🎥New #BarleyMicroBreed video - meet young researchers Menghui Dong and Karl Ludwig Körber working on disentangling beneficial interactions between #barley genotypes and root #microbiomes.
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The ability of roots to control their growth direction will never stop to amaze me 😀 #gravitropism #roots #barley #rootphenotyping monitoring dynamics of root growth changes on soil (frames every 10 min during 1h, 1DAG primary root, 2nd time gravistimulated in a row)
48th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18 December 2025 at 15.00 CET discussing
Roots for future crops: Horizon Europe Projects on Roots with Kati Retzer, Christopher Barnes, Charlotte White and Rafaella Balestrini. bit.ly/4pHuNkl. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
50 Whole Barley Genomes Assembled – A major step in BarleyMicroBreed
The Barnes’ group at University of Copenhagen has assembled 50 complete barley genomes within BarleyMicroBreed! 🎉
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#BarleyMicroBreed #Genomics #CRISPR #PlantScience #SustainableAgriculture
We hope all #PMS2025 participants had some inspiring days in Malaga🍀🌾😊! Thanks to Aditya Malwe and Karl Körber for presenting their great @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social work connecting barley genomes, metabolomes, root microbiomes and drought resilience🙏🌾🌞
#roots #rootphenotyping on soil 🔬 DIY setup to track dynamic root growth continously without disturbing root using IRLEDs #plantscience @raspberrypi.com @openflexure.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #simonpree @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social
Karl Körber supported by his great lab team Lisa Martinez, Chandra Ramanathan, Devin Dalsgaard and Ahmed Salem are busy sampling barley varieties, mutants and introgression lines from his second controlled drought experiment to disclose links btw barley genes, microbiomes and drought resilience🌾🌞
It was a pleasure to host @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social at PLEN, where she shared updates from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social as well as endeavors into imaging plant roots in the dark
I am happy to present a, what I learned from our in-field to lab approach @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social -which #roottraits #rootphenotyping were informative in an approach across 3 countries (5 fields, Austria, Lebanon, Morocco) - and b, my long year interest of experimental design influences #root
#rootforaging correlation environment/ field (samlped in Austria @bokuvienna.bsky.social Wien, Morocco, Lebanon #ICARDA) of our 3 subset of 200 #barley varieties per panel #rootangle #roots #rootphenotyping in-field - super exciting @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social
Happy to visit my colleagues from the @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social project :) #barley #droughtresilience #roots plant-soil-microbiome continuum @au.dk
Great that you are visiting ud, @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social - thanks😊🌾🌞
That's so incredible cool to be able to track root growth with this details grown on soil, shaded from direct light, super happy #SimonPree @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social #barley #plantscience #plantphysiology #roots #droughtresilience studies
Sincere gratitude from #BarleyMicroBreed to #Rhizosphere6 for an inspiring conference👏. We received fantastic and truly inspiring feedback on our presentations - keynote by Mette Vestergård, talk by Menghui Dong and posters by Karl Körber and Andrea Visioni🙏🌾🌞.
Finally getting to hear about the awesome project @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social at #rhizosphere6 - breeding for plant-microbe interactions in barley
New results are presented by Menghui Dong: such good and impressive results that I won't spoil! But be on the lookout for publications from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social to see the future of crop breeding for plant-microbe interactions!
600 barley lines and 54,000 !!!!! roots dug up and sampled for the correlation phase - absolutely massive and impressive effort!
Thanks, Courtney!
Happy to share that #Root2Res and #BarleyMicroBreed will jointly host the “Manipulating the rhizosphere with crop genetics” session at #Rhizosphere6. Root2Res and BarleyMucroBreed talks by Mette Vestergård (keynote), Menghui Dong, Lionel Dupuy and Tim George🌾🌞. www.rhizo6.org/scientific-p...
We are looking forward to #Rhizosphere6, where Karl Ludwig Körber, Menghui Dong and Mette Vestergård will present #BarleyMicroBreed visions and findings🌾🌞!
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#ATSPB2025 conference organised by @bokuvienna.bsky.social happy to present progress of #roots phenotyping @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social and tracking elongation dynamics of #seedlingestablishment #roothairs #apicalhook #snrk1 #kin10
Super motivating - upon excessive drought stress we found few extreme switches in #roots depth #barley @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social 🌾🌾
Enthusiastic exchange students from CZ, thank you 😊 for your support in @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social
Starting our big summer screen 2025 to see if in-field measured #roots phenotypes are reproducible in lab #translationalscience #barley @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social pot in soil and pouch growth assays, tracking #roothairs, #seminalroot #rootangle etc
Finalised our overview of 2 seasons -5 fields (3 countries) - ca 600 #barley varieties- 10000s of datapoints of above and below ground traits -looks like some work was done 😀 @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social -thx to Nathalie Friedl for mastering #rshiny #droughtresilience #roots
Thanks for your massive efforts👏💪🙏🌾🌞
#translationalscience approach - screening for molecular keyplayers that modualte at cellular level #soil-root-microbiome continuum @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social
#fundamentalscience #translationalscience to understand which of putative SNPs and QTLs are relevant in the #soil-root-microbiome continuum @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social
Thx Babak @babakmalekian.bsky.social for making a movie about our DYI IR LED #roots #phenotyping devices, more to come soon @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #Raspberrypi #openflexure @openflexure.bsky.social
Teams from @Root2Res and @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social interested in root phenotyping met to discuss our range of protocols and approaches. We’re looking forward to getting together at Rhizo6 in Edinburgh in June.
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