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Work interests: Crop Wild Relatives (CWR), plant domestication, crop history, biodiversity, ethnobotany
Affiliation/website: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
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Preferred contact language(s): English, German
Contact: Dr Peter J. Matthews, Project Leader: pjm [at] minpaku [dot] ac [dot] jp
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The taro festivals of Hawaii have been happening for many years.
They are events where local farmers, members of the public, artists, agricultural experts, and many others come together to enjoy the iconic plant of Hawaii, and more than just good food. Taro ("kalo" in the Hawaiian language) has a special status in Hawaii.
The next occasion will be the East Maui Taro Festival on 24th April, 2021. See the details here: https://www.tarofestival.org
The Economic Aroids Workshop will be an 'Associated Meeting' of the XIX International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Shenzen ( see listing here, ST-24 )
Convenors:
Peter J. Matthews (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)
Chunlin Long ( Minzu University of China, Beijing; and Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming)
Date: 24 July, 2017
Time: 11:00 am -13:00 pm
Venue: main conference center.
Abstract
The convenors will present a brief overview of economic aroids (Fam. Araceae) and research on these plants, and then introduce the "Wild Taro Research Project" . We will invite cross-disciplinary collaboration for an exploration of the natural and cultural history of taro ( Colocasia esculenta ), other economic aroids, and their wild relatives.
As a 'roundtable' workshop, all participants will be invited to consider and discuss ways in which historical, ethnobotanical, ecological, taxonomic, and genetic approaches can be integrated in order to (i) learn about crop history, (ii) identify priorities for crop development, and (iii) protect wild crop relatives and their habitats.
Note: Anyone attending IBC and working with Araceae is herewith invited to give a short presentation at this workshop. Please contact: Peter Matthews (researchcooperative at gmail dot com).
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International Botanical Congress (IBC), Shenzen, China, 23.-29. July, 2017
By Research Cooperative, 2017-04-14
PJM (Dr Matthews) will attend IBC 2017 in July, and will present a poster for Session T6-10 Capturing biodiversity for food security (organizer: Robert Henry, University of Queensland, Australia).
The poster title will be: Perception gaps that may explain the status of taro as an “orphan crop”, despite global distribution and value as a starchy root crop and green vegetable.
The date and time for this session are 13:30-15:30 pm, July 28 (Friday), and the talk titles are:
| T6-10-01: | Application of Genomics to Enhanced Utilization of Cereal Diversity |
| Robert Henry (University of Queensland) | |
| T6-10-02: | Genetic Dissection of Starch Biosynthesis Diversity for Grain Quality Improvement in Rice |
| Qiaoquan Liu (College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University) | |
| T6-10-03: | Large-scale plant genomics studies and CNGB’s effort in food nutrition development |
| Shifeng Cheng (BGI-Research) | |
| T6-10-04: | Conservation of Oxalis tuberosa, "oca", in Ecuador: an iconic Andean tuber |
| Hugo Romero-Saltos (Yachay Tech (School of Biological Sciences and Engineering)) | |
| T6-10-05: | Diversity of edible aquatic plants from Thailand |
| Pranee Nangngam (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University) | |
| T6-10-06: | Utilizing pulses diversity for ensuring food and nutritional security in Asia and Africa |
| Rajeev Varshney (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)) | |