Understanding and describing the life of plants through the different organizational levels is one of the most complex challenges in this field of knowledge.
Understanding and describing the life of plants through the different organizational levels is one of the most complex challenges in this field of knowledge. If the perspective of space and time is not properly applied to plant research, the understanding of biological processes is limited as well as the response to the threats that endanger the life of plants worldwide. This is one of the main conclusions of an article published in the journal Trends in Plant Science by Professor Sergi Munné-Bosch, from the Faculty of Biology , the Biodiversity Research Institute ( IRBio ) and the Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety ( INSA ) of the UB. A spatiotemporal framework for plant research In the global change scenario, methodological limitations in the field of plant biology are not helpful to obtain a full image of the processes that affect the plant life. Improving the level of knowledge on plant species requires adding a spatiotemporal framework using integrative and scalable data that capture the biological processes (such as germination, senescence, or plant stress responses), from molecular, biochemical, cellular and populational approaches. At the moment, understanding and describing the life of plants through the different organizational levels is one of the most complex challenges in this field. Therefore, it is necessary to do research from an integrative perspective —with disciplines such as physics, chemistry, mathematics— and between individuals (intraspecific variability), as well as the variations between the different organs, tissues and organelles.
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