#Agenda

8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
@exfumo.bsky.social

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

What type of organ? Commentary by F. Curtis Lubbe from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The image above features different categories of belowground storage organs nestled within one…

What type of organ is it? 🥕🌱🪴 #Belowground #plant organs can store #resources, support #perennation, and enable #clonal growth. A helpful #guide to bulbs, #rhizomes, #tubers, #stolons, and more ▶️ 1url.cz/ReQE8
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course

#Drylands may look sparse aboveground, but the real strategy is #belowground. Across Southwest #Asia, #clonality doesn’t disappear with #aridity It peaks in the driest sites (again in #wetlands) Yes, #rhizomes are in the #desert! 🌱 1url.cz/5eKSZ #GoBelowground #ExFuMo

Try harder! How young clonal herbs rebuild after disturbance New research by Jana Martínková from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Photo by Jana Martínková. When a perennial herb germinates, it enters th…

Try harder! 🏋️‍♀️🪻How young clonal herbs rebuild after disturbance
Read more ▶️ 1url.cz/beLwS
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #biomass #clonality
#disturbance #establishment #functional #traits #perennial #herb #economic #spectrum #resource #allocation @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course

Calling researchers working on plant belowground - #bud banks, #storage, #rhizome, #anatomy, #clonality to join our #IAVS2026 Special Session-The Hidden Half: emerging questions in belowground #functional #ecology in #Gijón 22–26 Jun▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #GoBelowground #IAVS @czechacademy.bsky.social

Heading to #IAVS2026 in #Gijón? Curious about plant belowground? Join the #Belowground #Workshop! Intro + hands-on field digging in JUN 21. Free for attendees, max 20 participants. Sign up via the conference site! ▶️ 1url.cz/OJ8fM #IAVS #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality @ibotcz.bsky.social

Go Belowground! 2026 The Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences organize the 8th edition of PhD course of functional ecology „Go belowground!“ 1…

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️ Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

Ready for winter! ❄️☃️🪻As winter in the northern hemisphere approaches, plants are preparing to be protected from cold ❄️
Read more on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/PJ0Vy
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #rhizome #bud #clonality #overwintering #strategy @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

A little digging in the forests of New England
A new post on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/pJdXm
Many of the plants have very long rhizomes that twist through the thick litter layer! Thanks @josephtumber.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #Rhizome #Clonality #GoBelowground

Going belowground at the IAVS annual meeting Commentary by Johanne Gresse from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Photo by Gabriela Silva. I had the pleasure of attending the Belowground workshop at the annual meeting of the Int…

⛏️🌿Reflections from #IAVS2025 in Greeley - Commentary by Johanne Gresse (University of Tübingen) on Belowground workshop... they took us from plant anatomy to field digs to talks on belowground organ traits... more on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/uJdHi
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #bud #storage #morhology

#GoBelowground course is over! Huge thanks to all participants and lecturers! We hope you made it home safely and found the course useful. And also big thanks @czechacademy.bsky.social and @ibotcz.bsky.social for their support. Until next time! #ExFuMo #functional #morphology #clonality #roots

🌷The fourth day of the #GoBelowground course was dedicated to #bud #traits and bud bank, fine #root traits with @joanabergmann.bsky.social and participants' presentations. Thanks to @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #clonality #functional #ecology #course #morphology #phenology

Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance Despite recent advances in plant trait ecology, we identified a knowledge gap in understanding how plants strategize to cope with severe and recurrent disturbances. Here, we propose a new classificati...

📢Klimešová et al. (2025) in Trends Plant Sci: Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance - a new classification! ▶️ 1url.cz/FJExZ
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Clonality #BudBank #Resprouting #Disturbance #Storage

We are very grateful to @czechacademy.bsky.social for supporting our beloved "Go Belowground!" course on plant functional morphology.
Your support means a lot to us! 🌱
Let’s Go Belowground to explore plant strategies!
📅 14–20 SEP, Czech Republic
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #happy #clonality #CAS

When is a plant truly established? Clonal species challenge previous assumptions
A new on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/hJi3v
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality #rhizome #establishment

🚩The pessimistic and optimistic #functional #morphologist 🙂😒
A new on the blog▶️ 1url.cz/wJQSg by
@jitkaklimesova.bsky.social

"I was surprised that other #ecologists had not seen the obvious effect that #belowground organs"
#clonality #buds #storage #GoBelowground #ExFuMo
@ibotcz.bsky.social

🔬 Meet CYTENA next week at BPI Europe — Booth 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣! Discover how our tech ensures #clonality, speeds up cell line development, and boosts biologics discovery.
👋 See you in #Hamburg — or check out where else we’ll be in 2025: buff.ly/YSK0vYO

Sometimes the belowground comes to you!
The news on the blog 1url.cz/xJ1rJ
"Sometimes #bulbs that should be #belowground come aboveground, giving us a little peek into what lies below"
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality #Oxalis
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

📢How rhizomes shape whole-plant ontogeny and growth 🪴🪻🌸
Our blog contribution ▶️https://1url.cz/41nBN for @journalofecology.bsky.social
about the paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #ontogeny #carbohydrate #phenology #rhizome
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

🚩Flowers below and bulbs above! 😵🌱
The belowground world can be quite surprising — you never know what you will find!
Read more▶️https://1url.cz/81nWl @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality #flower #bulb
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

#Clonality of #Quercus pyrenaica at the center of its #forest success and decline🌳🌳🌳
...One of the Spanish names for Q. pyrenaica is “rebollo” which alludes to its enormous capacity to #resprout from the #root and #stembase...
Read more ▶️https://1url.cz/y1c09
#GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social

🧐When is a rhizome not a rhizome? 🪴🌱
A new commentary by Nigel Chaffey ▶️https://1url.cz/W1PRZ
...#rhizome is an #underground #stem, and #stolon is an above-ground stem...
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #functional #morphology #clonal #organs #CGO
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

📢Make your own plant! 🌿🌱🪴
As part of our on-going goal to make more educational materials to teach about #belowground #storage #organs, here is a new activity!
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #education #rhizomes
▶️https://1url.cz/l15CU
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

🌏📢Exploring #subtropical #forests! ... the most fascinating finding was a small forest herb that used its #stem #tubers to survive frequent soil disturbance...🌿
Read more ▶️https://1url.cz/W1OL6
#GoBelowground #ExFuMo #field #sampling #clonality #rhizome #tuber #China #herb

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"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025
The course covers the theoretical background and practical assessment of #plant #functional #traits found in #belowground plant organs in #temperate #herbs 🪴🌱
Application info: 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

📢"Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025
The course covers the theoretical background and practical assessment of #plant #functional #traits found in #belowground plant organs in #temperate #herbs 🪴🌱
Application info: 1url.cz/2ziQz
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #rhizome #course