Description: Soil organisms play an important role as primary driving agents of nutrient cycling, soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission, as well as enhancing soil physical structure. Recently, the ecosystem functions of soil macro-fauna like earthworms have been recognized as a nature-based solution (NbS) to tackle a range of environmental challenges because they can act as “ecosystem engineers”, being able to directly or indirectly influence the availability of natural resources to other organisms through their feeding, burrowing, and casting activities. This talk will present an overview of the role of earthworms in enhancing soil health and the growth of plant crops, and optimally achieving sustainable agriculture.
The target audience includes international scholars, researchers, agricultural industry as well as the general public.
Organisers:
– Centre for Soybean Research (CSR), State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (SKLA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
– RGC-AoE Center for Genomic Studies on Plant-Environment Interaction for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (AoE), CUHK
– Hong Kong Seed Technology and Education Center (SeedTEC), CUHK
Acknowledgement: Lo Kwee-Seong Foundation
Date: 18 January, 2023
Time:
18:30-20:00 (Hong Kong / Mainland China)
12:30-14:00 (South Africa / Europe Berlin)
05:30-07:00 (US New York / Canada Ottawa)
(1 hour talk and 30 mins Q&A)
Venue:
Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by email 2 days before the talk)
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Law,
Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
Host: Prof Hon Ming Lam,
Professor, School of Life Sciences, and Director of SKLA, AoE and SeedTEC, CUHK
Language: English
Registration deadline: 16 January 2023
Free admission, all are welcome.