"Enhanced Drought Exposure Increasingly Threatens More Forests Than Observed" This new study, led by Chongyang Xu, estimates drought mortality risk across Earth's forests. Notably, temperature increases (hotter-droughts!) with DMR. Read our paper here: doi.org/10.1029/2023EF…

New Paper 'Variation in xylem vulnerability to #cavitation shapes the photosynthetic legacy of #drought' by Vanessa Tonet, Timothy Brodribb and Ibrahim Bourbia in Plant Cell & Environment 🌱 doi.org/10.1111/pce.14…

Drought resistance and resilience of rhizosphere communities in forest soils from the cellular to ecosystem scale – insights from 13C pulse labeling New Phytologist: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Stomatal response to VPD is not triggered by changes in soil-leaf hydraulic conductance in Arabidopsis or Callitris 📖 ow.ly/2bVB50QHJRt by Bourbia & Brodribb Brodribb Lab Ibrahim Bourbia @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Stomatal response to VPD is not triggered by changes in soil–leaf hydraulic conductance in Arabidopsis or Callitris - New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

You are invited to join us at the Plant Success Symposium! Topics will include genomic prediction for varied environments, phylogenetic comparative analysis, advanced water status measurements, and the Nagoya protocol. More information and register: bit.ly/Plant-Success-…

New paper New Phytologist, with Sami Rifai, Eze Chinedu & Klaus Winter. "The stomatal response to vapor pressure deficit drives the apparent temperature response of photosynthesis in tropical forests" doi.org/10.1111/nph.19… (1/5)

Happy to share our new paper: The transpiration rate sensitivity to increasing evaporative demand differs between soil textures, even in wet soil sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success is laying the groundwork for sustainable agriculture worldwide by combining research from nature and agriculture with maths 🌱 Learn more at plantsuccess.org

Interested in Soil-Plant-Environment Interactions? and would like to join to our lab TU München for your postdoc? Then consider applying to the TUM Global Postdoc Fellowship. More details here: tum.de/en/about-tum/c… Please reach out if you have any questions.

It was wonderful to see Chief Investigator Tim Brodribb present at The Australian Academy of Science ’s Science at the Shine Dome event yesterday! Tim talked about his work helping to understand how water moves in plants and what happens when a plant is under water stress💧🌳

A recording of the talk is available on YouTube: youtu.be/gEhLViKzGcI?t=…

Do cavitated roots refill upon rewatering? The answer is no in wheat. Check out our latest paper in Plant Physiology by the brilliant Beatrice (Beatrice Harrison Day ) and Brodribb Lab team. Dr. Kate Johnson Vanessa Tonet, Chris Blackman ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success doi.org/10.1093/plphys…

📢 New publication 'Weak link or strong foundation? Vulnerability of fine root networks and stems to xylem embolism' by Beatrice Harrison Day, Craig Brodersen and Timothy Brodribb in New Phytologist. doi.org/10.1111/nph.20… Brodribb Lab Beatrice Harrison Day