The fight against climate change may seem hopeless, but humanity has a simple and powerful ally in plain sight: plants. Great interview to Joanne Chory Salk Institute Can 'Supercharged' Plants Solve the Climate Crisis? foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/20/can…

Did somebody say roots? See Scott Stelpflug other people are thinking about crops bred for regenerative agriculture (or building soil health) besides Larry M. York

Happy birthday to Yaxin! We surprised our lab manager, Dr. Ge, with flowers and muffins! She's been with us for almost one year and keeps the lab running and always improving.

Just registered for Phenome 2020!🥳 Tomorrow IS last day for early birds and last day for a full talk abstract! Phenome is a phenomenal meeting, and organizing committee has made a lot of improvements for 2020! phenome2020.org Phenome 2020 The Plant Phenome Journal North American Plant Phenotyping Network

Thanks to Marcus Griffiths Haichao Guo Soil Water Anand Seethepalli for being the best phenomics group in the world. We have all the pieces in place for next level science in the new year

I’m looking for somebody who would like to start a 3 year post-doc in Dublin, Ireland in collaboration with Prof. Katie Field and Urwin Group @ Leeds. They must have soil/plant/microbe experience, preferably has X-ray CT/computer science/ imaging skills. Who is out there? DM me please

Thrilled to see @Valiancy_miao's preprint out. Flexible and robust functional principal component analysis to map genes controlling differences in plant phenotypes change over time. doi.org/10.1101/2020.0…

If you’re woman with a PhD who teaches ecology at a college in Ohio with ties to PA, this message is for you: I met your dad while doing field work. He was going for 21 miles on his bike around the lake. Says he can still outsmart you when it comes to trees but not sedges

Fresh preprint by Marcus Griffiths Root Phenomics Team representing 4 years of work to develop a phenotyping method RhizoFlux for multiple ion nutrient uptake by roots to make new discoveries. Uptake rates are heritable, correlated among nutrients and respiration biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Learned that our Midco packet printer might not be supported much longer and that a new one is around $16k+. It is a pretty indispensable tool for breeding. Any #plantbreeders aware of or using an alternative packet printers to Midcos that I can check out?

When in doubt do what Marcus Griffiths does. Label samples with 1) Expt name 2)Experiment number 3)Genotype 4)Treatment 5)Replicate Numbers 5) Your name/Lab name Root Phenomics Team . Bonus- print individual QR codes to easily relate downstream information with the correct replicates.

Marcus wrote a short post about how barcodes can be used for sample tracking and for ingesting data directly into R scripts. We process so many samples that his super organization has been key to successes. We try to scan barcodes as much as possible to limit errors.

RhizoVision Explorer is the hub of the RhizoVision ecosystem, that includes open, affordable hardware already published, like RhizoVision Crown, and upcoming plans for blue paper or pouch phenotyping, agar plates, and rhizoboxes. Flexibility is a strength.

A root system is the literal and figurative foundation of transforming our food system. sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/…

An illustrated protocol, example R code, and example data output have been released detailing how to use LI-COR 850 gas analyzers (roughly $6,000) for high-throughput measures of root respiration and to process directories of output. #gasflux zenodo.org/record/4247873

The lab is fully-vaccinated! We had our first in-person social event, an outside BBQ, since December, 2019. We enjoyed great company and great food. Still cautious in general, but was great to see everyone together. Anand Seethepalli Haichao Guo Soil Water Larry M. York

Functional phenomics and genetics of the root economics space in winter wheat using high‐throughput phenotyping of respiration and architecture Larry M. York Haichao Guo Habtamu Ayalew Marcus Griffiths @soilnwater Anand Seethepalli Root Phenomics Team nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

We are launching an Arabidopsis root segmentation challenge based on our recent ChronoRoot system🌱! Join us at CVPPA 2021 workshop workshop during ICCV2021! For more info check👇 Root Biology News Root Papers ROOTomics Lab. Root Phenomics Team @Rootstrapping Plant Root Scientists Thomas Blein