Dr Charlie Messina Keynote -TropAg 2025

Описание: Plenary Presentation
Potential for Sustainable Growth

Dr Charlie Messina is a professor of predictive breeding in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the university, Professor Messina had a long and distinguished career in industry. While at Corteva, he made critical contributions to the development of drought tolerant maize hybrids, now grown commercially in North and South America, the design of nitrogen management decision support systems used by the industry in North America and led the initiative on circular agriculture.

Dr Messina works with breeders to improve the nutritional value of Florida produce and to reimagine agriculture as a solution to climate change. He also specialises in developing AI for plant breeding, which he believes will enable society to harmonize crop improvement efforts for regenerative agricultural systems that improve human health, nutrient security, and adaptation to climate change. He is also invested in training the leaders of tomorrow. His program at the University of Florida focuses on developing prediction methods for agriculture and horticulture, with a strong emphasis on genome to phenome modelling for prediction of properties of complex traits, the improvement of crop adaptation to current and future climates and the enablement of circularity in horticulture.