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Speaker: Prof. Ronnie Coffman, The First MS Swaminathan Professor-At-Large, TNAU

Time and Date: 03 October, 2024 11:15 am

Talk: ‘Essential Adaptation to Climate Change through Plant Breeding’

In the first M S Swaminathan Centenary Lecture, Ronnie Coffman (Emeritus Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell’s School of Integrative Plant Science) summarized significant advancements in crop improvement over the past two decades, highlighting the crucial role of plant breeding in adapting to climate change. Describing plants as ‘solar collection arrays’ supporting human civilization, he emphasized on increasing the capture efficiency of these elements through plant breeding for improvement of crop productivity. Innovative solutions to key challenges such as climate change, abiotic stress, and pest pressures will be vital in the future. Harnessing the potential of modern genomics, artificial intelligence, international collaborations for improved accessibility to pre-breeding germplasm in developing new climate-adapted plant genotypes is the way forward for plant breeding in the future.

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