Speakers
Description
Plants now lie at the core of strategies aimed at addressing major global challenges, from ensuring food security and capturing atmospheric carbon to preserving soil quality and halting desertification. At the same time, plant production systems are becoming more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of extreme events. Meeting such challenges is not possible without a fundamental understanding of the biological and physical mechanisms that regulate plant growth and development, as these processes determine how plants respond to environmental constraints and how effectively they can be optimized for future agricultural and ecological demands.
The objective of this symposium is to showcase recent theories and tools to describe the physics of plant growth, from single cells to the development of complex shapes, and the interactions between plants and their environment.
