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SKL Centre for Soybean Reasearch, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Book Publishing - Agrobiotechnology in Perspectives History, Economy, Science and Technology on the Plate
The content of this book comes from a series of agrobiotechnology talks. It compiles the content of 12 talks, while the entire series...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (35) : Bridging the Gap: Sustainable Synergy Between Vertical and Outdoor Farming
Description of the talk: Misconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding vertical farming abound. Many have viewed it as the exclusive...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (34) : Environment and health: Opening an era of environmental discovery with the exposome research paradigm
Description: Variation in health and diseases within the human population is driven by a combination of genetic and environmental...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (33) : Regenerating deserts in Northern China and small-holder farms in Hong Kong
Description: Industrial farming with high inputs of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides have been producing crops at the expense of the...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (32) : Virtual Carpological Herbarium of Fruits and Seeds
The carpological collection is a part of an herbarium, and it mainly consists of the fruits and seeds of plants that cannot be fixed onto...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (31) :The fate of heavy metals in the soil environment and what’s next?
Large areas of agriculture fields in Asia have been contaminated by heavy metals from mining and other human activities. Due to a serious...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (30) : The Versatile Roles of Type III Effectors in Rhizobia-Soybean Symbioses
In this talk, Prof. Xin, Dawei will introduce the progress and the prospect of rhizobial type III underlying soybean-rhizobium...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (29) : Towards a sustainable food future in China: Consumers’ intention and policy implications
Food sustainability is one of the priorities of the global sustainability agenda. China, as a rapidly developing economy, contributes to...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (28) : Assessing health impacts of common environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (8 February 2023)
Both bisphenol A and pesticides are the common environmental estrogen disrupting chemicals widely used in industry and agriculture...
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Agrobiotechnology Talk Series (27) : Earthworms for sustainable agriculture (18 January 2023)
Soil organisms play an important role as primary driving agents of nutrient cycling, soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas...
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