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 remarksWalid Sadok & Andrea Carminati |
| 09:00 |
Direct and Indirect Drought Effects on Forest Dynamics And FunctioningAndreas Rigling |
| 09:30 |
Effects of Soil Drought and VPD on Grasslands and Forests |
| 10:00 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30 |
Traits Mediating Vpd Effects on Crop YieldsWalid Sadok |
| 11:00 |
Starch Metabolism in Stomatal Guard CellsDiana Santelia |
| 11:30 |
Standing lunch & student poster sessionwith students of the course Soil Plant Water Relations |
| 13:00 |
Potential Phenotyping Methods To Improve Droughttolerance of Swiss WheatAndreas Hund & Achim Walter |
| 14:00 |
Beech Trees in Central Valais Rely on Water Resources From Very Deep Soil LayersLorenz Walthert |
| 14:30 |
Soil Water Fluxes in Forest Ecosystems: Briding Scales |
| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
Global Influence of Soil Texture On Ecosystem Water LimitationFabian Wankmüller |
| 16:00 |
Stable Isotopes as Tools To Assess Tree FunctioningArthur Gessler |
| 16:30 |
Summary and Outlook |
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