Project Highlights
We showcased our project at the Plants for the Future Interactive Exhibition during SFI Science Week 2024!
The event took place on Tuesday, 12th November at the UCC School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences.
The evening was a great success and demonstrated how plant science can help us address important issues, such as biodiversity loss, food insecurity, climate change, pesticide use and pollution.
Showcasing our posters for our different projects.
Sharing the details of the BLÁTH project with visitors to the Plants for the Future Interactive Exhibition during SFI Science Week 2024!
The interactive displays demonstrated how nature-based solutions, breeding technologies and circular economy approaches could help us solve these issues.
In addition, information was provided about UCC’s Biodiversity Action Plan and the Greenshoots Programme.
Participating projects:
- WeedTraits – Investigating the processes that determine weediness (SFI Frontiers for the Future)
- ResilientCrop – Mining for climate resilience in Irish forage crops (SFI Frontiers for the Future)
- Azbio: sustainable valorisation of agri-food wastewaters (SFI-IRC Pathway Programme)
- ITEN – Irish Tree Explorers Network (SFI Discover)
- IMPRESS: Innovative approaches for marine and freshwater based ingredients to develop sustainable foods and value chains (Horizon Europe)
- StableGrass – Impact of plant diversity on carbon storage and yield stability in semi-natural grasslands (DAFM)
- ARID – Assessing the impact of climate change on clover-pollinator interactions in Irish grasslands (DAFM)
- Duck-Feed – Sustainable Protein from Duckweed (DAFM)
- BLATH – Biodiversity in urban Landscapes – Assessing Trimmed Habitats and wild zones within the UCC campus (UCC Green Campus)
- CacaoWiRe – The science and culture of cacao and its wild relatives
- HUMID – Honing our Understanding of Microbial Diversity in Tropical Peatlands (Crawford Hayes Trust)
- Characterisation of Inositol Polyphosphate Multi Kinases, Potential Targets for the Control of Late Blight? (IRC)
- Inositol Trisphosphate Signalling in Potato Blight: A Pathway to the Elimination of a Plant Destroyer? (SFI Frontiers for the Future)
- UCC Arboretum
- Greenshoots Green Campus Programme at UCC