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ERC WILD-ROOTS

@wild-roots.bsky.social
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ERC Consolidator Project based at IRTA, Catalunya, aiming to discover the hidden half of domestication. (PI: Catherine Preece)

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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In our rapid selection experiment we're using hoverflies to pollinate the Brassica rapa flowers. Here's a photo from the first test run 🪰
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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Very cool looking paper on bacterial AND fungal necromass contributions to SOC academic-oup-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/ismecommun/a....
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Testing different substrates for growing fast-cycle brassicas in our upcoming selection experiments. Looking to find the best combination to optimise root washing!
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Marcos Fernández-Martínez @burriach.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🌿 Contractes Juan de la Cierva postdoc | Uneix-te al nostre lab al CREAF, Barcelona!🌿 Recerca: ecologia elemental, cicles biogeoquímics, trets funcionals, briòfits Doctorat 2024-2025 | Termini: 10 des Contacta per més info! www.aei.gob.es/ca/convocato... #postdoc #ecologia #JuanDeLaCierva
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Nice example of a wild lentil plant, fresh from root washing, ready for root exudate measurement. We'll see how the exudates compare to modern lentil and other crops!
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Last days to apply for a PhD position with us at IRTA Cabrils (Catalonia, Spain) to work on drought resistance of crops, root exudates, rhizosphere microbes, crop wild relatievs and more! talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6147...
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PhD Candidate for a project about drought resistance of crop roots - IRTA
We are an agri-food Research Institute under the Government of Catalonia, where over 1000 professionals work, with commitment, across 19 research areas to contribute to the future and to society.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
#PhD position now open to work with us in Catalunya at IRTA (Cabrils) investigating domestication effects on crop roots and drought tolerance. Apply here: talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6147...
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PhD Candidate for a project about drought resistance of crop roots - IRTA
We are an agri-food Research Institute under the Government of Catalonia, where over 1000 professionals work, with commitment, across 19 research areas to contribute to the future and to society.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We're looking for a postdoc with experience in microbial data other omics to work on the project (3 year contract) here in Cabrils, Spain. Apply here ➡️ talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6071...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Crop Domestication Effects on Plant and Soil Ecology for the Sustainability in Biosystems Program - IRTA
We are an agri-food Research Institute under the Government of Catalonia, where over 1000 professionals work, with commitment, across 19 research areas to contribute to the future and to society.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Last week we had a great kick-off meeting with colleagues and collaborators!
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Some of the beautiful flowers in the WILD-ROOTS greenhouse today.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🧪The plants are getting bigger and the exudate measurements are beginning in earnest. Hypothesis is that wild plants exude more C, and more diverse exudates, but previous experiments suggest it's not that simple!
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Amit Kumar @amit-kumar-phd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We are digging into how barley domestication shaped root and rhizosphere traits. Just look at those stunning roots! 🌾. I will be displaying some preliminary results at #Rhizosphere6 conf. @wild-roots.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social @ @cathepreece.bsky.social @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social
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Catherine Preece @cathepreece.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My first time growing radish in an experiment-excited to include some root crops in the #WILD-ROOTS project. The modern and traditional varieties do look quite different! @wild-roots.bsky.social
Modern radish variety growing in plant pot with a visible pink root. Traditional 'landrace' radish growing in a pot, and looking much weedier.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Soil VOC emission measurements underway (with SPMEs) thanks to our Masters student Jordi. Will wild relatives have different emissions compared to modern crops?
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EDM-lab @edmlab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are hiring! Lab and field technician for the BRYOELEM project creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...
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Apply today to TÉCNICO/A DE SOPORTE A LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN TRABAJO DE CAMPO Y LABORATORIO PARA EL PROYECTO BRYOELEM (ref. 25-027-67899) job offer
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Joana Bergmann @joanabergmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Very happy to see this review on the #root economics space lead by @elsaelsam.bsky.social being published! link.springer.com/article/10.1... We show support and limitations of the concept, map extensions and discus future research avenues. Amazing team of coauthors!
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Revisiting the root economics space—its applications, extensions and nuances advance our understanding of fine-root functioning - Plant and Soil
Background and aims Fine roots and their traits determine resource uptake from the soil, thus being fundamental for plant and ecosystem functioning. It has been five years since the concept of the roo...
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
First measurements of photosynthesis underway. Will there already be differences between crops and wild relatives?
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The first plants are growing happily in the greenhouse. So far we have cereals and legumes, but many more to come. First photosynthesis measurements later this week!
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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New publication: Domesticated #rice alters the #rhizosphere #microbiome, reducing #nitrogen fixation and increasing nitrous oxide emissions. #agroecology #sustainability #microbialecology doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Figure 9 in Chang et al. (2025): "A model disentangling the microbial N-cycling functions in the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of wild and domesticated rice accessions. During rice domestication, a higher abundance of nitrogen-fixing genes in the rhizosphere of wild rice, while domesticated rice exhibited an increased number of genes associated with nitrous oxide (N2O) production and reduction in the rhizosphere of domesticated rice. Created in BioRender. Chang, J. (2025) https://BioRender.com/r38f406."
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Catherine Preece @cathepreece.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you want to see what we get up to at IRTA (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, in Catalunya) & the beautiful locations of the different centres, they've just published a series of short videos about some of the common methods we use...
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Marcos Fernández-Martínez @burriach.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Last few days to apply for this 4-year PhD contract at @creaf.cat (#Barcelona) about Spatial and temporal dynamics of biodiversity in Mediterranean spring ecosystems Apply here: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... Deadline 23rd February 2025. Please RT!
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The first experiment of the WILD-ROOTS project is getting up and running 🥳 We'll be looking at how domestication affects the roots of 20 different crops - exudation, VOCs, rhizosphere and more!
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Marcos Fernández-Martínez @burriach.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The Flow of Elements and the Functioning of the Biosphere Come and join our thematic session at SIBECOL 2025 (Pontevedra, Spain)! sibecol-aeet-meeting2025.org/Index/11/Cal... Deadline for submissions: 20 December!
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The WILD-ROOTS project is based at IRTA (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology) in Cabrils (Catalonia, Spain) which was looking lovely in the winter sunshine today.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📢Postdoc position open in WILD-ROOTS. Looking for a plant or soil ecologist with experience in omics analysis. Based at Cabrils, near Barcelona. borsatreball.irta.cat/enlace_ofert... Contact catherine.preece@irta.cat for more details.
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The maize seeds have arrived! 🥳 And here is a quick example of some of the differences and diversity you get from just one population of teosinte, landrace maize and modern maize.
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Catherine Preece @cathepreece.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Happy #WorldSoilDay2024 ! Soil is the foundation of our experiments and our food! And here's a video from the @fao.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd9t...
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ERC WILD-ROOTS @wild-roots.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Crop domestication began more than 10,000 years ago and brought about one of the greatest changes in the lives of Neolithic humans, which we still experience today. But how have the plants themselves changed? [1/6]
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