Nature-based solutions to climate mitigation are a key feature of climate change planning and the roadmap to net zero in many countries. There is therefore an urgent need to gain a better understanding of how plants and their associated microbiomes will respond to elevated global atmospheric CO2 concentrations and the accompanying changes in weather patterns and threats posed by changing patterns of pathogen and pest invasions. This webinar considers how state of the art technologies are being exploited to understand how the greening of the Earth is changing, our understanding of photosynthetic regulation is increasing and how genotype- environment-phenotype-relationships might be exploited in climate mitigation.

Invited speakers:
• Dr Yude Pan, USDA Forest Service (USA)
• Professor Alexander Ruban, Queen Mary University London (UK)
• Professor Wolfram Weckwerth, University of Vienna (Austria)

This webinar is a taster for the forthcoming Plant Collection on the Biochemical Journal that invites reviews, opinion and original papers related to plant processes and their plasticity and adaptations to climate change, as well as their associated microbial communities that underpin crop and forest resilience to climatic stress.

The webinar was co-chaired by Guest editors of this Biochemical Journal themed collection, Professor Christine Foyer, Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Birmingham (UK), and Professor Ilse Kranner, Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Innsbruck (Austria).