Join us for our Equinox Dinner at the historic Grocers Hall on the evening of 23^rd September.

The event promises to be a memorable celebration as we gather to mark the turning of the seasons, In addition to our Chairman updating you on PLT’s progress we are delighted that Prof Phil Stevenson from the Royal Botanic Garden Kew will join us as our guest speaker.

Phil is the Priority Leader of Trait Diversity and Function, the Science Priority studying plant and fungal traits, to aid conservation, increase resilience to global change, and explore potential uses of plants and fungi for human health and well-being.

Phil is also Head of the Biological Chemistry research group with a focus on the ecological function of plant chemicals, especially those that mediate interactions between plants and insects and the potential to use plants sustainably for enhancing ecosystem services and developing sustainable food systems through agroecology and sustainable crop production.

This supports work on plant chemistry of nectar and pollen and on how this mediates plant-pollinator interactions and pollinator health and behaviour for example through consumption of bioactive nectar metabolites or essential nutrients including pollen lipids.

Phil holds a dual role as Professor of Plant Chemistry at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich.

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