Unravelling high CO2-induced changes in stomatal development

Informacje na temat projektu

HIGHCODE

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 101106048

DOI

10.3030/101106048

Projekt został zamknięty

Data podpisania przez KE 15 Marca 2023

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Kwietnia 2023

Data zakończenia 31 Marca 2025

Finansowanie w ramach

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Koszt całkowity

Brak danych

Wkład UE

€ 199 694,40

Koordynowany przez

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HIGHCODE (Unravelling high CO2-induced changes in stomatal development)

Okres sprawozdawczy: 2023-04-01 do 2025-03-31

Podsumowanie kontekstu i ogólnych celów projektu

Unlike animals, plants cannot move in response to changes in environmental conditions. Instead, they regulate their interaction with the outside world in order to optimize their fitness and survival. Plants regulate fundamental processes like gas exchange and regulation of inner temperature through pores located on the surface of the leaves, called stomata. They are similar to small mouths that open and close in response to different environmental stimuli. The HIGHCODE project aims to study how plants modify stomata number and disposition to adapt to different conditions, in a process called plasticity. In particular, the project goals are:
- Describing the different patterns stomata can have on the leaves surface in response to different environments.
- Understanding the main regulators of their environmental plasticity.
These results can help understanding how plants adapt to environment, and they can lead to improved agricultural and environmental applications useful to face challenges like climate change.

Prace wykonane od początku projektu do końca okresu sprawozdawczego oraz najważniejsze dotychczasowe rezultaty

Leaf development has been studied in different developmental conditions, to assess how leaf cells behave and respond to usual or unusual growth conditions.
Those very same cells have been extracted and separated according to their localization in the leaf. When cells have different localization, it means they have different roles. Their behavior has been profiled so that different cells can be compared with each other, and their differences highlighted. In this way, putative regulators of developmental processes, such as stomatal development, have been identified. Their role is now better characterized in changing environmental conditions, to have a complete picture of the regulation on developmental plasticity.

Innowacyjność oraz oczekiwany potencjalny wpływ (w tym dotychczasowe znaczenie społeczno-gospodarcze i szersze implikacje społeczne projektu)

To understand how plants can modify their development to adapt to changing environmental conditions, different cells have been observed and profiled, and new regulators of leaf plasticity have been identified. These results could be used to find new solutions to current agricultural and environmental challenges.