📢 New publication 'Substantial capacitance found in the roots of 2 contrasting conifer species' by Christopher McCarthy, Ibrahim Bourbia and Timothy Brodribb in Plant Physiology 🧪
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Above- and below-ground water storage measurements in 2 contrasting conifer species indicate root capacitance contributes to the water demands during trans
🌾 New preprint!
“Root anatomical gradients and cultivar differences underlie variation in root hydraulic properties in German winter wheat.”
Guillaume Lobet
Please find our latest paper in @pnas.org. Lots of work from a fantastic group: Qian Ma, Sijia Liu, @siamsadoyle.bsky.social , Sara Raggi and others including @luciastrader.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @kawresearch.bsky.social @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🧪🌾News - How do seedlings straighten when emerging from the soil?🔬
@srobertgroup.bsky.social & collaborators have identified a protein that promotes this seedling straightening via the plant hormone auxin.
Read more about the story published in @pnas.org here👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
Apical hook development is an ideal model for studying differential growth in plants
and is controlled by complex phytohormonal crosstalk, with aux...
🌱 New from www.pepa.science -@ UCLouvain: a curated list of field-ready indicators for assessing ecosystem services in cropping systems.
Authors: @lolaleveau.bsky.social et al.
🔗 oneecosystem.pensoft.net/articles.php...
#SustainableAgriculture
🧪🌾INTERVIEW - His discovery challenges current textbook knowledge
PhD student Özer Erguvan from the @stephanevrg.bsky.social group discovered that two key sites in plant cell walls and not the middle lamella help cells stick together.🔬
Read more in this interview👇:
www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...
The transition from intensive crop production to more sustainable practices, such as ecologically intensive cropping systems, requires precise, field-based assessments of Ecosystem Services (ES). Thes...
Happy to share our newest preprint. We developed guidelines and analysis workflows for FLIM Imaging in plants. Multiplexing with spectrally overlapping fluorophores in plants is now possible. Have a look. Any feedback is more than welcome.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Umeå Plant Science Centre
Stéphanie Robert
Our work now on its final version. We mapped the mechanical properties of roots at tissue and single cell levels using Brillouin microscopy and molecular rotors. Additional mutants and stress measurements from what we previously showed in the preprint are included.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Umeå Plant Science Centre
Adrien Heymans
New preprint from PEPA lab: www.pepa.science !
🍅🌱 GRANAR-dicot anatomical reconstructions + 💧 MECHA hydraulic modeling show how lignin cap acts on root water transport.
📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701735
Great work @marcodago.bsky.social et al.
#plantsci
New Article!
Impact of root development, soil texture and length of the root hair zone on root water uptake
buff.ly/WTxC0NW #PlantScience #RootScience
Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.
AbstractBackground and Aim. Root hairs are considered to be crucial for facilitating root water uptake, but the specific conditions influencing their impac
