Collegium Helveticum
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Workshop

Rise of Atmospheric Drought
Integrating Across Scales and Disciplines to Boost Plant Resilience

This workshop seeks to bring together prominent experts to identify ways to integrate knowledge across scales and disciplines to improve plant adaptation towards drought. The speakers will represent a range of key disciplines, including molecular biology, crop physiology, plant breeding, plant ecology, soil physics and climate science. The main focus of this workshop is on the effects of global atmospheric drying, a phenomenon that has major implications on plant productivity. The effects of rising atmospheric drying at different organizational scales, from the gene to the landscape will be covered by topical presentations followed by open and long-form discussions. These will attempt to identify critical knowledge gaps and potential avenues to improve plant resilience in agricultural and ecological contexts, in order to ensure sustainable food systems and ecosystems.

Program

08:50

Opening and welcome remarks

Walid Sadok & Andrea Carminati

09:00

Direct and Indirect Drought Effects on Forest Dynamics And Functioning

Andreas Rigling

09:30

Effects of Soil Drought and VPD on Grasslands and Forests
–What We Learned From the Swiss FluxNet

Liliana Scapucci

10:00

Coffee break

10:30

Traits Mediating Vpd Effects on Crop Yields

Walid Sadok

11:00

Starch Metabolism in Stomatal Guard Cells

Diana Santelia

11:30

Standing lunch & student poster session

with students of the course Soil Plant Water Relations

13:00

Potential Phenotyping Methods To Improve Droughttolerance of Swiss Wheat

Andreas Hund & Achim Walter

14:00

Beech Trees in Central Valais Rely on Water Resources From Very Deep Soil Layers

Lorenz Walthert

14:30

Soil Water Fluxes in Forest Ecosystems: Briding Scales
Through Isotope Enabled Modelling

Katrin Meusburger & Fabian Bernhard

15:00

Coffee break

15:30

Global Influence of Soil Texture On Ecosystem Water Limitation

Fabian WankmĂĽller

16:00

Stable Isotopes as Tools To Assess Tree Functioning

Arthur Gessler

16:30

Summary and Outlook

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