Why should every plant biologist care about biological timing? Virtually all aspects of plant life are shaped by temporal regulation across many scales, including the cycles of day and night, and the seasons of the year. This Symposium brings together diverse topics in biological timing including environmental signalling, evolution, field biology, modelling, epigenomics, organismal interactions, and how circadian clocks and seasonal timing can be leveraged for crop breeding.
This Symposium will emphasise underlying principles and concepts that characterise these processes, whilst considering a wide range of species and approaches. There are numerous unanswered questions, such as how daily and seasonal timing shapes plant function in natural conditions, ecological processes, microbiome interactions, and the evolution of photoperiodism and circadian clocks. By combining laboratory and field research with molecular and ecological approaches, this multidisciplinary Symposium will cut across all sections of the New Phytologist readership, fostering creative new synergies.
Organising committee:
Veronica Arana, CONICET, Argentina
Ant Dodd, John Innes Centre, UK
Josh Gendron, Yale, USA
Carlos Hotta, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nathalie Verbruggen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
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