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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some #plants are just made to be drawn (by Curtis Lubbe). Helianthus tuberosus produces wonderfully variable #stem #tuber, perfect for exploring the hidden #diversity of #belowground organs. #art #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #clonality ▶️ 1url.cz/peOcv @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#GoBelowground 2026 is over, and what a great course it was! 🌱🔬 Thank you to all participants, lecturers and helpers for the energy, ideas, discussions and great atmosphere throughout the week #GoBelowground! 💚 @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social z.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 5th day of #GoBelowground was all about mini-projects #Buds #Storage #FineRoots #Clonality #Rhizome #Stolon #Traits #FunctionalTraits #PlantEcology Explore, measure, interpret and turn belowground traits into ecological stories. @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8

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Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences @ibotcz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🌍 Meet this year’s belowground crew – and find out what brought them to #GoBelowground course! 👇Students from different countries have come to the Novohradské hory/Mountains to explore plants from a different perspective – belowground. @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences @ibotcz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What’s the coolest thing about belowground organs? 🌱 Our Go Belowground 2026 participants will tell you! 👀 ⬇️ #GoBelowground #GoBelowground2026 @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social @exfumo.bsky.social

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Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences @ibotcz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🌱 Go Belowground course - everything you ever wanted to know about belowground plant organs! Theory, experiments and hands-on fieldwork. Add the breathtaking landscape of the Novohradské Mountains, top experts and a greate international crew - and that’s #GoBelowground 2026. 🌿🔬⛰️

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚩Sometimes the history of #landscape is hidden belowground. #Growthrings and #radiocarbon dating show that Psidium grandifolium survived for decades beneath Pinus plantations, waiting to #resprout when conditions improved #GoBelowground #Cerrado #ExFuMo ▶️ 1url.cz/OevaG @ibotcz.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 2st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #FineRoots #Anatomy #Crosssections #Storage #Mycorrhiza #Traits #Economy #Strategy Happy smilling belowground people 😀 #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 1st day of #GoBelowground course of belowground functional ecology #Clonality #ClonalOrgans #Strategies #GrowthForms #functions #traits 17 enthusiastic people from around the world! #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/ye0Y8

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In a new interview for the Roots and All podcast, we talk #rhizomes, #bulbs, #tubers, #roots, #ecological #strategies, and why looking belowground can change the way we see plant life. #PlantScience #Botany #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/9e01m

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What happens when fine #roots, rooting depth, #clonal organs and #budbank finally meet in one dataset? ▶️#UNDERPLOT: 19 key belowground traits for 10,453 vascular plant species ▶️ 1url.cz/DegKN ‼️Opens new explorations of strategies #ExFuMo #GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Going belowground in search of #Oxalis in #Brazil! From #waterfall #rocks to dry #roadsides, these plants reveal an amazing diversity of #bulbs, #rhizomes, and #clonal #strategies #GoBelowground #ExFuMo ▶️ 1url.cz/CeImH @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What happens when you start looking belowground? Gabriela Dezotti describes how Go Belowground! Brazil 2026 changed the way she sees plant communities and even inspired a new PhD chapter. #GoBelowground #PlantScience #BelowgroundEcology #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New on Plant Life Belowground blog! A personal journey into #belowground organs and the #carbon #starvation hypothesis. A reminder that plant survival stories are often written beneath the soil surface. ▶️ 1url.cz/geZEo #GoBelowground #ExFuMo

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#ExFuMo on the cover of @journalofecology.bsky.social Our colleague Curtis Lubbe created the #coverimage of #dormant #belowground structures in 90 #Oxalis species, capturing variation in #bulb size, number, depth and arrangement. ▶️ 1url.cz/DeZqG #GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Are there general patterns behind #allocation to #clonal #offspring? 🌱 A new @journalofecology.bsky.social blog post explores how clonal plants invest in offspring and what this reveals about plant #strategies, #persistence and #regeneration ▶️https://1url.cz/4eZqJ #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#Potato #tuberization is often understood through a handful of model #genotypes, but not all potatoes follow the same signalling rules. Explore how variation among genotypes can broaden our understanding of when and how #tubers form ▶️ 1url.cz/beh8s #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#Root #economics may be getting #exudation wrong. Rather than behaving like a #nutrient #foraging #trait, root exudation appears to track how roots are built and how they conserve #resources under changing conditions. ▶️ 1url.cz/5eDgJ #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #plant

