Om Prakash
@baizalla.bsky.social
Graduate student! Interested in root physiology, cell wall, soft matter, plant adaptation, evolution, mathematics and philosophy!
🌱 Great energy at our TropiRoot Fall 2025 meeting! Had a wonderful talk and discussions on several ongoing synthesis projects, data initiatives and new ideas for collaborative work on below ground dynamics! 👇 Read more and join us: 🔗 tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait #TropiRoots #Roots
TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot held a large group meeting on May 19th, featuring engaging presentations and insightful discussions on various aspects of below-ground traits. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots
🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots
TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments
Tropical ecosystems contain the world's largest biodiversity of vascular plants. Yet, our understanding of tropical functional diversity and its contribution to global diversity patterns is constrain...
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We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at tropiroottrait@gmail.com. Thanks
Check out our research featured in a Clemson news story! We share exciting findings on root traits that enhance crop productivity and adaptability. #roots #fineroots #roottraits news.clemson.edu/adaptable-ro...
Adaptable roots, better cotton: How root traits improve yields
Cotton is vital to South Carolina’s economy, generating $144.5 million in production value in 2024. Yet, drought stress from sandy topsoil and clay-rich
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@baizalla.bsky.social me, Sarah Batterman, Jennifer Powers, Dani Yaffar, Amanda L Cordeiro, Kelly Andersen, Carol Miron, @lauratoro.bsky.social @laylugli.bsky.social
Why are not all whales dead from cancer? A simple calculation reveals that an animal 1000 times larger than us should be much more prone to develop cancer. This is not the case. Why? Maths suggests an answer. Check this @royalsocietypublishing.org paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Happy to share a new publication on root imaging, linking below-ground root dynamics and above-ground traits, "Better root length distribution in the deep soil profile enhances upland cotton performance" #roottraits #fineroots @tropiroot.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Better root length distribution in the deep soil profile enhances upland cotton performance
Intense selection for lint yield and fiber quality traits can impose an unintended limitation on the attainable yield of modern cotton cultivars, as t…
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Please feel free to read the quick short summary of the above research article "Studying how roots behave. Root dynamics over time in a hyperdiverse tropical forest" #tropiroots #tropicalforest #fineroots #belowground fesummaries.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/s...
Studying how roots behave. Root dynamics over time in a hyperdiverse tropical forest
Oscar J. Valverde, Laynara F. Lugli, Lucia Fuchslueger, Florian Hofhansl, Nathielly Martins, Amanda L. Cordeiro, Karst Schapp, Kelly Anderson, Sabrina Garcia, Adriana Grandis, Carol A. Miron, Katri…
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We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots
Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking. If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!
Daniela Cusack@daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 2y agoGreat leadership meeting with @tropiroot.bsky.social this morning! Reach out if you are a tropical root researcher interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data with us!
NSF Career Award supported invention of Foldscope - now reached 3 million kids globally with ~1 million kids in US - bringing joy of science to grassroots & communities with very little support. It’s brought communities working together on global problems. www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/f...
Foldscopes and Frugal Science: Paper Microscopes Make Science Globally Accessible — The Golden Goose Award
AWARDEES: Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health Picture a microscope. You are likely imagining a heavy metal base,...
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Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 2y agoPost the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
I'm really into humanoid robots. You know, the ones that can walk on two legs, have arms, all that. In the past year there has been an explosion of these robots, at least 10 advanced varieties. For me, the possibilities are exciting. Check out my YouTube list and... youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Humanoid robots - YouTube
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Please join this starter pack if you are connected or interested to the TropiRoot Network. go.bsky.app/3jG9f7z
Its fun reading a long waited history book “The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon #weekends
Thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for this alert to good climate news: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests - Communications Earth & Environment
Optimal regeneration success in Amazonian forests is mapped by simple ecological indicators, providing reference values for measuring restoration success across successional stages based on a large co...
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Imagine a plant, which forgets all the traditional rules! Escaping dormancy, stress, and even death!
New Editorial: "Dry matters" rdcu.be/d38JX December is traditionally a time for looking back at the year that has passed. For plant biology, drought has been a frequently raised topic in 2024 — and 2025 is unlikely to be any different.
New Correspondence: "Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism" rdcu.be/d38L4 The emphasis on vascular plants reveals a bias that leaves the non-vascular plants — the tiny, overlooked, inconspicuous plants — hidden in the shadows, literally.
Our editors write: - Plant cytoskeleton: How villin subclasses coordinate actin remodelling rdcu.be/d38Oh Villins are actin-binding proteins that function in Ca2+ dependent actin severing or actin bundling. Arabidopsis encodes 5 villin genes of different subclasses...
New collection: "Diffusion barriers in plants" nature.com/collections/... Biogenesis of diffusion barriers like Casparian strip, suberin lamellae or root exodermis. Primarily focused on root diffusion barriers, but homologous structures were recently discovered in trichomes.
New paper out on which I am a co author on studies of metagenomes from Tramway Ridge in Antarctica phylogenomics.me/2024/12/19/n...
New paper out from studies of metagenomes from Tramway Ridge in Antarctica
I am a co-author on a new paper that just came out. Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium eluc…
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These bayes tutorials are the first ones i've actually understood. Looking forward to the rest of the being finished. Go @easystats.bsky.social teams! easystats.github.io/bayestestR/i... #rstats
Understand and Describe Bayesian Models and Posterior Distributions
Provides utilities to describe posterior distributions and Bayesian models. It includes point-estimates such as Maximum A Posteriori (MAP), measures of dispersion (Highest Density Interval - HDI; Krus...
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A fan of #Bryophytes? You are (almost) not alone! #Bryophytes rule...they can grow almost anywhere, host a fascinating world of #microbes (incl. #nitrogen-fixing #Cyanobacteria), are key in #biogeochemistry, and hold huge potential for #biotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism - Nature Plants
Nature Plants - Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism
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Wonderful read on the history of plants, their migrations and adaptations to different environments “The Incredible Journey of Plants” by Stefano Mancuso !!! #plants
Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria, from #microLife Learn about key molecular information processing networks that allow #bacteria and #archaea to adapt to an ever changing external world. https://academic.oup.com/microlife/pages/second-messenger-signaling-in-bacteria #MicroSky
Thematic Issue: Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria
Nucleotide second messengers are key components of molecular information processing pathways and networks that allow bacteria and archaea to navigate and adapt
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