🎥New #BarleyMicroBreed video - meet young researchers Menghui Dong and Karl Ludwig Körber working on disentangling beneficial interactions between #barley genotypes and root #microbiomes. youtu.be/MQQ7ssuKYzk

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! 🎉 Read more: agro.au.dk/forskning/in... #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

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!

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🌾🌞! www.rhizo6.org/scientific-p...

#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

#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. @BreedMicro #Rhizosphere6

Project meeting 2025 - meet some of the talented people that work hard to reach the goals of @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social: 🌾 Identifying barley genome-microbiome-root phenotype links 🌾 Developing new breeding strategies for microbiome-aided drought resilient barley lines youtu.be/rQBN-Vzn_38

NUE analysis in #barley @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @babakmalekian.bsky.social

now its fun :) #roots #barley #DDrC #rootgrowth #directionalrootgrowth @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social #automatized #IRimaging #soilrootinteraction @bokuvienna.bsky.social

trying to predict root trajectory #barley #roots #IRimaging #IRleds grown on soil in darkness @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social - some dancing roots before the weekend :)

Everyday a small progress #DDrC #roottracking #barley #roots @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #SimonPree - exciting work :) - not yet perfect but getting better :)

Looking forward to www.rhizo6.org Rhizosphere_6 to meet colleagues from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social and our EU Horizon sister project Root2Res and the @rootscientists.bsky.social community #roots #rhizosphere @rootarchitecture.bsky.social

📢 The new deadline to submit your abstract for #Rhizosphere6 is March 28 (new extension). Join us in Edinburgh to share your root and rhizosphere research! 🤩

Thx William and Julien from @openflexure.bsky.social for your interest in our work and great input how to improve the #IRLed based #microscope to study #roots on soil looking forward further collaboration #harnessingnaturalresources #plantscience @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

@barleymicrobreed.bsky.social will be at the Rhizoshere6 conference in Edinburgh - we host a joint session with Root2Res and present work on 🌞 breeding barley to interact with stress-alleviating microbiomes 🌞 root phenotyping Abstract submission deadline 14March! Read more: www.rhizo6.org/home

Connecting Root Traits to Plant Performance EU Horizon @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social project, we focus on quantifying root traits under stress conditions. Our work helps identify how root function contributes to plant resilience, particularly in drought-prone environments

Building Novel Tools for Root Science Root phenotyping remains a challenging field, our research aims to improve the way we study root systems, helping scientists, breeders...to better understand the underground half of plants. @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

The deadline for abstracts for Rhizosphere 6 has been extended to 14th March, please submit your abstracts before then to have the chance to speak at the conference. @hutton.ac.uk #Rhizosphere6

BarleyMicroBreeders meeting at BOKU in Vienna for the annual BarleyMicroBreed meeting to share progress and discuss strategies for the validation and implementation phases of the project. Read more: www.barleymicrobreed.eu Thanks to @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social and BOKU team for organizing🌾🙏

Great talk from Henrik Brinch-Pedersen from @au.dk a partner in the @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social hold at @bokuvienna.bsky.social about his groundbreaking #roots quantification method from soil samples 👏 using #ddPCR allowing a more accurate and faster approach looking forward to use it by myself

youtu.be/6hGqfD-siz0?... @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social was fun to talk about our work #roots #rootarchitecture #rootfunction #roothairs #soolmicrobiome #harnessingnaturalresources #DDrC #ambassadorISRRWP6

Busy lab days sampling roots for the analyses of #microbiome responses to #drought across contrasting #barley lines. Thanks to #BarleyMicroBreed PhD student Karl Körber and his hardworking PLANMIK Crew💪🙏🌾

Introducing #ambassadorISRRWP6 Kataryzna Retzer, interested in root-soil interactions, #roots adaptation to stress, improving root phenotyping #DDrC, #drootsystem, #translationalscience field to lab and back boku.ac.at/en/oekb/woek... @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿 www.rhizo6.org/home please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting. @hutton.ac.uk #rhizosphere6

Amazing construction of a 3D printed microscope @openflexure.bsky.social using #IRLED to observe #roots #roothairs #rootarchitecture on soil in darkness, ca 200€, by PhD Student Simon Pree @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social EU Horizon - love his innovative ring light;4x objective

New video presenting @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social efforts to develop strategies for #breeding #drought resilient #barley, genetically equipped to optimized #rooot #microbiome interactions youtu.be/jsEMvpyfA1s

Lovely visit from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social partner @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social from BOKU at AU-Flakkebjerg today. Great talk about root research and a greenhouse visit to see ongoing barley-drought-microbiome metagenomics experiment by PhD Karl Ludwig Korber. Thanks for visiting, Kati🌾😊!

The BarleyMicroBreed project working to develope breeding strategies to improve drought resilience in barley via optimized interactions with the root microbiome are happy to announce our appearance at Bluesky🌾😊! Read more about the project here: www.barleymicrobreed.eu