Munné-Bosch Sergi
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Faculty of Biology, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Research in Biodiversity (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Faculty of Biology, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety (INSA), University of Barcelona, Faculty of Biology, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Trends Plant Sci. 2022 Apr;27(4):346-354. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.10.005. Epub 2021 Nov 5.
The way we currently capture biological processes in space and time often limits our understanding of plant development and stress responses, leading to an incomplete picture of plant life. Choosing the correct time frame for the study of every biological process, from seed germination to senescence or in plant stress responses, is essential, despite methodological limitations. A greater effort is needed in current plant biology studies to incorporate spatiotemporal approaches so that scientific knowledge meets the possibilities technological advances currently provide. From molecular, biochemical, and cellular approaches to (eco)physiological and population studies scaled up to the ecosystem level, there is an urgent need to link space and time using integrative and scalable data.
