Happy to share my first paper ! 🚀
Thanks to the PEPA lab and my great coauthors @adrienheymans.bsky.social, Rémy Schoppach, Valentin Couvreur and @guillaumelobet.bsky.social !
"Secondary Growth and Exodermal Barriers Shape Local Root Hydraulics: Modeling Insights"
doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701735
Decreased root hydraulic traits in German winter wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding (Juan C Baca Cabrera , Jan Vanderborght , Yann Boursiac , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @agrosphere-ibg-3.bsky.social,@guillaumelobet.bsky.social
It was an incredible opportunity to present my work at #rhizosphere6 !
"Modeling water uptake : influence of secondary growth, hydrophobic barriers and developmental anatomy on root hydraulic properties"
We couple functional models with experiments to better understand plant water uptake 🪴
💻 Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #roots #model #PlantScience
So happy to be in that an amazing lab 😀
FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall (SOEW). CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.03.646819; this version posted April 6, 2025.
New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab!
🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella.
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬
#PlantSci #CellBiology
📣 Summer School: #Modeling Water Fluxes in the #Soil Plant System
UCLouvain, Belgium | 8 -12 September 2025
soil-modeling.org/activities/s...
#PlantScience
Great project with great opportunities, lead by a great supervisor in a great lab 😁
💻🌿Synthetic data for training image processing artificial intelligence
#FSPM #CPlantBox @unrealengine.bsky.social
botany.one/2024/04/harn... from @botany.one
image of a plant, with root and shoot, and hydraulic resistance to water between the different organs
🧪🌾 #paperalert
Check our latest paper in Plant Direct, by Juan Baca Cabrera.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Juan collected root hydraulic data from the literature & compiled it into a shared database (roothydraulic-properties.shinyapps.io/database).
Home environment predicts root anatomy in Mexican native maize. (a) Random forest (RF) modeling for the ratio of total stele area:total cortical area. Accession point of origin colored by observed TSA:TCA from Burton et al. (2013). Trait-specific significant environmental descriptors used for RF model construction. Smoothed RF predicted TSA:TCA for native Mexican maize. (b) RF predicted vs observed TSA:TCA values for all individuals used in model training and validation. (c) Composite GRANAR representation of observed (obs) and predicted (pred) GRANAR sections for the accessions with the lowest (low, pink) and highest (high, green) observed TSA:TCA. Predicted GRANAR cross-sections use predictions for all traits for which RF models were constructed. Hydraulic properties were estimated with MECHA
🌽Check out the fascinating role of root anatomical variation in maize adaptation to diverse climates and soils. 🌾
Congrats to Chloee: chloeemclaughlin.wordpress.com and the other co-authors.
A nice paper just before the defense of her PhD
🔓 doi.org/10.1111/eva....
#RootAnatomy #GxE 🌱🔬🧪
