What does climate change and drought do to plant roots? - Keith Lindsey
As climate change continues to cause droughts across the world, plant scientists are in a race to understand how this will affect our crop plants; not an easy task especially in the face of an increasing human population that needs feeding. Keith Lindsey researches what happens to root development when plants are stressed; under low water conditions or high saline soils, what happens to the plant? By better understanding how plants respond to stresses, it is hoped that we'll be able to engineer more resilient crops for a more prosperous future. 0:00 Introduction 0:11 Plant development & climate change 1:04 From astronaut to plant scientist 2:44 The joys of teaching & publishing research Speaker profile: Keith Lindsey is Professor of Plant Molecular Biology and Head of the Department of Biosciences at Durham University (UK). His research interests are in understanding molecular mechanisms of plant development. A graduate of Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, he carried out postdoctoral research both at Edinburgh's Department of Botany and at the Department of Biochemistry at Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research). He was appointed to an academic faculty post at the University of Leicester in 1989, before moving to a Chair in Durham in 1996. Until recently he was President and Chair of Council of the Society for Experimental Biology (the UK's largest learned society for non-medical life sciences research); a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) (BBSRC's governing body); and a member of the UK Government Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE, which advises government Ministers on genetically modified (GM)-related issues). He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and of the Royal Society of Biology. Keith has been an Editor of New Phytologist since 2003 and is Chair of the New Phytologist Trust. For more information on Keith, visit https://www.dur.ac.uk/biosciences/abo... Filmed at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, 2022. #plantscience #plantbiology #climatechange
