Acclimation in plants – the Green Hub consortium

Acclimation is the capacity to adapt environmental changes within lifetime of an individual. This ability allows plants cope with continuous variation in ambient conditions which they are exposed as sessile organisms. Because and extremes becoming even more pronounced due current period climate change, enhancing efficacy plant acclimation a promising strategy for mitigating consequences global warming on crop yields. At cellular level, chloroplast plays central role many responses, acting both sensor change target responses. In this Perspective article, we outline activities Green Hub consortium funded by German Science Foundation. The main aim research collaboration understand strategically modify networks that mediate adverse environments, employing Arabidopsis, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Chlamydomonas model These efforts will contribute ‘smart breeding’ methods designed create improved properties. To end, oilseed Camelina sativa being used test modulators their potential enhance yield under conditions. Here highlight state gene expression, metabolism signalling acclimation, focus chloroplast-related processes. addition, further approaches uncovering mechanisms derived from systems computational biology, well adaptive laboratory evolution photosynthetic microbes, highlighted.