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SUMMARY:Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields\, on Farms\, wit
 h Farmers - Roger Sylvester-Bradley\, ADAS
DTSTART:20151126T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Progress towards sustainable crop productivity depends on effe
 ctive exchange of knowledge and data between industry and science. ADAS’
 s crop physiology group is working to develop a common set of concepts\, m
 etrics and targets which enables analysis of crop productivity and sustain
 ability by both the farming and research communities. We call this ‘agro
 nŏmics’. These two communities have habitually worked at different scal
 es\, their analyses of performance have differed\, and any extrapolation b
 etween small (science) and large (industry) scales has entailed massive 
 ‘leaps of faith’.  However\, emerging technologies for on-farm instrum
 entation and automation now offer hope of undertaking quantitative crop re
 search – phenotyping – at the scales of field and farm\, and also (cri
 tically) of providing a new understanding of spatially variable factors\, 
 particularly soil. The challenges are now to develop (i) targeted farm net
 works\, (ii) even more precise farm machinery\, (iii) new spatially-refere
 nced statistical techniques\, and (iv) proof of the practical value of con
 cepts such as ‘resource capture’. Recently initiated farm networks suc
 h as ‘YEN’ and ‘LearN’ are in the vanguard of these ‘agronŏmic
 ’ developments.  
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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