In the current podcast, Larissa Vassilian talks to the CEPLAS members Maria von Korff Schmising (HHU) and Markus Stetter (UzK) about "SMART" plants for food security. They provide insights into their work and report on their goal of breeding crops that are high-yielding and healthy, while at the same time able to resist increasing heat, drought and disease. The audience will learn about the advantages of perennial over annual crops and what past domestication of plants teaches us about how to obtain new crops with special nutrients and good adaptation to climate change.