Plant
The Session information is still subject to change.
P1 - Accelerating progress in plant science via AI approaches.
Johannes Kromdijk
Zoran Nikoloski
Session Description
The advent of high throughput phenotypic platforms, powerful remote sensing systems, and versatile hand-held devices now routinely applied in plant sciences has resulted in a plethora of multi-view, multi-modal heterogenous data sets. While mining of these data have already generated mechanistic insights in key biochemical processes driving plant development, growth, and reproduction as well as data-driven approaches important for breeding and biotechnological data, we argue that there is an untapped potential for usage of AI that can further accelerate progress in plant sciences. The session topic will cover recent advances in hybrid modeling that combines newest advances in AI with the existing knowledge of molecular mechanisms, represented in a form of networks, and will illustrate how these developments have contributed to innovations in breeding and plant biotechnology as well as generation of new knowledge in plant molecular and cell biology.
P2 - Poisonous Plants
Prof. Ros Gleadow
Prof. Elizabeth Jakobsen Neilson
Session Description
This session will bring together plant scientists studying the production and regulation of toxic natural products. The focus is on plants that are poisonous to other animals, including humans. Climate change may result in higher toxicity of plants. This will have consequences for natural ecosystems and to the nutritional value of food. There is also a need to examine the need for detoxification or reducing bitterness of emerging foods/crops - legumes, quinoa etc. and whether this is impacted by global challenges. It will also be of interest to animal scientists and molecular biologists.
P3 - PEPG - Bridging the gap: connecting photosynthesis research from controlled environments to the field
Dr. Liana Acevedo-Siaca
Session Description
Bridging the gap: connecting photosynthesis research from controlled environments to the field
P4 - Cytoplasmic Genetics: From shaping plant traits to driving speciation
Session Description
Chloroplasts and mitochondria are bioenergetic organelles hosting key cellular processes including photosynthesis and respiration. One common feature of these organelles is that they both contain their own genetic material known as cytoplasmic genomes.
In this session, we will explore the significance of cytoplasmic genetics, highlighting its influence on:
- Plant physiology and traits
- Cytonuclear and environmental interactions
- Speciation and evolution
- Breeding and agricultural innovation
Overall, this session serves to advance our understanding of how these ancient endosymbionts DNA shape modern-day plants.
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P5 - From the Micro to the Macro: Fine Tuning Stomata to Maximise Global Crop Resilience
Session Description
Stomata are microscopic gatekeepers that regulate plant gas exchange with the environment. By adjusting pore area in response to a multitude of stimuli, stomata enable vast and rapid decision-making capacity, which helps optimise plant growth and resilience. Over longer durations, plants adjust stomatal size and/or density to adapt to their environment. This session will have a broad scope, combining molecular-level stomatal biology and crop physiology, with associated studies incorporating crop phenotyping, modelling and remote sensing. Conceptual stomatal research in non-crop and model species is welcomed, with the overarching theme of discussions to focus on developing climate-resilient crops for future agriculture.
P7 - Plant Phenomics : beyond the platforms (alternative title : Plant phenomics for impact)
Session Description
Sophisticated high throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) platforms are now common in many institutions. In parallel, field phenotyping is rapidly developing based on ground level up to satellite imaging. A blooming landscape of companies are proposing a variety of high TRL solutions. Several national and pan-national infrastructures are in place to facilitate access to high-tech platforms and promote joint developments. In parallel, the demand for HTPP is huge: forward or reverse genetics, breeding, agroecology, biostimulation and biocontrol etc. In order to keep developments in pace with demand and effectively address burning societal and environmental challenges, it is essential that the communities discuss potentialities, limits, complementarities and avenues of research for both instrumented platforms and field phenotyping. This is the topic of the session.
P8 - Gravitropism and plant architecture
Session Description
P9 - Plant engineering strategies for achieving sustainability goals: From models to lab to field
Dr Megan Leigh Matthews
Carl R. Woese
Session Description
Engineering plants is a critical avenue being explored to address several key global challenges, including food security, environmental sustainability and climate resilience of agricultural systems, carbon capture and storage, nutritional enhancement, and others. This session will focus on how plants are being or could be engineered to address these global challenges as well as assess expected impacts if implemented at a large scale. Experimental (including lab, greenhouse, and field experiments), modeling, and other computational studies are all of interest and studies that integrate two or more of these approaches are particularly encouraged.
P9 - Plant Biotechnology for Sustainable Living
Session Description
The role of plant biotechnology in delivering solutions to the problems that confront the planet.
