Society today faces many challenges and scientific progress is key. Some of these challenges are directly linked to plant biology—from adaptation to global change to world food security. Our group includes research areas into basic fundamental aspects of plant physiology and biochemistry, as well as more applied aspects such as those linked to preserving biodiversity or crop ecophysiology, with a particular focus on the most important and emblematic crops in the Mediterranean, such as grapes, tomatoes and olives. The group represents an important critical mass with over 30 different researcher profiles, e.g. physiologists, botanists, chemists, biochemists and agronomists. Although each of the areas set out below has its own profile, the frontiers between them are fluid since the group works in a transdisciplinary approach, enabling much quicker progress in knowledge.

The PlantMed-UIB research group covers the following areas of research:

1. Ecophysiology in the photosynthesis and breathing of plants and other photosynthetic organisms.
2. Plant adaptation to abiotic stress and climate change. Efficient water use in plants.
3. Conservation biology for Balearic plant life and its implications for plant management.
4. Sustainability in agricultural production and agroecology. Crop adaptation to climate change.