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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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...

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🎥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

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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)

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epsoeurope.bsky.social @epsoeurope.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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🙏🌾🌞

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#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

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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🌾🌞

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

#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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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🙏🌾🌞.

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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!

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Courtney Herms @courtneyherms.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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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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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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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PlantEcoHutton @plantecohutton.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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Impressions from annual project meeting 2025 – meet BMB partners

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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 :)

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Everyday a small progress #DDrC #roottracking #barley #roots @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social #SimonPree - exciting work :) - not yet perfect but getting better :)

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Looking forward to www.rhizo6.org Rhizosphere_6 to meet colleagues from @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social and our EU Horizon sister project Root2Res and the @rootscientists.bsky.social community #roots #rhizosphere @rootarchitecture.bsky.social

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International Society of Root Research @rootscientists.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

📢 The new deadline to submit your abstract for #Rhizosphere6 is March 28 (new extension). Join us in Edinburgh to share your root and rhizosphere research! 🤩

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thx William and Julien from @openflexure.bsky.social for your interest in our work and great input how to improve the #IRLed based #microscope to study #roots on soil looking forward further collaboration #harnessingnaturalresources #plantscience @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@barleymicrobreed.bsky.social will be at the Rhizoshere6 conference in Edinburgh - we host a joint session with Root2Res and present work on 🌞 breeding barley to interact with stress-alleviating microbiomes 🌞 root phenotyping Abstract submission deadline 14March! Read more: www.rhizo6.org/home

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Connecting Root Traits to Plant Performance EU Horizon @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social project, we focus on quantifying root traits under stress conditions. Our work helps identify how root function contributes to plant resilience, particularly in drought-prone environments

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Building Novel Tools for Root Science Root phenotyping remains a challenging field, our research aims to improve the way we study root systems, helping scientists, breeders...to better understand the underground half of plants. @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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PlantEcoHutton @plantecohutton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The deadline for abstracts for Rhizosphere 6 has been extended to 14th March, please submit your abstracts before then to have the chance to speak at the conference. @hutton.ac.uk #Rhizosphere6

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

BarleyMicroBreeders meeting at BOKU in Vienna for the annual BarleyMicroBreed meeting to share progress and discuss strategies for the validation and implementation phases of the project. Read more: www.barleymicrobreed.eu Thanks to @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social and BOKU team for organizing🌾🙏

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Great talk from Henrik Brinch-Pedersen from @au.dk a partner in the @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social hold at @bokuvienna.bsky.social about his groundbreaking #roots quantification method from soil samples 👏 using #ddPCR allowing a more accurate and faster approach looking forward to use it by myself

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barleymicrobreed.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Busy lab days sampling roots for the analyses of #microbiome responses to #drought across contrasting #barley lines. Thanks to #BarleyMicroBreed PhD student Karl Körber and his hardworking PLANMIK Crew💪🙏🌾

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AmbassadorISRRWP6 @rootarchitecture.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Introducing #ambassadorISRRWP6 Kataryzna Retzer, interested in root-soil interactions, #roots adaptation to stress, improving root phenotyping #DDrC, #drootsystem, #translationalscience field to lab and back boku.ac.at/en/oekb/woek... @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

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PlantEcoHutton @plantecohutton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿 www.rhizo6.org/home please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting. @hutton.ac.uk #rhizosphere6

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Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth

Welcome to Rhizosphere 6 We are looking forward to welcoming the global rhizosphere research community to Edinburgh for Rhizosphere 6 in June 2025. The meeting will foster exchange, interaction and ...

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Kati Retzer @katarzynaretzer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Amazing construction of a 3D printed microscope @openflexure.bsky.social using #IRLED to observe #roots #roothairs #rootarchitecture on soil in darkness, ca 200€, by PhD Student Simon Pree @bokuvienna.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social EU Horizon - love his innovative ring light;4x objective

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