CartograPlant: bridging genomic, phenotypic, and environmental data to advance plant resilience and eco-evolutionary insight.
Lind BM, Cobo-Simón I, Myles M, Barrett G, Grau E
Climate Adaptation
PubMedCrops in your grocery store, the trees in your local park, and the wildflowers in your garden are all under threat from a changing climate and new pests — and this tool helps scientists figure out which plants can survive and thrive so we can protect and breed more resilient ones.
Imagine trying to understand why some trees survive a harsh drought while others nearby die — you'd need to know their genes, how they look and grow, and what the local weather has been like for years. CartograPlant is a free website that pulls all that information together onto a map so scientists can spot patterns and answer those questions much faster. This helps conservationists, farmers, and land managers make smarter decisions about which plants to protect or breed for a tougher future.
Key Findings
CartograPlant integrates genotypic, phenotypic, and environmental data from georeferenced individual plants into a single unified web platform, solving a long-standing data fragmentation problem in plant science.
Recent updates added new data sources, improved interoperability between datasets, and introduced NextFlow bioinformatics pipelines — significantly expanding the tool's analytical power.
The platform is designed to serve a broad audience including researchers, conservationists, land managers, and plant breeders, making complex eco-evolutionary analysis accessible without specialized programming skills.
chevron_right Technical Summary
Scientists built CartograPlant, a free web tool that combines plant genetic, physical trait, and environmental data onto interactive maps, helping researchers and land managers understand how plants respond to climate change, pests, and disease across different locations and time periods.
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Climate change is threatening plant health and productivity at all spatial scales, and these impacts are further compounded by the rising incidence of invasive pests and pathogens. Effectively addr...
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