BarleyMicroBreed PhD course "Assembly and functioning of crop microbiomes" October 2026 🌾 Role of microbiomes in crop productivity and health 🌾 Experimental design and sampling 🌾 Amplicon, shotgun & phage seq 🌾 Bioinformatics & multi-omics 🌾 Stable isotope probing agro.au.dk/en/education...

Looking forward to show new results from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social -can we translate root gravitropic dynamics to predict field foraging patterns? #roots #barley #rootarchitecture #rootphenotyping #gravitropism @marketapernis.bsky.social thx for the invitation @ceitec.eu

🎥New #BarleyMicroBreed video - meet young researchers Menghui Dong and Karl Ludwig Körber working on disentangling beneficial interactions between #barley genotypes and root #microbiomes. youtu.be/MQQ7ssuKYzk

Meet young researchers working on the BarleyMicroBreed project at Aarhus University in Denmark

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The ability of roots to control their growth direction will never stop to amaze me 😀 #gravitropism #roots #barley #rootphenotyping monitoring dynamics of root growth changes on soil (frames every 10 min during 1h, 1DAG primary root, 2nd time gravistimulated in a row)

Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#roots #rootphenotyping on soil 🔬 DIY setup to track dynamic root growth continously without disturbing root using IRLEDs #plantscience @raspberrypi.com @openflexure.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #simonpree @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

48th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18 December 2025 at 15.00 CET discussing Roots for future crops: Horizon Europe Projects on Roots with Kati Retzer, Christopher Barnes, Charlotte White and Rafaella Balestrini. bit.ly/4pHuNkl. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

50 Whole Barley Genomes Assembled – A major step in BarleyMicroBreed The Barnes’ group at University of Copenhagen has assembled 50 complete barley genomes within BarleyMicroBreed! 🎉 Read more: agro.au.dk/forskning/in... #BarleyMicroBreed #Genomics #CRISPR #PlantScience #SustainableAgriculture

50 whole barley genomes assembled by the Barnes' group within the BarleyMicroBreed project

50 complete barley genomes has successfully been assembled as part of the BarleyMicroBreed project. This achievement marks a major advance in plant research and brings us closer to the goal of enhanci...

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We hope all #PMS2025 participants had some inspiring days in Malaga🍀🌾😊! Thanks to Aditya Malwe and Karl Körber for presenting their great @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social work connecting barley genomes, metabolomes, root microbiomes and drought resilience🙏🌾🌞

#roots #rootphenotyping on soil 🔬 DIY setup to track dynamic root growth continously without disturbing root using IRLEDs #plantscience @raspberrypi.com @openflexure.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #simonpree @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

Karl Körber supported by his great lab team Lisa Martinez, Chandra Ramanathan, Devin Dalsgaard and Ahmed Salem are busy sampling barley varieties, mutants and introgression lines from his second controlled drought experiment to disclose links btw barley genes, microbiomes and drought resilience🌾🌞

It was a pleasure to host @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social at PLEN, where she shared updates from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social as well as endeavors into imaging plant roots in the dark

I am happy to present a, what I learned from our in-field to lab approach @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social -which #roottraits #rootphenotyping were informative in an approach across 3 countries (5 fields, Austria, Lebanon, Morocco) - and b, my long year interest of experimental design influences #root

Courtney Herms@courtneyherms.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Interested in root phenotyping in soil and in the dark? and in Copenhagen on Oct 2? @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social will give a seminar at @ucph.bsky.social PLEN at 11.00 in room M117 - stop by and see high-resolution imaging and multi-omics at work!

