How can plants adapt to climate change?

Cell biologist and associated BIOSS member Stefan Rensing explains how looking into the past can reveal the solution for the future.
“It is well worth studying the enormous processes of adaptation plants have undergone to take the leap from water to land more than 500 million years ago. Understanding these processes is a step towards helping plant life to cope with climate change and preserving biodiversity,” says Prof. Dr. Stefan Rensing, cell biologist and Vice-President for Research and Innovation at the University of Freiburg. Together with Dr. Mona Schreiber from the University of Marburg and Prof. Dr. Sven Gould from the University of Düsseldorf, he gives an overview of current research into how plants transitioned to land in the recently published paper “The greening ashore: How plants changed the climate before we did”.