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Sustainable Crop Nutrition: AAB President’s Meeting 2026

November 17 - November 18

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17 November 2026 – 18 November 2026

The Guildhall York

Inorganic nutrients that are critical for crop growth, health and productivity must be absorbed from the soil and distributed around the plant. Research over past few decades has established the fundamental mechanisms underpinning inorganic nutrient transport.

However, plant-soil interactions and regulatory processes that enable efficient absorption and distribution are only just becoming understood. This meeting will address issues of crop nutrition from a global sustainability perspective, ranging from soil health and fertilizer use to distribution of minerals that are essential for human nutrition to edible parts of plants.

The AAB President’s Meeting is a biennial celebration of the research interests of the outgoing AAB President. We are delighted to organise this event on behalf of Professor Dale Sanders FRS.


Invited Speakers

We are delighted to confirm these invited speakers:

Stephanie Swarbreck (Niab): Uptake of nutrients: Wheat Nitrogen Requirements (Title tbc)

Ute Kraemer (University of Bochum): Distribution of nutrients within crops (Title tbc)

Tim Mauchline (Rothamsted Research): Impact of structure and function of crop root microbiomes on nutrient cycling


We encourage abstract submissions in the following themes, although this is not an exhaustive list.

– Soil-plant interactions

– Fertilizers and the environment

– Nutrient distribution within the plant

– Improving nutritional quality

– Technological advances for analysing crop-nutrient interactions

SUBMIT an ABSTRACT

Details

Organiser

  • Geraint Parry
  • Email geraint@aab.org.uk

Venue

  • Guildhall, York