No dia 02/04 a UFPR receberá a visita do Prof. Jacob Weiner do Departamento de Plantas e Ciências Ambientais da University of Copenhagen. O seminário é aberto a estudantes e docentes dos programas de graduação e pós-graduação que tenham interesse na área.

Local: Anfiteatro 10 do Setor de Ciências Biológicas

Data: 02/04/2019

Horário: 15h30

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Evolutionary Agroecology: Applying Evolutionary Theory to Plant Production

Abstract

Evolutionary Agroecology (also called Darwinian Agriculture) is the application of evolutionary theory to improve agricultural yields and/or sustainability. The basic idea is that it is very unlikely that plant breeding or genetic engineering can improve attributes already favored by millions of years of natural selection, but there may be unutilized potential in selecting for attributes that increase total crop yield but reduce plants’ individual fitness. In other words, plant breeding should be based on group, not individual, selection. In this seminar, I present the theoretical evolutionary and agronomic background for this approach, show recent results testing the core hypothesis, and discuss the potential mechanisms and implications for plant breeding.