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RT @EvoMPMI: We're looking for a PhD student on disease mechanisms of the barley pathogen Ramularia collo cygni, supported by a (tax free)…

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RT @UCDflowerpower: GWAS for Nobel prize laureates.

RT @asherichia: Urrrrrr...All major papers of Victor Ambros are shared with his wife Rosalind Lee.... Does the nobel committee just hate w…

@Dr_Joe_McIntyre @hapyresearchers I came to write just that. I think we all know some of those…

RT @PeretLab: Our latest pre-print on long distance regulation of cluster roots in white lupin is out !

Corentin is looking for a PostDoc for January. Contact him! #ISSR12

Fabrice Bauget @IPSiM_fr switch to something more molecular. He showed their work on a model predicting water horizontal flow in the root #ISRR12

@clement_cast showed a method to 3D scan and model pine tree root system. The digitalized and modeled roots were very promising results #ISRR12

@C_A_White presented works done in the field and without soil in a lab early growth system. Some traits correlate nicely between the 2 very different systems. Plenty more results to come to confirm and elaborate #ISRR12

@marcusdgriff presented his work on the cover crop pennycress, either in field (with root washing and scanning the roots), and in mesocosm. In the field, they saw a large effect of accessions on root length, with QTLs, and a - correlation between root length and density #ISRR12

@KatarzynaRetzer presented RaPID-chamber, an automatisée phenotyping system made with a RaspberryPi, a camera, infrared lights and a box, imaging a plant grown in soil in a petridish. The whole system can be built for less than 200 euros. « Welcome to Rootflix! » #ISRR12

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We entered the world of signaling today with the great talk by Malcolm Bennett. How do plants sense water? The main and somehow universal signal is ABA, whether the water stress is drought or compaction. It either repress lateral roots or induce barriers formation #ISRR12

In Takuya Koyama’s setup, substrate was divided in four and P distributed uniformly or more in a quarter of it. P uptake was more efficient when it was distributed in one patch, with a higher concentration. Roots branch more there without increase in total root length #ISRR12