Iain Donnison

Phone01970 823092
Emailisdaber.acuk

Aberystwyth University
Edward Llwyd Building
Penglais
Aberystwyth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Professor Iain Donnison is head of the Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS). He is a plant and environmental scientist with expertise in temperate and tropical grasses. His work focuses on environmental stress, and strategies for adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change. He is co-ordinator of the BBSRC Core Strategic Programme in Resilient Crops, Director of the pan Wales BEACON Biorefining Centre, Topic Lead for Resources in the UKRI Supergen Bioenergy Hub, and leads the UKRI Perennial Biomass Crops for Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrator. He is committed to work with industry and policymakers so that academic research is translated to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits. He was a member of the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) advisory groups for reports on Biomass in a low carbon economy (2018) and Land Use (2020), and is a member of the NFU’s academic advisory group on Net Zero.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

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Novel Miscanthus hybrids: Modelling productivity on marginal land in Europe using dynamics of canopy development determined by light interception
Shepherd, A., Awty‐Carroll, D., Kam, J., Ashman, C., Magenau, E., Martani, E., Kontek, M., Ferrarini, A., Amaducci, S., Davey, C., Jurišić, V., Petrie, GJ., Al Hassan, M., Lamy, I., Lewandowski, I., de Maupeou, E., McCalmont, J., Trindade, L., van der Cruijsen, K., van der Pluijm, P., & 6 othersRowe, R., Lovett, A., Donnison, I., Kiesel, A., Clifton‐Brown, J. & Hastings, A., 13 Mar 2023, In: GCB Bioenergy. 15, 4, p. 444-461 18 p.
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Perennial biomass cropping and use: Shaping the policy ecosystem in European countries
Clifton‐Brown, J., Hastings, A., von Cossel, M., Murphy-Bokern, D., McCalmont, J., Whittaker, J., Alexopoulou, E., Amaducci, S., Andronic, L., Ashman, C., Awty‐Carroll, D., Bhatia, R., Breuer, L., Cosentino, S., Cracroft‐Eley, W., Donnison, I., Elbersen, B., Ferrarini, A., Ford, J., Greef, J., & 20 othersIngram, J., Lewandowski, I., Magenau, E., Mos, M., Petrick, M., Pogrzeba, M., Robson, P., Rowe, R. L., Sandu, A., Schwarz, K-U., Scordia, D., Scurlock, J., Shepherd, A., Thornton, J., Trindade, L. M., Vetter, S., Wagner, M., Wu, PC., Yamada, T. & Kiesel, A., 10 Apr 2023, In: GCB Bioenergy. 15, 5, p. 538-558 21 p.
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Species selection determines carbon allocation and turnover in Miscanthus crops: Implications for biomass production and C sequestration
Briones, M. J. I., Massey, A., Elias, D. M. O., McCalmont, J. P., Farrar, K., Donnison, I. & McNamara, N. P., 20 Aug 2023, In: Science of the Total Environment. 887, 13 p., 164003.
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Expanding the Miscanthus market in the UK: Growers in profile and experience, benefits and drawbacks of the bioenergy crop
von Hellfeld, R., Hastings, A., Kam, J., Rowe, R., Clifton‐Brown, J., Donnison, I. & Shepherd, A., 10 Oct 2022, In: GCB Bioenergy. 14, 11, p. 1205-1218 14 p.
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Potential Co-benefits and trade-offs between improved soil management, climate change mitigation and agri-food productivity
McGuire, R., Williams, P. N., Smith, P., McGrath, S. P., Curry, D., Donnison, I., Emmet, B. & Scollan, N., 01 May 2022, In: Food and Energy Security. 11, 2, 10 p., e352.
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Differential expression of starch and sucrose metabolic genes linked to varying biomass yield in Miscanthus hybrids
De Vega, J. J., Peel, N., Purdy, S. J., Hawkins, S., Donnison, I., Dyer, S. & Farrar, K., 19 Apr 2021, In: Biotechnology for Biofuels. 14, 1, 15 p., 98.
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Draft genome assembly of the biofuel grass crop Miscanthus sacchariflorus
De Vega, J., Donnison, I., Dyer, S. & Farrar, K., 18 Jan 2021, In: F1000Research. 10, 11 p., 29.
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Future of Welsh landscape and Ecological sustainability to achieve UK net zero target
Arshad, N., Fraser, M., Donnison, I. & Hastings, A., 04 Dec 2021.
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Impact of vegetation type and pre-processing on product yields and properties following hydrothermal conversion of conservation biomass
Corton, J., Donnison, I., Ross, A., Lea-Langton, A., Wachendorf, M. & Fraser, M., 31 Mar 2021, In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 137, 9 p., 110462.
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Landscape Decision System through spatial modelling tools to achieve UK net zero target
Arshad, M. N., Donnison, I. & Rowe, R., 20 May 2021.
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Marginal lands: Concept, classification criteria and management
Arshad, N., Donnison, I. & Rowe, R., 2021, Supergen Bioenergy Hub. 36 p.
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