tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: Shaped by the environment – adaptation in plants Meeting report based on the presentations at the FEBS Workshop ‘Adaptation Potential in Plants’ 2009 (Vienna, Austria)

As sessile organisms that are unable to escape from inhospitable environ-ments, plants are at the mercy of the elements. Nonetheless, plants have managed to adapt, evolve and survive in some of the harshest conditions on earth. | ỊFEBS Journal REVIEW ARTICLE Shaped by the environment - adaptation in plants Meeting report based on the presentations at the FEBS Workshop Adaptation Potential in Plants 2009 Vienna Austria Maria F. Siomos Gregor Mendellnstitute of Molecular Plant Biology Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna Austria Keywords adaptation Arabidopsis climate change Darwin ecology environment evolution genomic variability speciation stress Correspondence M. F. Siomos Gregor MendelInstitute of Molecular Plant Biology Austrian Academy of Sciences Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3 1030 Vienna Austria Fax 43 1 79044 23 9101 Tel 43 1 79044 9101 E-mail Website http Received 25 May 2009 revised 18 June 2009 accepted 25 June 2009 doi As sessile organisms that are unable to escape from inhospitable environments plants are at the mercy of the elements. Nonetheless plants have managed to adapt evolve and survive in some of the harshest conditions on earth. The FEBS Workshop Adaptation Potential in Plants held at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology Vienna Austria from 19 to 21 March 2009 provided a forum including 18 invited talks 8 selected short talks and 69 posters for about 100 plant biologists from 32 countries working in the diverse fields of genetics epigenetics stress signalling and growth and development to come together and discuss adaptation potential in plants at all its levels. Introduction Two hundred years after the birth of the British naturalist and writer Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Fig. 1A and 150 years after his seminal publication On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1 Darwin s theory of evolution in which natural selection acting on heritable variation in populations is responsible for biological diversity has been widely accepted by biologists. As written by Theodosius Dobzhansky Nothing in biology makes sense except