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Accessible Education Resources – Coming Soon

Many of us look forward to spring and at SEFARI we are no different. It’s the time our gardens start to come back to life and usually at this time we would also be sharing our knowledge and enthusiasm with families young and old at the Edinburgh Science Festival. We really enjoy developing and running a range of free to access activities hosted at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh during the festival each year.

Diversity in the Mix: The benefits of biodiversity for sustainable crop production

We are currently facing three major global challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss and the development of sustainable food production systems. Ideal solutions to these challenges would be ones that deliver win-wins, addressing at least two of these simultaneously. Our work on understanding the role of biodiversity in crop production systems considers whether such win-wins are possible.

Reviewing Ecological Focus Areas: A Cross Pollination of Ideas

Introduction

Protecting Potatoes - Scotland's Story

Since the emergence of late blight (Phytophthora infestans) in the 1840s this disease has presented a major challenge to the potato industry, with annual losses estimated to be £55 million in the UK.

Mrs Gaynor McKenzie

My current role involves the curation of the Commonwealth Potato Collection, I am the potato glasshouse and germplasm manager. The commonwealth potato collection comprises of around 1524 seed-based accessions of tuber-bearing Solanum accessions representing over 90 different potato species (https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/germinate-cpc/#home).

Gaynor McKenzie

James Hutton Institute

Errol Road

Dundee

Scotland

DD2 5DA

Dr Max Coleman

My current role involves facilitating public engagement with RBGE science in an informal educational context through a variety methods including: events, exhibitions, digital and community outreach.

A focus on food and crop plants has proved to be an effective public engagement hook that leads into topical issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change and making agriculture more sustainable.

Max Coleman

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Arboretum Pl

Edinburgh

EH3 5NZ

Practical Intercropping

‘Plant Teams’ on Lismore - Sharing Knowledge Whatever the Weather!

A visit to the island of Lismore on a midsummer weekend sounded idyllic to a group of researchers from the James Hutton Institute and SRUC.

Kate Lamont

Research interests

Behaviour change
Prevention & management of animal disease
Public health
Rural health & wellbeing
ICT
Web science
eHealth
mHealth
Mental health
Health services
Prevention & self-management
Older people
Social enterprises & volunteering

Kate Lamont

SRUC Epidemiology Research Unit
An Lòchran
Inverness Campus
Inverness IV2 5NA

Dr Petra Boevink

The focus of my research is the cell biology of plant-pathogen interactions, in particular between the notorious oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of the devastating potato late blight, and its hosts. This pathogen manipulates plant defence responses on multiple levels, suggesting complex exchanges of signals between host and pathogen and a variety of effector functions.

Petra Boevink

Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

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