CAPITALISE consortium meeting success
Twenty six months from project launch, the CAPITIALISE consortium were finally successul in holding an in person meeting at La Ciotat in France. Presentations were made by experienced research leaders, post-docs and PhD students. There was lively discussion on our...
SSSA news on mapping QTL of traits related to photosynthesis efficiency
The team of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna is finalizing and testing the analytics pipeline for mapping QTL. The idea behind this pipeline is to streamline and standardize QTL mapping within CAPITALISE. The overall performance of the procedure was recently assessed by...
Training workshop 2 recording available
We are proud to announce our next online training workshop on 'Forward genetics approaches' will be held on Wednesday 27th April, starting at 10am CEST, and is now available to view. For the full program and recording click...
Investigating social acceptance of modern breeding techniques
Researchers Paul Nales and Arnout Fischer at Wageningen University have conducted 6 focus groups to identify consumer perceptions towards multiple breeding techniques ranging from natural breeding towards advanced techniques such as CRISPR-CAS. The focus groups...
How does CAPITALISE deal with BIG DATA?
CAPITALISE are adopting open data approachesDuring the first reporting period, IPK, SSSA, and UP, in collaborations with the rest of the consortium, contributed to developing a research data management plan (RDMP) that provides a common framework for storing,...
Phenotyping update
To identify the natural variation of the Most Valuable Players (MoVaPs) for photosynthetic improvement, partners have been carrying out high throughput phenotyping for a range of MOVAP traits whilst developing new equipment to do this. New devices for Chlorophyll...
CAPITALISE partners establish diverse Germplasm collections
Diverse innovative germplasm collections for maize, tomato and barley have been carefully selected by CAPITALISE partners. These include crop varieties, landraces, and crop wild relatives, and are derived from materials already available to CAPITALISE partners as...
The importance of agrobiodiversity conservation for future farming
Coinciding with the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit taking place in Rome 26–28 July 2021 CAPITALISE experts from SSSA introduce the importance of agrobiodiversity to food systems. Biodiversity is the diversity of life on earth, including plants, animals,...
Open Positions
1 PHD POSITION IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AT VU AMSTERDAMPosition 1: Understanding the molecular basis of photoprotection in plants This position is now filled Position 2: Increasing photosynthetic efficiency tuning the absorption properties of the plantsREQUIREMENTS•...
Presenting the Photosynthesis roadmap to 2030
To support the CAPITALISE science programme a targeted stakeholder consultation and road mapping exercise is planned. This will gather a broad range of expert opinion and learn from other projects, industry experience, grower needs and international...