Seminar: Dr. Jana Kholová

When	Oct 10, 2023 from 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM
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From research to impact; Highlights and pitfalls of current efforts to improve agri-systems for sustainable food production in semi-arid tropics.

Dr. Jana Kholová

(GEMS, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)

Attention! The talk will be held in "Zoologická posluchárna" room B7, Viničná 7.

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Jana Kholová obtained her Ph.D. at Fac. Sci., supervised by Dr. Marie Kočová and is a leader of GEMS group of ICRISAT.

In line with global Sustainable Development Goals, Jana Kholová, with the GEMS team and network of partners, contributes to crop improvement efforts in order to enhance the agricultural production quantities and qualities in semi-arid agro-ecological production systems (South Asia, West, and Central Africa). She is responsible for integrating the knowledge of plant biological functionalities through high-throughput phenotyping and modelling tools into the inter-disciplinary crop improvement pipelines. Apart from application-oriented research, the GEMS team (www.gems.icrisat.org) conducts basic research on various aspects of plant biology underlying crop production quantity and quality improvement in collaboration with top-notch teams worldwide, pushing the limits of current knowledge further.

Her current responsibility lies in delivering upon the objectives of several large research initiatives (e.g. US-AID, Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation) and multiple medium to small national and international
projects (https://gems.icrisat.org/projects/). She is responsible for the development of tools, technologies, and protocols to capture the key plant processes useful in crop improvement and simultaneously reflect these into crop model functions to assess their potential value in target production systems with high geospatial precision. Here, we work towards the quantitative characterization of crop production agro-ecologies to target agricultural technologies to fit the
ethno-socio-bio-geo-physical situation of production regions under current and future environmental challenges.

GEMS stronghold dwells in interdisciplinary, integrated research, effective & efficient teamwork, strategic collaboration, exploration, and development of new research areas and innovation.