Speakers:
Dr Giles Oldroyd, Plant biologist, John Innes Centre
Eric Ober, Crop Physiologist, Broom’s Barn Research Station
Prof David Powlson, Climate Change And Carbon Cycling Research Group, Rothampstead Research
The Science Media Centre invited five of Europe’s leading agricultural scientists to brief the media about how farming can be made into a tool to mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change and how plant science is being developed to ensure that our crops (and those of the developing world) can adapt to a changing climate.