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Food Security in the Asia-Pacific:
Can we have our fuel and eat it ?II
Robert J Henry Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
RESEARCH FRONTIERS
Meeting the global challenge
Innovations to feed, fuel & heal a growing & aging population in an environmentally sustainable way
UQ Research frontiers
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Food Security
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Africa
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Australia-Asia
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
World population growth
Population growth
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Food consumption per person
One billion starving Two billion obese
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Progress in crop production
Ray et al. (2013) PLOS One 8: ee66428
Advances in DNA Technology
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Global importance of Australian Rice Sotowa M, Ootsuka K, Kobayashi Y, Hao Y, Tanaka K, Ichitani K, Flowers JM, Purugganan MD, Nakamura I, Sato Y-I, Sato T, Crayn D, Simon B, Waters DLE, Henry RJ and Ishikawa R (2013) Molecular relationships between Australian annual wild rice, Oryza meridionalis, and two related perennial forms. Rice
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Asian and Australian rice
Species A
Species B
Asian
Australian
Oryza meridionalis
Oryza australiensis
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Aleurone
Endosperm
Pericarp
Embryo
Protein, Starch
Minerals, Vitamins Dietary Fibre Antioxidants
Processed Fibre Bioactives
Next Generation Wheat Initiative
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Chapatti quality
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Protein and loaf volume Test baking Glen Fox and Terry Taylor
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Starches and Human Health
Wheat relative A and B type Granules A: <10µM B: 10-50µM
Rice like Granules Rigid dodecahedrons 2-5µM Compound granules
Sorghum granules 10-30µM Spherical to non-uniform polyhedral
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Koepke T, Schaeffer S, Harper A, Dicenta F, Henry RJ, Moller BL, Sanchez-Perez R, Dhingra A (2013) Comparative Genomics Analysis in Prunoideae to Identify Biologically Relevant Polymorphisms. Plant Biotechnology Journal 11, 883-893.
Whole genome comparative DNA analysis for crop improvement
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Why Coffee? Coffee is one the most traded commodities worldwide and is the second commodity exported by developing countries. More than 75 million families, almost exclusively in Southern countries, rely on coffee production. Out of the more than 100 Coffea species, only 2 are widely cultivated, C. arabica (75% of the market) and C. canephora (25%). Improvement is still necessary to better tolerate biotic (fungi, bacteria, nematodes, insects…) and abiotic (drought) stresses.
XIX PAG 2011
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Coffee Consortium
Nestlé R&D: Dominique Crouzillat Michel Rigoreau
UMR DIADE: Alexandre de Kochko Romain Guyot Christine Tranchant Valérie Poncet Perla Hamon Serge Hamon Claudine Campa Stéphane Dussert Thierry Joët
UMR RPB: Philippe Lashermes Benoît Bertrand Marie-Christine Combes François Anthony
UMR AGAP: Xavier Argout Thierry Leroy
GENOSCOPE: Patrick Wincker
Università di Trieste: Giorgio Graziosi Alberto Pallavicini ENEA: Giovanni Giuliano Gaetano Perrotta
EMBRAPA: Alan C. Andrade
University at Buffalo: Victor Albert University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Ray Ming Hawaii Agriculture Research Center: Chifumi Nagai Ming-Li Wang University of Arizona: Steve Rounsley
University of Queensland: Robert Henry
University of Ottawa: David SANKOFF
ICCRI: Priyono
Coffee Bord of India: Jayarama
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Wild coffee species
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Energy security
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Declining Australian oil production
Australian production
Imported
Oil
cons
umpt
ion
2010 2020
Source: ABARE
$30 Billion
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Bioenergy Economics Climate change Security of energy supply
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
US and Australian Navy
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Biofuel from non-food plants
Biomass (cellulose)
Sugars
Pre- treatment Enzyme
Ethanol Aviation Fuel Biodiesel
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Sugarcane
Souza GM, Berges H, Bocs S, Casu R, D’Hont A, Ferreira JE, Henry R, Ming R Potier B, Van Sluys MA, Vincentz M and Paterson AH (2011) The sugarcane genome challenges: Strategies for sequencing a highly complex genome. Tropical Plant Biology 4: 145-156.
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) in sugarcane leaves
McQualter et al UQ
Biodegradable plastics from plants
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Eucalypts
Shepherd M, Bartle, J, Lee DJ, Brawner J, Bush D, Turnbull P, Macdonell P, Brown TR, Simmons B and Henry R (2011) Eucalypts as a biofuel feedstock. Biofuels 2: 639-657.
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Domestication of New Crops
Henry RJ (2011) Next generation sequencing for understanding and accelerating crop domestication. Briefings in Functional Genomics 11: 51-56.
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Domestication of new grains for food
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Domes&ca&on of new species for bioenergy
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Conflict between human and natural selection
Fragrance
Bradbury LME, Gillies SA, Brushett D, Waters DLE, Henry RJ (2008) Inactivation of an aminoaldehyde dehydrogenase is responsible for fragrance in rice. Plant Molecular Biology 68: 439-449.
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Impact of climate change on biodiversity and agriculture
Cronin, JK, Bundock, PC, Henry, RJ and Nevo, E (2007) Adaptive Climatic Molecular Evolution in Wild Barley at the Isa Defense Locus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 104: 2773-2778.
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Adaptation to Climate Collection sites from sea level to mountain tops
Fitzgerald TL, Shapter FM, McDonald S, Waters DLE, Chivers IH, Drenth A, Nevo E and Henry RJ (2011) Genome diversity in wild grasses under environmental stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 108, 21139-21144.
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Website
http://www.climatechangegenomics.org/index.php
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Improved Genetics for Food and Energy
Sexton TR, Henry RJ, Harwood CE, Thomas DS, McManus LJ, Raymond C, Henson M and Shepherd M (2012) Pectin methylesterase genes influence solid wood properties of Eucalyptus pilularis. Plant Physiology 158: 531-541
Kharabian-Masouleh A, Waters DLE, Reinke RF, Ward R, Henry RJ (2012) SNP in starch biosynthesis genes associated with nutritional and functional properties of rice. Scientific Reports 2, 557
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New Land for Agriculture
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Rainfall to Support Agriculture
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
World Population Increasing in the Tropics
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
QS Ranking of Universities Field of Agriculture and Forestry 2013
World Rank Country Rank 1 Davis 1 Wageningen 4 Cornell 5 Wisconsin 5 Texas A&M 6 Purdue 7 University of Queensland 1 29 The University of Adelaide 2 30 The Australian National University 3 42 University of Melbourne 4 49 The University of Sydney 5
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Food, Fibre, Energy & Biomaterials
Science for Sustainable Agriculture and Food
QAAFI is funded by the University of Queensland and the Queensland Government