Temperature-Light-Chromatin (TLC) : Environmental signal integration in plant nuclear hubs.

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Plants are highly plastic organisms and an ideal system to study how environmental stimuli guide their morphology and growth. Plant responses to changing light and temperature are interconnected as both parameters rely on sunlight. The aim of this proposal is to understand how plants respond to light and warm temperature signals. The alarming rise in global temperatures are predicted to lead to huge crop losses (up to 10% per 1 degree C increase). Therefore, there is an urgent need to discover and characterise the key molecular components integrating light and thermotolerance responses in plants. We will study how one protein can control the balance between plant growth and protection to elevated temperatures depending on its "cellular neighbourhood" in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Our aim is to apply our findings to economically important plant species as a means of minimising crop loss and maximise protection against global warming.