PlantACT! – how to tackle the climate crisis

by Heribert Hirt, Salim Al-Babili, Marilia Almeida-Trapp, Martin Antoine, Manuel Aranda, Dorothea Bartels, Malcolm Bennett, Ikram Blilou, Damian Boer, Alix Boulouis, Chris Bowler, Sophie Brunel-Muguet, Fabien Chardon, Jean Colcombet, Vincent Colot, Agata Daszkowska-Golec, Jose R. Dinneny, Ben Field, Katja Froehlich, Catherine H. Gardener, Alain Gojon, Eric Gomès, Eva María Gómez Álvarez, Crisanto Gutierrez, Michel Havaux, Scott Hayes, Edith Heard, Michael Hodges, Amal Khalaf Alghamdi, Laurent Laplaze, Kyle J. Lauersen, Nathalie Leonhard, Xenie Johnson, Jonathan Jones, Hannes Kollist, Stanislav Kopriva, Anne Krapp, Mauricio Lopez-Portillo Masson, Matthew F. McCabe, Livia Merendino, Antonio Molina, Jose L. Moreno Ramirez, Bernd Müller-Röber, Michaël Nicolas, Ido Nir, Izamar Olivas Orduna, José Pardo-Tomás, Jean-Philippe Reichheld, Pedro Luis Rodriguez Egea, Hatem Rouached, Maged M. Saad, Peter Schlögelhofer, Kirti A. Singh, Ive De Smet, Clara Stanschewski, Alice Stra, Mark Tester, Catherine Walshe, Andreas P.M. Weber, Detlef Weigel, Philip Wigge, Michael Wrzaczek, Brande Wulff, Iain M. Young
Opinion Paper Year: 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.01.005

Bibliography

Hirt, H., Al-Babili, S., Almeida-Trapp, M., Antoine, M., Aranda, M., Bartels, D., Bennett, M., Blilou, I., Boer, D., Boulouis, A., Bowler, C., Brunel-Muguet, S., Chardon, F., Colcombet, J., Colot, V., Daszkowska-Golec, A., Dinneny, J.R., Field, B., Froehlich, K., Gardener, C.H., Gojon, A., Gomès, E., Álvarez, E.M.G., Gutierrez, C., Havaux, M., Hayes, S., Heard, E., Hodges, M., Alghamdi, A.K., Laplaze, L., Lauersen, K.J., Leonhard, N., Johnson, X., Jones, J., Kollist, H., Kopriva, S., Krapp, A., Masson, M.L.-P., McCabe, M.F., Merendino, L., Molina, A., Moreno Ramirez, J.L., Müller-Röber, B., Nicolas, M., Nir, I., Orduna, I.O., Pardo-Tomás, J., Reichheld, J.-P., Egea, P.L.R., Rouached, H., Saad, M.M., Schlögelhofer, P., Singh, K.A., De Smet, I., Stanschewski, C., Stra, A., Tester, M., Walshe, C., Weber, A.P.M., Weigel, D., Wigge, P., Wrzaczek, M., Wulff, B., Young, I.M. (2023) PlantACT! – how to tackle the climate crisis. Trends in Plant Science.

Abstract

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have created a global climate crisis which requires immediate interventions to mitigate the negative effects on all aspects of life on this planet. As current agriculture and land use contributes up to 25% of total GHG emissions, plant scientists take center stage in finding possible solutions for a transition to sustainable agriculture and land use. In this article, the PlantACT! (Plants for climate ACTion!) initiative of plant scientists lays out a road map of how and in which areas plant scientists can contribute to finding immediate, mid-term, and long-term solutions, and what changes are necessary to implement these solutions at the personal, institutional, and funding levels.

Keywords

greenhouse gas emission climate change agriculture food safety water use efficiency nitrogen use efficiency carbon sequestration