Metabolite pools and their implications for plant responses to global change

澳大利亚的景观管理面临着来自现有土地做法和气候变化影响的重大挑战。有效的管理和有针对性的补救需要了解推动生态系统功能的过程。因此，开发广泛适用的监测植物和生态系统健康的工具具有相当大的意义。工厂功能核心流程的灵活性是开发此类工具的重要机会。该项目将以植物代谢物为重点，描述澳大利亚树木如何改变资源分配以应对环境变化，并产生基于代谢产物的澳大利亚树木耐受逆境的选择性特征。

Australian landscape management faces significant challenges from existing land practices and the effects of climate change. Effective management and targeted remediation requires an understanding of the processes that drive ecosystem function. The development of broadly applicable tools for the monitoring of plant and ecosystem health is therefore of considerable interest. Flexibility in core processes of plant function represents a significant opportunity to develop such tools. With a focus on plant metabolites, this project will characterise how Australian trees alter the allocation of resources to cope with environmental changes and produce metabolite-based selective traits for stress tolerance in Australian trees.