Data management in Plant Sciences: update on the BioData.pt Plant Sciences community

To address the challenge of sustainable production of food and non-food plant products (e.g. wood, cork, paper), particularly in the scope of climate change, many plant sciences researchers aim to study the interplay between plant development, genomic features and environmental signals. The Plant Sciences Community aims to tackle the challenge of managing plant genotypic and phenotypic data according to the FAIR data principles. Aligned with ELIXIR Europe, this effort is determinant to guarantee efficient integration and reuse of plant phenotyping and genotyping datasets, so that full value can be extracted from the increasing wealth of data collected by researchers and producers worldwide. In Portugal, this community is coordinated by ITQB NOVA and also includes several researchers from iBET, FCUL, U. Minho and CEBAL