Dominique Bergmann: Learning from the past and anticipating the future in stomatal development
Stomata provide a framework to study the fundamental processes of plants at different organizational levels, from molecules and cells to whole plants and ecosystems. And across vast temporal scales, from milliseconds to millennia. Our lab focuses on the molecules and the mechanisms that make and pattern stomata, but this work is enriched by collaborations: with ecophysiologists, who used tools derived from the molecular-scale studies to improve organismal-scale models for photosynthetic activity; with evolutionary biologists, who, taking advantage of stomatal preservation and sequencing of historic DNA, have been able to track how stomatal genes and developmental patterns change, and how this might link to climate change in the Anthropocene. In this talk, I will highlight open questions and potential places of synergy for our community to explore in the pursuit of an integrated understanding of stomatal biology.
Belinda Medlyn: Stomata and global change
Belinda Medlyn presents her lecture on 'Stomata and global change' at the 46th New Phytologist Symposium.