🌱 Root phenotyping and genetic improvement for rotational crops resilient to environmental change 🇪🇺 Funded under Horizon Europe

Joined May 2022
Yesterday, Molly assisted with the harvest of the @Root2Res WP4 faba bean trials 🌱🫘 Thanks to the Hutton farm team for making it happen!
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#Shovelomics on our @Root2Res trials is complete ✅ Trials seek to develop cultivars w/ abiotic stress tolerance. Thanks to the hard work from the Johnstown and Oak Park teams. Microbe community composition & functioning, enzyme activity, genomics & harvest analysis next!
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Thank you for sharing. This truly has been a memorable collaboration. The chapter is freely accessible to everyone for the next 50 days at the following link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lFg5… @AbioticStress @PlantTeaching @Root2Res @IndianBotanists
Excited to share our new book chapter just published! This work highlights how strategic root traits can be leveraged to enhance crop resilience and productivity under challenging environmental conditions. @KJagadish_TTU @ISomayanda @TTUDAVISCOLLEGE
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☔️ The rainout shelters (aka polytunnels) are up in the @Root2Res @ADAS_Mowthorpe #fababean trial. Imposing a late #drought to see how well the different varieties #root and take up #water
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@Arvalisofficiel representatives attending #Rhizosphere6 ; among other presenting results of @Root2Res project on traits to assess for #root architecture characterization in the field (for cereals and potato mainly). Lots of fruitful interactions in Edimburg.
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👍 sessions at @eucapnetwork event on latest agri innovations🌱 #HorizonEurope projects like @Root2Res are key to the #GreenDeal, driving necessary agroecological & digital shifts. Shared our phenotyping, genetic & modeling toolboxes with scientists, policy makers & agronomists
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Under @Root2Res at @ICARDA, successfully completed #Shovelomics phenotyping of 600 #fababean plots! 🫘💪 Exploring diversity of the hidden half of the plant Big shoutout to the amazing team! @ZDagdad 👏🌱 #FabaBean @Visio80 @Fmaalouf71Fouad @ShivKAgrawal
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BarleyMicroBreed@BreedMicro11 Mar 2025
@BreedMicro will be at the Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh - we host a joint session with @Root2Res and present work on 🌞 breeding barley fit to interact with stress-alleviating microbiomes 🌞 root phenotyping tools Abstract submission: 14 March! rhizo6.org/home
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Yesterday was a great day to drill a @Root2Res trial. Looking at #fababean #rooting and response to late #drought Thanks to the @ADAS_Mowthorpe team for the hard work.
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Had a wonderful 3 days at #KewGardens for UK #legume research community conf & PCGIN meet. Sharing work on faba #rooting from @Root2Res project. Photos nod to the #orchidfestival and great talk on leguminosae diversity. Great to be in person connecting, sharing & learning.
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Our @Root2Res faba bean multiplication plots are officially sown! 🌱 Huge thanks to everyone who helped make it happen. Excited to see them grow! 🫘 @JamesHuttonInst
2025 Spring sowing commences @JamesHuttonInst S.bean variety multiplication going into decent seedbed. Four week earlier start than last year.
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🤝🌍 @Root2Res celebra esta semana su reunión anual en Rabat, donde presentaremos avances en comunicación, transferencia y trabajo con agentes de interés 🌱 @ICARDA alberga un sitio experimental clave del programa Horizonte Europa para desarrollar cultivos resilientes 💧
🌱 Root2Res is coming to Morocco! Our consortium is gathering next week for its Annual Meeting 🌍 ➡ @ICARDA homes one of our main experimental sites. Check root2res.eu to learn about our partners! #research #HorizonEurope #agriculture #root #phenotyping
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A bit of #exploring before the @Root2Res annual meeting starts. Looking forward to catching up with everyone and hearing the project updates.
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We welcome Sen Li from China Agricultural Academy of Science in Xinxang in China, who will be with us until the end of the year. He will be looking at roots in association with @Root2Res
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2/6 🔬 Le projet Root2Res a pour ambition de créer une boîte à outils de #phénotypage pour la recherche et les sélectionneurs. 🎯 L'objectif ? Aider à développer des variétés de pommes de terre plus résilientes en analysant les systèmes racinaires. #AgriTech #Racines
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[Conférence #PotatoEurope] Les Pommes de terre vues par les racines 🌱 Les racines sont au cœur des stratégies pour adapter les cultures au changement climatique et rendre les plants résistants aux stress abiotiques de plus en plus présents aujourd'hui. 💧🌡️ 👇 Thread 1/6 👇
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Intense discussions during @Root2res mid-term symposium with project experts, Edith Le Cadre @InstitutAgroRA, Karel Klem @czechglobe_offi, and an engaged audience. Focus on developing crops that need fewer inputs and are more resilient to abiotic stresses #SustainableAgriculture
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Finished the summer in Rennes 🇫🇷 attending the European Society of Agronomy conference. Great diversity of talks on how to improve resilience of our cropping systems under environmental change. I also presented at the @Root2Res mid-term symposium, sharing our initial results.
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Engaging with @SoildiverAgro, @bioserviceseu , and @Root2Res projects. Strengthening our network and sharing knowledge in agroecology.
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