Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants Terrestrial vascular plants operate under negative water potential, which results in hydraulic tension in the vascular system. Vascular tension varies with transpiration and soil drying and is regulat...

📢 New publication ' #Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land #plants' by Andrea Carminati, Mathieu Javaux, Fabian Wankmüller and Timothy Brodribb in @science.org 🧪🌱

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📣 Summer School: #Modeling Water Fluxes in the #Soil Plant System

UCLouvain, Belgium | 8 -12 September 2025

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#PlantScience

International Soils Day YouTube video by DeepHorizon Project

It's World Soil Day! 🌱 Join us at #DeepHorizon as we commit to protecting our planet's soils. Learn how at #WorldSoilDay #Sustainability
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With @lauraborma.bsky.social

Yesterday, we visited with @quirijntje.bsky.social the experimental plots of Laura Borma in the Atlantic forest (BR), where they investigates the impact of reforestation. Very impressive setup! Our goal is to understand how vegetation alteration affects water balance by using soil-plant models.

Awesome paper about the central role of #soil texture on ecosystem water & #climatechange! It magnificantly shows that, although vegetation-atmosphere exchanges are driven by atmospheric conditions and mediated by plant adjustments, their fate is ultimately dependent on the soil
#HowWeAreConnected

PhD defense of Louis Delval on Soil-Grapevine Hydraulics Louvain-la-Neuve, 14th October 2024—Louis Delval has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Quantifying Soil-Grapevine Hydraulics from Plant to Field Scale" at the Université catholique de Louva...

Last month, Louis Delval defended his PhD thesis on soil-grapevine hydraulics! More info here 👉 javaux.wixsite.com/soilroothydr...

When is a soil too dry for plants to take up water? The hydraulics of sandy soils make their ecosystems more sensitive to soil drying.

Yeterday, our paper on the role of soil texture on ecosystem transpiration limitation was published in the last issue of Nature. Interested by a short summary? That's here 👉
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Le sol, grand impact du terrain «des minuscules» Dans une étude publiée dans Nature, nos chercheurs démontrent que le type de sol a une importance primordiale sur la réaction des plantes en cas de sécheresse. Des résultats qui soulignent l’importanc...

Notre article dans Nature sur l'impact de la texture du sol sur la régulation de la transpiration par les plante vient de sortir 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mais si vous préférez un résumé des enjeux et des implications de cet article, c'est ici 👉 uclouvain.be/fr/chercher/...

Welcome bluesky, Bye-bye X! :)