The CAPITALISE project is coming to a close
Last month the final CAPITALISE meeting took place in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Project partners showed their final results and prepared for the reporting period to come. Many thanks to all of those who have contributed to the CAPITALISE newsletter over the...
Poster presentation at Euroseeds Congress
Our CAPITALISE poster, highlighting the benefits of improved photosynthesis to crops was presented at the October 2024 Euroseeds Congress in Copenhagen. Euroseeds is a trade organisation representing the plant breeding and seed industry. The Euroseeds Congress...
A Roadmap for Photosynthesis to Drive Crop Improvement
Our roadmap, Time to Translate, was presented to European Commission officials on the 29th of November to highlight the importance of translating improved photosynthesis traits to European crops The presentation took place in Euroseeds, Brussels at our workshop:...
Translational Photosynthesis Roadmapping workshop
On 4-7th June 2024 the CAPITALISE project and French Groupement de Recherche organised an in-person Translational Photosynthesis Roadmapping workshop at CEA Cadarache, France. The aim of the event was to engage key people involved photosynthesis and crop...
PSI lead the way working on the CAPITALISE project
Dive into the world of cutting-edge plant research in the CAPITALISE project at the PSI Research Center in the Czech Republic to see how we study our crops’ photosynthetic and growth performance under drought stress conditions using high-throughput image-based...
Understanding plant’s photosynthetic machinery at Wageningen
The global demand for agricultural goods is expected to rise by 1.1% year until 2050, making it crucial to ensure long-term food security for the growing population. Enhanced irrigation, fertilization, mechanization, and selective breeding have increased crop...
STEPS- the new state of the art plant growth facility at Essex University
Our CAPITALISE partner, the University of Essex, opened a new cutting-edge growth facility in May to support research on increasing plant productivity and providing sustainable crop production in the face of climate change. The Smart Technology Experimental Plant...
CAPITALISE consortium meeting at IPK Gatersleben
The penultimate CAPITALISE meeting was held at IPK in Gaterleben in March this year. CAPITALISE partners presented their latest progress as the project enters its last year. There were many interesting discussions on how best to enhance the translation of...
Phenotyping the Magic Maize Population
Take the time to appreciate all the hard work that is goes in to improving crops. Johannes Kromdijk’s group at Cambridge University show how they carry out their extensive phenotyping for photosynthetic traits in the MAGIC Maize population in this video. Video...
Photosynthesis as a tool in global change research.
W. Thomas, SBR, CNRS-Sorbonne Université Understanding the effects of global warming, harvesting and land-use changes for local carbon fluxes is crucial for managing global emission scenarios. The flows of carbon between different organisms, their metabolic fluxes...