#rootforaging correlation environment/ field (samlped in Austria @bokuvienna.bsky.social Wien, Morocco, Lebanon #ICARDA) of our 3 subset of 200 #barley varieties per panel #rootangle #roots #rootphenotyping in-field - super exciting @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

Happy to visit my colleagues from the @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social project :) #barley #droughtresilience #roots plant-soil-microbiome continuum @au.dk

That's so incredible cool to be able to track root growth with this details grown on soil, shaded from direct light, super happy #SimonPree @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social #barley #plantscience #plantphysiology #roots #droughtresilience studies

Sincere gratitude from #BarleyMicroBreed to #Rhizosphere6 for an inspiring conference👏. We received fantastic and truly inspiring feedback on our presentations - keynote by Mette Vestergård, talk by Menghui Dong and posters by Karl Körber and Andrea Visioni🙏🌾🌞.

Finally getting to hear about the awesome project @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social at #rhizosphere6 - breeding for plant-microbe interactions in barley

New results are presented by Menghui Dong: such good and impressive results that I won't spoil! But be on the lookout for publications from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social to see the future of crop breeding for plant-microbe interactions!

600 barley lines and 54,000 !!!!! roots dug up and sampled for the correlation phase - absolutely massive and impressive effort!

Happy to share that #Root2Res and #BarleyMicroBreed will jointly host the “Manipulating the rhizosphere with crop genetics” session at #Rhizosphere6. Root2Res and BarleyMucroBreed talks by Mette Vestergård (keynote), Menghui Dong, Lionel Dupuy and Tim George🌾🌞. www.rhizo6.org/scientific-p...

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We are looking forward to #Rhizosphere6, where Karl Ludwig Körber, Menghui Dong and Mette Vestergård will present #BarleyMicroBreed visions and findings🌾🌞! www.rhizo6.org/scientific-p...

Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth - Scientific Programme

A fully interactive version of the conference programme is now available. Please use this to browse sessions and read abstracts in advance as well as to see where different sessions will be located an...

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#ATSPB2025 conference organised by @bokuvienna.bsky.social happy to present progress of #roots phenotyping @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social and tracking elongation dynamics of #seedlingestablishment #roothairs #apicalhook #snrk1 #kin10

Super motivating - upon excessive drought stress we found few extreme switches in #roots depth #barley @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social 🌾🌾

Enthusiastic exchange students from CZ, thank you 😊 for your support in @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

Starting our big summer screen 2025 to see if in-field measured #roots phenotypes are reproducible in lab #translationalscience #barley @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social pot in soil and pouch growth assays, tracking #roothairs, #seminalroot #rootangle etc

Finalised our overview of 2 seasons -5 fields (3 countries) - ca 600 #barley varieties- 10000s of datapoints of above and below ground traits -looks like some work was done 😀 @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social -thx to Nathalie Friedl for mastering #rshiny #droughtresilience #roots

#translationalscience approach - screening for molecular keyplayers that modualte at cellular level #soil-root-microbiome continuum @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

bioRxiv Plant Bio@biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · last yr.

SnRK1.1 Coordinates Organ-Specific Growth-Defense Programs via Transcriptomic Rewiring in Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650715v1

#fundamentalscience #translationalscience to understand which of putative SNPs and QTLs are relevant in the #soil-root-microbiome continuum @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · last yr.

transcriptomics and hormonomics suggest that KIN10 links carbon availability with directional root growth by modulating metabolic and hormonal pathways, strong hints that its affecting auxin and jasmonate signaling

Thx Babak @babakmalekian.bsky.social for making a movie about our DYI IR LED #roots #phenotyping devices, more to come soon @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #Raspberrypi #openflexure @openflexure.bsky.social

Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · last yr.

trying to predict root trajectory #barley #roots #IRimaging #IRleds grown on soil in darkness @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social - some dancing roots before the weekend :)

Teams from @Root2Res and @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social interested in root phenotyping met to discuss our range of protocols and approaches. We’re looking forward to getting together at Rhizo6 in Edinburgh in June. @BreedMicro #Rhizosphere6

Project meeting 2025 - meet some of the talented people that work hard to reach the goals of @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social: 🌾 Identifying barley genome-microbiome-root phenotype links 🌾 Developing new breeding strategies for microbiome-aided drought resilient barley lines youtu.be/rQBN-Vzn_38

Impressions from annual project meeting 2025  – meet BMB partners

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