Plants in a high CO2 environment: constraints and opportunities

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Academic symposium aimed at an informed scientific or non-scientific audience.

Organized by the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Agriculture, this symposium will address the state of knowledge and the issues surrounding the impact of rising atmospheric CO2 on the plant world. On the one hand, the climatic disruption caused by this rise exacerbates the abiotic constraints exerted on plants: drought, heat, extreme climatic events, endangering their productivity and even their survival. On the other hand, and in a singular way compared to other living organisms, a higher concentration of CO2 stimulates the growth of most plants, due to increased photosynthesis.

This positive effect, known as "CO2 fertilization", also has a significant impact on the transfer of carbon into soils, with plants thus contributing to the mitigation of climate change. This symposium will therefore summarize the constraints and opportunities that a rise in atmospheric CO2 represents for plants and associated agroecosystems.

Organizers

Christophe Maurel, member of the French Academy of Sciences and Alain Gojon, corresponding member of the French Academy of Agriculture

Speakers (detailed program to follow)

Marie-Odile Bancal, lecturer at AgroParisTech, Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes laboratory (Ecosys - Inrae/AgroParisTech)

Claire Chenu, corresponding member of the French Academy of Agriculture, research director at Inrae, professor at AgroParisTech, Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes laboratory (Ecosys - Inrae/AgroParisTech)

Philippe Ciais, member of the Académie des sciences, member of the Académie d'agriculture de France, research director at CEA, Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE - CEA/CNRS/Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Pierre Crozet, lecturer at Sorbonne University, Computational, Quantitative and Synthetic Biology laboratory (CQSB - CNRS/Sorbonne University)

Meije Gawinowski, research associate at Inrae, Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes laboratory (Ecosys - Inrae/AgroParisTech)

Xenie Johnson, research director and deputy team leader at CEA

Nathalie Leonhardt, research director and team leader at CEA

David Makowski, research director at Inrae, Environment and Agronomy department

Antoine Martin, research director at CNRS, Institut des sciences des plantes de Montpellier (IPSiM - CNRS/Inrae/Université de Montpellier)

Philippe Gate, member of the French Academy of Agriculture, scientific director of Arvalis-Institut du végétal (2009-2021)