Plant Cell Webinar: Crop Breeding for Climate Resilience

In many regions of the world, climate change is leading to increased exposure to abiotic stresses for plants as well as humans and other animals. The most obvious effects are warmer temperatures, more frequent episodes of extreme heat, increased drought conditions, and desertification, and in some regions, more frequent and extreme storms and flooding. The January 2023 Focus Issue of The Plant Cell spotlights research focusing on the biology of plant response to abiotic stresses as well as more applied research aimed at mitigating the negative effects of climate change.
You can find this issue here https://academic.oup.com/plcell/issue...

Focus Issue editors Nancy Eckardt, Sean Cutler, Thomas Juenger, Amy Marshall-Colon, Michael Udvardi, and Paul Verslues organized two webinars to celebrate this topic. This second webinar features speakers Jesse Lasky, Damaris Odeny, and Andrew Bowerman, who shared findings from their work appearing in this focus issue. The webinar is hosted by Plant Cell Features Editor Nancy Eckardt and moderated by Assistant Features Editor Kutubuddin Molla.

For more information, please see the articles being highlighted.

Genotype–environment associations to reveal the molecular basis of environmental adaptation https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac267

Climate change challenges, plant science solutions. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac303

Potential abiotic stress targets for modern genetic manipulation. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac327