium members...
Virginie Mengin on the GRC conference sponsored by CAPITALISE
The GRC (Gordon research conference) of CO2 assimilation in Plants from Genome to Biome is a leading conference reaching an international audience and providing participants with a productive and science driven atmosphere. The topic of the 2023 meeting was...
Studying photosynthetic metabolism using a bespoke freeze clamp device
Dive into the world of cutting-edge plant research in CAPITALISE project at University of Essex to see how we study our crops photosynthetic metabolism using a bespoke freeze clamp device. Freezing and quenching leaf samples as quickly as possible is essential for...
CAPITALISE Stakeholder Workshop
The first of our in person CAPITALISE Expert Stakeholder Workshops took place in Brussels in May 2023 as part of future Research Road mapping activities of the CAPITALISE project. Taking part were crop breeders, growers, consumer representatives, as well as...
Survey Launched: Breeders and Growers Tell Us What Research You Need
The CAPITALISE project has launched a Stakeholder Survey aimed at crop breeders and growers. We are super keen to catch as many views from across Europe as possible to get a good understanding of how public funding can be best allocated to meet industry needs. The...
SSSA and ARARI are capitalising on links to Africa
SSSA have been working in Ethiopia for 12 years and they are now collaborating with ARARI as partners in CAPITALISE. The initial connections came from SSSA’s innovative PhD programme in agrobiodiversity. This programme targets students from emerging countries and...
IPK Phenosphere
IPK’s PhenoSphere is a world-wide unique plant cultivation facility and is now fully operational. On an area of 1000 m² in four individual compartments, plants grow under strictly controlled, dynamic, field-like environmental conditions (light, air...
The CropBooster Roadmap
CropBooster-P and CAPITALISE can be considered “sister projects” as both resulted from discussions early 2016 between representatives from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and the European Commission. These discussions centered around the question how the...