VII Plant, Signaling & Behaviour Symposium and VI Systems Ecophysiology Symposium

This event emerges as a collaboration between the Society for Plant, Signaling & Behavior Society (PSB) and the Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology (SBFV). The first have been organizing PSB Symposia now in its VII edition, while SBFV have supported the organization of the Systems Ecophysiology Symposium (SES), a Brazilian version of PSB which have been organized since 2014 and now has its VI edition. After a fortunate meeting held in Seattle in 2023 during the VI PSB Symposium,  this wonderful opportunity to place both events together happened. The VII PSB and VI SES Symposiums are characterized as spaces for discussing themes emerging from the study of interactions between plants and their environment from a multidisciplinary perspective. These events stand out as unprecedented opportunities for combining the fields of Plant Science, Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy in which multidisciplinary and unusual topics in technical-scientific plant biology are explored. For example, previous editions of SES and PSB involved discussions that address cognitive aspects of plants, such as memory, learning, intelligence, and plant-plant communication, in addition to a deep theoretical discussion about how the plant works and how it influences and is influenced by the environment. The systemic perspective of SES and PSB has contributed substantially to reducing botanical blindness and increasing our understanding of the physiological and ecological processes that regulate the dynamics of natural and agricultural ecosystems, influencing the way botanists, agronomists, plant physiologists and people in general observe and investigate plants.