This is a broad, discipline-spanning symposium to examine the nitrogen crisis, its severity and how we measure and monitor it. Innovations to alleviate the nitrogen crisis will be explored, from changing agricultural practice, legume breeding, nodulation of cereals, cereal nitrogen use efficiency, through to engineering solutions such as expressing nitrogenase in mitochondria, synthetic symbioses and exploiting natural endophytes. How these relate to social and regulatory aspects of changing agricultural practice in both developing and well-developed countries will be considered.
This meeting follows a BBSRC-NSF meeting of scientists from the UK and USA, who are working on aspects of the nitrogen crisis.
The meeting will be preceded by a networking reception to be held at Somerville College, Oxford from 7pm on 17 September 2015.
This meeting follows a BBSRC-NSF meeting of scientists from the UK and USA, who are working on aspects of the nitrogen crisis.
The meeting will be preceded by a networking reception to be held at Somerville College, Oxford from 7pm on 17 September 2015.
