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Marco D'Agostino @marcodago.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My first article is out! 🥳 We investigate how root anatomy influence water uptake in tomato 🍅

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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🌱 Does #phosphorus shape what #roots release into the soil? Yes, but only at the right moment in the plant's life. New #preprint from Sasha Pollet and Jean-Thomas Cornelis team UBC on white lupin root exudates across development. #plantscience #rhizosphere 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Photo of lupin flower, by Annie Spratt, from Unsplash

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Marco D'Agostino @marcodago.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Happy to share my first paper ! 🚀 Thanks to the PEPA lab and my great coauthors @adrienheymans.bsky.social, Rémy Schoppach, Valentin Couvreur and @guillaumelobet.bsky.social ! "Secondary Growth and Exodermal Barriers Shape Local Root Hydraulics: Modeling Insights" doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701735

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Decreased root hydraulic traits in German winter wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding (Juan C Baca Cabrera , Jan Vanderborght , Yann Boursiac , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @agrosphere-ibg-3.bsky.social,@guillaumelobet.bsky.social

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Marco D'Agostino @marcodago.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It was an incredible opportunity to present my work at #rhizosphere6 ! "Modeling water uptake : influence of secondary growth, hydrophobic barriers and developmental anatomy on root hydraulic properties" We couple functional models with experiments to better understand plant water uptake 🪴

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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

💻 Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems doi.org/10.1093/insi... #roots #model #PlantScience

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Marco D'Agostino @marcodago.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

So happy to be in that an amazing lab 😀

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Adrien Heymans @adrienheymans.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New preprint from @stephanevrg.bsky.social 's lab! 🧪 Simulations + mutant tests show a shift in how we think about plant cell adhesion, challenging "textbook" view on the role of middle lamella. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thank you Özer Erguvan and all co-authors 🔬 #PlantSci #CellBiology

FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall FEM and TEM reveal the process by which cell separation may initiate in the outer epidermal edge filling (OEEF) and propagate to the supracellular outer epidermal wall (SOEW).
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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

📣 Summer School: #Modeling Water Fluxes in the #Soil Plant System UCLouvain, Belgium | 8 -12 September 2025 soil-modeling.org/activities/s... #PlantScience

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Modeling Water Fluxes in the Soil Plant System — ISMC

The 2nd International Summer school Advanced Soil Physics: Soil-Plant-Water Flow

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Marco D'Agostino @marcodago.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Great project with great opportunities, lead by a great supervisor in a great lab 😁

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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

🧪🌾 #paperalert Check our latest paper in Plant Direct, by Juan Baca Cabrera. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Juan collected root hydraulic data from the literature & compiled it into a shared database (roothydraulic-properties.shinyapps.io/database).

image of a plant, with root and shoot, and hydraulic resistance to water between the different organs

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Adrien Heymans @adrienheymans.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

🌽Check out the fascinating role of root anatomical variation in maize adaptation to diverse climates and soils. 🌾 Congrats to Chloee: chloeemclaughlin.wordpress.com and the other co-authors. A nice paper just before the defense of her PhD 🔓 doi.org/10.1111/eva.... #RootAnatomy #GxE 🌱🔬🧪

Home environment predicts root anatomy in Mexican native maize. (a) Random forest (RF) modeling for the ratio of total stele area:total cortical area. Accession point of origin colored by observed TSA:TCA from Burton et al. (2013). Trait-specific significant environmental descriptors used for RF model construction. Smoothed RF predicted TSA:TCA for native Mexican maize. (b) RF predicted vs observed TSA:TCA values for all individuals used in model training and validation. (c) Composite GRANAR representation of observed (obs) and predicted (pred) GRANAR sections for the accessions with the lowest (low, pink) and highest (high, green) observed TSA:TCA. Predicted GRANAR cross-sections use predictions for all traits for which RF models were constructed. Hydraulic properties were estimated with MECHA

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