Fig. 6 Hypothesized trade-offs across vascular species illustrating a water use economics framework.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dear #Root / #PlantScientists 🧪,
Do you know of any #ProgrammedCellDeath #PCD genes that are specific for #RootHairs only?
The 🌱 species does not matter. RP pls.
#PlantScience #PlantResearch 🧬👩🔬
One of the most important yet invisible jobs in science is peer review.
I am grateful to be part of this process and to receive a reviewer certificate from Oxford University Press.
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social @annbot.bsky.social
One of the most important yet invisible jobs in science is peer review.
I am grateful to be part of this process and to receive a reviewer certificate from Oxford University Press.
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social @annbot.bsky.social
Root mucilage helps plants balance water use: it limits transpiration when soil is wet and preserves hydraulic continuity as soil dries. High-mucilage genotypes conserve water early and maintain water uptake longer, making mucilage a promising trait for improving drought resilience.
🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek
Root mucilage enhances plant water use under combined soil and atmospheric drought by Asegidew Akale et al. in @annbot.bsky.social
#freeaccess article
👉 doi.org/qjtr
@mohannedabdalla.bsky.social
#RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience
Plants that produce more root mucilage keep water flowing longer as soils dry. By smoothing the drop in water potential at the root–soil interface, mucilage helps maintain transpiration and delays hydraulic stress, revealing its key role in sustaining plant function under drought.
🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek
Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale by Mohanned Abdalla et al. in @annbot.bsky.social
#freeaccess article
👉 doi.org/qjpk
#RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience
Honored to have reached 500 citations on Google Scholar! Grateful for the collaborations, mentorship, and research communities that made this possible.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Honored to have reached 500 citations on Google Scholar! Grateful for the collaborations, mentorship, and research communities that made this possible.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
A montage. In the background is a view of liverwort. In front are seedlings, with their roots visible in the earth beneath them.
📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com
This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.
Foraging for water by MIZ1-mediated antagonism between root gravitropism and hydrotropism
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
🌿 Heat Wave Simulator Validated! 🔥
A new system using IR lamps + artificial leaves precisely replicates heat waves, revealing surprising plant resilience:
#PlantScience #ClimateResilience
doi.org/10.53941/pla...
🌱 Rethinking plant limits under extreme weather! 🌍
New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾
We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.
Two-panel figure illustrating root hydraulic conductance in wheat cultivars. Panel (a) shows a line graph of pressure chamber measurements of root hydraulic conductance (Krs) over the years of release from 1900 to 2000, with a downward trend indicated by a dashed line and shaded confidence interval. Panel (b) presents CPlantBox simulations comparing root hydraulic conductance (Krs) over time (in days) for two cultivars: S. Dickkopf (1895) and Tommi (2002), with the older cultivar showing higher conductance.
New paper out in @plantphys.bsky.social :
Juan Baca Cabrera combined #field & #lab/ #structural & #functional / #invivo & #insilico data to analyse how root #hydraulic traits decreased in German winter #wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Hello Bluesky, looking for #forestry #forestecology #botany #plantphysiology #ecophys #ecohydrology people 🌳🌲👨🔬👩🔬
Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
I would love to be added.
I wasn't very sure why the handles on Bluesky were so long. Turns out that is a method for identity verification by which you can attach your own custom domain. I've had a website for a long time and was able to combine a couple steps to get LarryMYork.phenotyper.com as my handle. Want your own? 👇
Plant Ecophysiology starter pack go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
🧪🌱💡 #PlantSciJob
Are you passionate about #robust cropping systems? Do you want to explore how #plant #roots impact water flow across different scales?
We're happy to announce that we have 3 open positions (1 PhD, 2 postdocs) @ UCLouvain (BE) for the EU project DROOGHT.
More: drooght.github.io
#Botany
#PlantScience
image of a plant, with root and shoot, and hydraulic resistance to water between the different organs
🧪🌾 #paperalert
Check our latest paper in Plant Direct, by Juan Baca Cabrera.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Juan collected root hydraulic data from the literature & compiled it into a shared database (roothydraulic-properties.shinyapps.io/database).
Cartoon of the Casparian Strip.
New Editorial: "Salts out, water in" rdcu.be/dCDI1
Research on apoplastic diffusion barriers like the Casparian Strip may help to better understand sensitivity to drought and salinity, two of the most pressing problems in agriculture.
[Illustration: 2011 News&Views rdcu.be/dCDMn ] #PlantScience
I am really proud to share our study on microbes, Striga and sorghum is now online in Cell Reports! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... and the press release is here: biology.ucdavis.edu/news/soil-mi... This was an epic effort led by the incredible Dorota Kawa, +B. Thiombiano, H. Bouwmeester, J. Raiijmakers...
