UCC Plants for Future event (Part of UCC Science week)

10 Dec 2025

The Resilient Crop team ehxibits the project at the Plants for Future event

On Tuesday, 12th November ResilientCrop PhD Student Grace Hurley and Post Doc Researcher Catherine Tucker Née Gough exhibited our project at the Plants for the Future Science Week event held in the UCC School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences department. 

The SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) Science Week is a week-long event in Ireland each November, celebrating science in our everyday lives. 

ResilientCrop showcased our project to the public at the Plants for the Future Science week exhibition event held at UCC. 

ResilientCrop was one of several projects at this event demonstrating how plant science can us help address important issues, such as biodiversity loss, food insecurity, climate change, pesticide use and pollution. 

Science week is a yearly event so join us next year!  

UCC plant science 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 on 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