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...
Consortium Meeting and project review in Cambridge September 18th
The latest CAPITALISE consortium meeting was held in Cambridge in mid-September. The 19 Partners organisations presented their progress, which stimulated much discussion and future planning. It was great to see the collaboration between the consortium members...
Virginie Mengin on the GRC conference sponsored by CAPITALISE
The GRC (Gordon research conference) of CO2 assimilation in Plants from Genome to Biome is a leading conference reaching an international audience and providing participants with a productive and science driven atmosphere. The topic of the 2023 meeting was...
Studying photosynthetic metabolism using a bespoke freeze clamp device
Dive into the world of cutting-edge plant research in CAPITALISE project at University of Essex to see how we study our crops photosynthetic metabolism using a bespoke freeze clamp device. Freezing and quenching leaf samples as quickly as possible is essential for...