The 2024 Meeting is organized in collaboration with the Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BioNI) project funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and in collaboration with DanSeed / DanSeed symposium 2024. The two meetings take place on 27 and 28 February 2024 at Kobæk Strand Konferencecenter, Skælskør, Denmark - https://kobaek-strand.dk/
Registration for both meetings is done by pressing the registration button in the right-hand menu. You can mix your attendance as you please.
The Cereal Network (Cerealienetværket) is an informal network within the cereal sector, embracing research, breeding, production, processing, industry and trade. The network aims at improving quality and sustainability throughout the entire value chain of cereal grain production. The network bring together researchers, breeders, producers of cereal-based products, food and feed enzymes and suppliers within Danish cereal production for an annual meeting.
The 2024 Meeting will take place on Thuesday February 27 at Kobæk Strand Konferencecenter, Kobækvej 85, DK-4230 Skælskør, http://kobaek-strand.dk. The meeting is co-organized with the DanSeed Symposium 2024 on Wednesday 28 March. A joint dinner and an evening program of shared interest giving short updates on the seed and cereal legislation and commerce (in Danish) link the two meetings.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a serious greenhouse gas, 300x more potent than CO2. Nitrous oxide is emitted for agricultural soils when nitrogen fertilizers are converted by microbial processes in the soil. This occurs when ammonium (NH4+) is nitrified to nitrite (NO2-) and nitrate (NO3-), and when these products in turn are denitrified to the gasses, free nitrogen (N2), nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous oxide. While the three gasses are lost to the atmosphere, nitrate binds poorly to soil particles and may leach to the surrounding environment.
Some species and genotypes of plants can exude compound from their roots to inhibit the first nitrification step in this microbial turn-over of soil nitrogen. This biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) capacity improves the plant uptake of nitrogen and minimize nitrous oxide release.
This is also the case for wheat.
The meeting is open for everybody - please registry at https://events.au.dk/danseedsymposium2024/signup
Moderator: Johannes Ravn Jørgensen, Aarhus University
Introduction
Kristian Kofoed Brandt, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen and Novo Nordisk Foundation
The importance of agricultural N2O emissions, the needs for nitrification inhibition in farmland soils and ways to do it at the farm scale (BNI, NNI and SNI)
Andreas Brændholt, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen
Political agenda, practical experience, and emission goals for Danish plant production
Jens Elbæk, SEGES
An introduction to applied BNI research (“The race is on”)
Kristian Koefoed Brandt, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
14:25 - 14:45 - Coffee break
Moderator: Kristian Kofoed Brandt, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
Diversity of nitrifying microorganisms and rhizosphere scale BNI
Cecile Gubry-Rangin, professor, University of Aberdeen
Diversity of BNI active compounds and their chemical identification
Inge Fomsgaard, professor, Aarhus University
Identification of genetic BNI determinants (wheat; multiple species)
Hans Thordal-Christensen, professor, University of Copenhagen
15:45-16:05 - Coffee break
Moderator: Kristian Kofoed Brandt, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
16:05-16:20:
Development and validation of a BNI screening platform: High-throughput cultivation and root exudate collection from wheat lines
Kenneth Madriz-Ordeñana, University of Copenhagen
16:20-16:35:
Development and validation of a BNI screening platform: Tiered, high-throughput approach for screening of root exudates
Jasmeet Kaur Bhambra, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen
16:35-16:50:
BNI potential in wheat
Janus Asbjørn Schatz-Jakobsen, Project manager, Sejet Plant Breeding
16:50-17:10:
Perspectives on future BNI research and breeding activities
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Chaired by Kristian Kofoed Brandt, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen
The event is followed by the Danseed meeting (seperate registration is required)
For details about the evening programme and DanSeed Symposium 2024, please visit DanSeed.dk.
