Early-bird registration for PADiBa2026 closes in few days (May 15th)! wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/

Out now in @natplants.nature.com: A cell type-specific antagonism of autophagy and age-induced programmed cell death controls root hair life span www.nature.com/articles/s41..., back to back with another story on root hair-specific autophagy by @plantophagy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Observing the invisible: X-ray CT for plant-microbe interactions 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Pereira and Bell @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience #PlantMicrobeInteractions

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Cross-kingdom communication between plants and parasitic nematodes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@dompsfr.bsky.social is well represented at the #Rooting2026 conference! We just heard a great talk by @lauraragni.bsky.social. You can check out our posters #7 (@hengqi.bsky.social) and #4 (mine) today, and listen to my talk tomorrow.

🌾🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🌾 In rice, combining the deep-root allele DRO1 and shallow-root allele qSOR1 expands root distribution into both topsoil and subsoil layers, enhancing yield in nutrient-poor paddy fields in Madagascar - Takai et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Now online at @natplants.nature.com ‼️ Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student @gmivienna.bsky.social & together w/ @moritznowack.bsky.social lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short 🧵👇

#roots. Seen at #11throoting2026 😎

Concluding a great #rooting2026 Thank you Sabrina, Riccardo and Raffaele (not in Pic) for perfect organisation!

Save the date for the Plant Biology Europe 2027 #PBE27 and share - we are assembling the programme, looking forward to host you in Vienna 17-20.08.2027 @univie.ac.at organized by @atspb.bsky.social @wolframweckwerth.bsky.social together with @bokuvienna.bsky.social @uni-graz.at and more collegues

Great gathering at the #rooting2026 symposium #roots - three of our ambassadors presented their work @sophiezoe.bsky.social @rodag.bsky.social @hhtormar.bsky.social and more are around #roots #rootphenotyping

Thrilled to present our latest Root2Res research on a novel methodology for simultaneous sampling of rhizosphere microbiota and root exudates from soil-grown plants @rootscientists.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social

If you missed Sharon Zytnska (University of Manchester) at the IBH seminar, you can now catch the recording 🌱 Induced resistance in barley: how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence Watch here: youtu.be/q4bPD_oo6-s?... @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

Come and see what we’re doing at the Royal Highland Show 📍 Ingliston, Edinburgh 📅 18–21 June Say hello and find out more about our work! 🌱 www.royalhighlandshow.org #RHS26 @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

🌱🧩 RESEARCH 🧩🌱 The BIRD protein NUTCRACKER is a component of the core regulatory network that controls the stem cell niche and cell division the rice root meristem - Kirschner et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

What a fantastic summary video! Thank you! 😊 Hope it was informative and enjoyable.

🤓 The latest edition of the ISRR Newsletter has been published on the website! Will you check it out? www.rootresearch.org/newsletter

The first #conference and #workshop on the #Rhizotest method will be September 2026. Abstract submission closes April 30th. rhizotest.cirad.fr/en

Save the date @atspb.bsky.social @wolframweckwerth.bsky.social are looking forward to hosting you 17-20.August 2027 in Vienna Plant Biology Europe Congress and please share the information

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

The 7th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers (PADiBa2026) will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from August 31th to September 3rd 2026. We now have a website: wp.unil.ch/padiba2026/ Registrations will open on April 1st.

#apoplast pH imaging protocol

#roots mechanobiology 👌

#root anatomy. Mechanism of phellem differentiation. Mechanobiology. Learnt new tissue type/cell states 👌

New manuscript out in Cell Reports! Shani lab has develope a multiplexed, tissue-specific CRISPR toolbox for Arabidopsis that overcomes gene family redundancy & enables large-scale,cell-type-resolved genetic screens 📃 www.cell.com/cell-reports... @eilonshani.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social

Very excited that our review on carbon allocation to axial sink organs is published. Super writing experience and discussions with Anil and @bjazminrh.bsky.social, thank you both for your great work and ideas!

Happy to see this work out there 😊

We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...

Gwen is going with a group from Hutton to UAE next week to make connections with research organisations in the Emirates. @hutton.ac.uk @gwenkirschner.bsky.social

We hosted the ISRR Mini Symposium last week with 14 talks on roots from a whole range of research fields. If you want to catch up on this the link to the recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQqD... @rootscientists.bsky.social

Functional analysis of barley HvRTH3 reveals its role in root hair patterning with no detectable impact on drought response www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stay tuned… the Austrian Society of Plant Biology  will host the next Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology conference in Vienna, 17-20 August 2027 save the date and we will soon upload new details #fespb #plantscience #societiesofplantbiology

Two papers on apoplastic pH visualisation coming out together – a nice double pack from @aroessling.bsky.social and @elkebarbez.bsky.social -> www.nature.com/articles/s41... -> link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social

Want to image apoplastic pH in plants? 🔬 Two new papers from our team offer a full workflow plus open access analysis tools. Congrats to @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle and @lguerard.bsky.social Nature Protocols: rdcu.be/e7R2E BMC Methods: lnkd.in/dctpWJ3X Happy Imaging!

Looking forward to show new results from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social -can we translate root gravitropic dynamics to predict field foraging patterns? #roots #barley #rootarchitecture #rootphenotyping #gravitropism @marketapernis.bsky.social thx for the invitation @ceitec.eu

www.rootresearch.org/working-groups the #ISRR organized a minisymposium to introduce all 7 working groups that address different aspects of #rootsscience #roots #plantscience International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the ISRR Mini Symposium next week — a day of online presentations focused on roots 🌱 #ISRR @rootscientists.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

Register here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...

📢 Online event: International Society of Root Research - Mini Symposium — Wed 28 Jan 2026, 10:00–17:00 UK (12:00–18:30 UTC). Talks + discussion for anyone into root research & related topics. @rootscientists.bsky.social @rootarchitecture.bsky.social #roots #RootResearch #PlantScience #Rhizosphere

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek The hidden half in the spotlight: the diverse strategies of root systems under stress by Hannah Schneider & Doris Vetterlein in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qjfr #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Hormonal regulation of root growth under moderately elevated temperatures by Tilman Jacob et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/ps8z #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Root system architecture reorganization under decreasing soil phosphorus lowers root system conductance of Zea mays by Felix Maximilian Bauer et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qjpb #RootBiology #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Did crop domestication change the fitness landscape of root response to soil mechanical impedance? An in silico analysis by Harini Rangarajan and Jonathan Lynch in @annbot #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qjpm #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek Drought response of the maize plant–soil–microbiome system is influenced by plant size and presence of root hairs by Roman Hartwig et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qjpn #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience

🌱⚡🔬#RootStressWeek On the importance of rhizosphere conductance and soil–root contact in drying soils by Axelle Koch et al. in @annbot.bsky.social #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qjtk #RootBiology #PlantStress #RootPhysiology #PlantScience