This integrated RAT → GRANAR → MECHA pipeline links anatomy → hydraulics → function in field-grown wheat.

Great work by Juan Baca Cabrera and great collab with the team of @hannahschneider.bsky.social

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#roots #wheat #phenotyping #hydraulics #preprint

Using high-throughput root imaging + mechanistic modeling, we show:

• Strong anatomical gradients along wheat crown roots
• Modern cultivars have smaller tissues & fewer metaxylem vessels
• These reduce both axial & radial conductance → ~20% lower whole-root water uptake capacity in modern lines

& finally, we are looking for 4-year #phd student to identify the #root traits that most influence #water uptake dynamics using in silico #modeling. The PhD will be co-supervised by B Muller, from the INRAE.

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Then we are looking for fully funded 4-year #phd student to to work on the #mapping of #root #trait variations European scale.

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Job offer here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iemn5...

We are also looking for 3-year #postdoc to work on the in silico prediction of root ideotypes for drought resistance across Europe. The Postdoc will be co-supervised by Dr. Pierre Martre, from the INRAE

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Job offer here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6oww2...

We are looking for a fully funded 2-year #postdoc to work on the development, validation, and deployment of a new multiscale root modelling pipeline.

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thanks 😀

& finally, we are looking for 4-year #phd student to identify the #root traits that most influence #water uptake dynamics using in silico #modeling. The PhD will be co-supervised by B Muller, from the INRAE.

🧪🌱💡 #joboffer #plantscijob #phd

Job offer here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2zg4q...

Then we are looking for fully funded 4-year #phd student to to work on the #mapping of #root #trait variations European scale.

🧪🌱💡 #joboffer #plantscijob #phd #drooght005

Job offer here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iemn5...