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#Invasive #plants may be better at reading their #belowground neighbours than #native #species. Stronger #root recognition could help invaders adjust their #growth and avoid #competition ▶️ 1url.cz/3e4UL #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🌱How do we study #seeds hidden in the #soil? This poster introduces the main methods to explore the #seedbank, from #germination #experiments to seed extraction, and shows what each approach can tell us. Download ▶️ 1url.cz/bedfN #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We often focus on #belowground organs and #buds, but #seeds are just as important for plant #persistence and #population #regeneration. Check out our new poster. @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social ▶️ 1url.cz/RejUC #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #seedbank #dormancy

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Our colleague @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social is featured in the Trends in Plant Science series "Women in plant science" sharing her scientific journey from #clonal plant research, #CLOPLA database to #belowground #ecology and #GoBelowground course. #ExFuMo 1url.cz/FejUo

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We are proud of our colleague Martin Bitomský who received the Otto Wichterle Award 2026 from @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition of his research! 🌱👏 #OttoWichterleAward #GoBelowgroud #ExFuMo 1url.cz/PejUQ

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Dense #tissues are treated as more “carbon-costly” But what if that assumption fails? In #Mediterranean #woody species, dry matter content did not track #carbon #allocation traits... More on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/HeTFK #GoBelowground #ExFuMo

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What can #bulbs tell us about #plant #ecology? Quite a lot. Southern #African #Oxalis reveals trade-offs in #clonal offspring #allocation, from making many small bulbs to fewer, larger, better-protected ones. ▶️ 1url.cz/AesHQ #ExFuMo #GoBelowground @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🚩Many thanks to @czechacademy.bsky.social for supporting #GoBelowground course on #Functional #Morphology (Czech Republic on 13–19 Sep 2026) The fee is now significantly lower and the deadline has been extended! #PlantEcology #Root #Anatomy #ExFuMo #clonal Apply ▶️ 1url.cz/leRBL

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#Clonality may be great for #persistence, but does it come at an #evolutionary #cost? Lineages relying strongly on clonality tend to #diversify more slowly than those reproducing mainly by #seeds ▶️ 1url.cz/HeVgD @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #evolution #ramet

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Read #fairytail which begins on the #muddy bottom of a drained #pond, where long-buried #seeds #germinate and reveal very different #plant strategies ▶️ 1url.cz/Ce3T4 #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #storage #roots #rhizomes @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

How much do we really know about #rhizomes? In the second #Belowground #Book Club post, @Jitka_Klimesova presents Rhizomes by H. Krämer and L. Hesse, highlighting remarkable hidden #diversity of these underground #stems. ▶️ 1url.cz/beR9o #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Our #GoBelowground #course in #Brazil last week was a fantastic experience! Inspiring students, great discussions, and a wonderful chance to share the hidden half of plants with a new community. Thank you to everyone who made it so special! 🇧🇷🌱 #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) 🪴⛏️ #Botany #PlantEcology #RootTraits #BelowgroundTraits #CzechRepublic #EcologyCourse #FunctionalTraits #Anatomy #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

How does a global #weed decide between #seeds and tubers? In #Cyperus esculentus #reproduction depends on #plant size, with low-resources shifting investment toward underground #tubers that secure #persistence and #regrowth. #GoBelowground #ExFuMo more ▶️ 1url.cz/zeGzI

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#GoBelowground is going international again! 🇧🇷 This time we go to Brazil. #Functional #morphology #course Go Belowground! will bring students together to explore #storage organs, #clonal plants, and the hidden half of #plant life. #ExFuMo #ecology @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Aerial roots can be co-opted for defense. The trunk of the Mauritiella armata is covered with short, pointed adventitious root-spines. The species epithet is spot-on: This palm is armed. #Arecaceae #root #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up of the trunk of a palm whose internodes are studded with short root-spines. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ramets of #clonal #plants do not #forage #belowground isolated. Under #competition, one ramet can alter #root foraging in another through physiological integration, making root foraging a coordinated #strategy across the whole plant More on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/HeEH7 #GoBelowgrund #ExFuMo

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training 🔬🪴⛏️ 1url.cz/2ziQz #clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Plant belowground may be out of sight, but it is at the heart of exciting new ecology in @journalofecology.bsky.social Check our blog post ▶️ 1url.cz/Ge2Io topics on #soil #carbon #mangrove #seedlings #nutrient #root #plasticity #chemistry #ExFuMO #GoBelowground

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What if #belowground organs had personalities? ▶️ 1url.cz/ueHMb This post turns the hidden #diversity of #roots and #storage organs into a playful study, inspired by the remarkable forms #plants take beneath the #soil. #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #artㅤㅤㅤㅤ @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

‼️What if #grasslands are storing far more #carbon than we think? #Subtropical grasslands shows that most #biomass lies #belowground - global models may be seriously underestimating their #carbonstorage potential ‼️🌾 Our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/Heobp #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026 Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz #clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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