Annual LegSA meeting 2013. The date has been set for the next annual network meeting: it will be held at SLU in Skara on 21 March 2013. More information.
The potential contributions of legumes to future food security and the mitigation of climate change. This is hte title of the lecture that Dr Mark Peoples, Deputy director at CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia, will give at the time of his installement as doctor of honor at SLU. He will give the lecture in Alnarp (Aulan) Thursday 4th October at 10.00 and in Ultuna (Loftet) Friday 5th October at 14.00. More information.
LegSA to be presented at the day about Future Agricuture, Ultuna, 17 October. Future Agriculture (Framtidens lantbruk), an interdisciplinary research platform at SLU, organizes a one-day conference on the subject "Lantbruket är vad du äter", 17 October 2012 at SLU in Ultuna. The program contains a session about legumes, including a presentation of LegSA and a discussion about bottlenecks that need to be overcome in order to increase the use of legumes for human consumption. The conference is held in Swedish. Program and registration.
LegSA workshop in Alnarp, 17 July 2012. Eighteen scientists and students took part in discussions and presentations on topics ranging from forage and grain yield stability and pathogen pressure in legumes, crop diversification by using rotations or cultivar and species mixtures, nitrogen fixation, nitrogen dynamics and losses, legumes contribution to adaptability and mitigation of climate change, rhizobia inoculation strategies, to nutritional and health quality aspects of legumes as food and feed sources. Read the documentation from the workshop here.
A report from the 17th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation (Fremantle, Australia, November 2011) has been written by Janet Sprent and published in New Phytologist (2012), vol 194, pp 318-320.
Review paper from LegSA members now available online:
ES Jensen, MB Peoples, RM Boddey, PM Gresshoff, H Hauggaard-Nielsen, BJR Alves and MJ Morrison. Legumes for mitigation of climate change and the provision of feedstock for biofuels and biorefineries. Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
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