Title：
The future for food may be in our past: the importance of plants in our diets
Lecturer：
Cathie Martin, Professor, John Innes Centre & University of East Anglia
Time：
April 2th, 9:00
Venue:
A641, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus
Education:
Doctor, University of Cambridge
Research Focus:
She is particularly interested in biofortification and using plant metabolic engineering to enhance foods nutritionally. Her work has been undertaken in tomatoes, enriching their nutrient content with, for example, resveratrol and anthocyanin.She has also been involved in developing genetic screens to identify crops which lack toxins that cause nutritional diseases such as konzo and neurolathyrism