Plant Scientists are instrumental in helping the world tackle global food security and other pressing environmental challenges.
Our understanding of biological systems has advanced exponentially during the 20th century and technological developments have allowed us to answer questions that simply could not be a few decades ago. We are now able to model complex entities such as agroecosystems, and the development of molecular biology and phenomics techniques has given us new tools with which to study plants and the environment with which they interact.
While these progresses are very positive, we also live at a time of great challenges: the human population continues to grow at an alarming rate, the climate is changing, access to energy is decreasing worldwide, quality freshwater is getting scarce, biodiversity is reduced, and resources are threatened by human activities. Our research aims to find solutions to these issues and create positive change.
