Proposed Symposium Title: PLANT RESPONSES TO STRESSES AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Abstract: The symposium would deal with research covering all aspects of how plants respond to stresses and climate change, at all levels of scale. Contributions from basic to applied research are welcome, as long as they are based on molecular, physiological, morphological, (ultra)structural, cellular, histo-anatomical, morphogenetic, organismic, community and ecological aspects. Stress induced by exposure to xenochemicals and toxins, infection or injury, as well as phyto/bioremediation aspects, are also positively considered as core topics.
Speaker 1: Luigi Sanita' di Toppi
Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy
luigi.sanita@unipi.it
Functional responses to heavy metals in plants
Speaker 2: Salma Balazadeh
Science Instituut Biologie Leiden, IBL Plant Sciences, Leiden, The Netherlands
s.balazadeh@biology.leidenuniv.nl
Balancing growth and abiotic stress tolerance in plants - genomic and biotechnological approaches
Speaker 3: Cecilia Brunetti
CNR-IPSP, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection
50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
The widespread Holm oak dieback in Mediterranean forests: an approach to investigate the causes at plant and ecosystem level
cecilia.brunetti@ipsp.cnr.it
Topics (Up to three): Ecophysiology
Topic 2: Global Change Ecology
Topic 3: Agroforestry Systems
Justification: The Symposium is aimed at highlighting highly topical areas, such as the response of plants to stress factors, environmental pollution (including microplastics and nanoparticles) and global change. We believe that these areas can further contribute to culturally complete the Congress.
