Dr Lamis Abdelhakim
Dr. Lamis Abdelhakim is a Postdoc at PSI (Photon Systems Instruments) research center, Czech Republic.
She used to work in Carl-Otto Ottosen’s research group at the Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, Denmark where she gained her PhD degree and continued as a Postdoc fellow. Her research focuses on understanding the morphological, physiological, and biochemical responses of crops to single and combined abiotic stresses at different CO2 levels. She is currently part of the research team at CAPITALISE and ADAPT projects working with state-of-art high-throughput phenotyping approaches to identify traits of interest.
Title: Investigating the physiological responses of plants and yield resilience to single and combined stresses
Webinar date: Tuesday 6th February 14.00 CET
Abstract:
The occurrence of severe and frequent heat waves, drought, and flooding events as a consequence of climate change seriously threatens crop productivity. Thus, finding robust crops is critical for maintaining the food supply. When plants are exposed to multiple stresses under field conditions, the intensity of one stress can overrule the effect of other stress and an opposing response can occur resulting in positive or negative effects on plants depending on the intensity, duration, and combination of stress. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of morphological and physiological responses including growth rate, photosynthetic efficiency, and canopy temperature of plants to single and combined abiotic stress is highly demanded. In this talk, I will present the various responses of different genotypes to abiotic stress using gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, and targeted metabolomic profiling on a leaf level and using high-throughput image-based phenotyping on a canopy level. In addition, highlight the need to study the effects of combined stresses on yield to reveal the potential of plants to cope with future climate change.