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Marco D'Agostino
@marcodago.bsky.social
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How root anatomy influences plant water uptake ?
PhD student | Bioengineer & Data Scientist | In Silico analysis
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plantphys.bsky.social
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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July 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
marcodago.bsky.social
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 🪴
June 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Marco D'Agostino
insilicoplants.bsky.social
💻 Simulating rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems
doi.org/10.1093/insi... #roots #model #PlantScience
June 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
marcodago.bsky.social
So happy to be in that an amazing lab 😀
guillaumelobet.bsky.social Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · May 29
Great annual fun day in Namur with the PEPA lab yesterday. Feeling very privileged to be working with such amazing people! @marcodago.bsky.social @adrienheymans.bsky.social @lucianm.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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adrienheymans.bsky.social
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). CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.03.646819; this version posted April 6, 2025.
April 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reposted by Marco D'Agostino
insilicoplants.bsky.social
📣 Summer School: #Modeling Water Fluxes in the #Soil Plant System

UCLouvain, Belgium | 8 -12 September 2025

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#PlantScience
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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March 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
marcodago.bsky.social
Great project with great opportunities, lead by a great supervisor in a great lab 😁
guillaumelobet.bsky.social Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · May 7
🧪🌱💡 #PlantSciJob
Are you passionate about #robust cropping systems? Do you want to explore how #plant #roots impact water flow across different scales?

We're happy to announce that we have 3 open positions (1 PhD, 2 postdocs) @ UCLouvain (BE) for the EU project DROOGHT.

More: drooght.github.io
DROOGHT project
drooght.github.io
May 7, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Reposted by Marco D'Agostino
insilicoplants.bsky.social
💻🌿Synthetic data for training image processing artificial intelligence
#FSPM #CPlantBox @unrealengine.bsky.social

botany.one/2024/04/harn... from @botany.one
Harnessing the Power of Synthetic Data for Deep Learning Image Analysis
The Synavis framework provides a solution to overcome data scarcity for training deep learning biological image analysis models.
botany.one
April 12, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Marco D'Agostino
guillaumelobet.bsky.social
🧪🌾 #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
April 8, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Marco D'Agostino
adrienheymans.bsky.social
🌽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
March 11, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Reposted by Marco D'Agostino
leonardojo.bsky.social
The final version of the ggPlantmap is out at @jxbotany.bsky.social
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Come for the information, stay for the beautiful figures!
We hope it can encourage people to create their own eFP-viewer!
ggPlantmap: an open-source R package for the creation of informative and quantitative ggplot maps derived from plant images
ggPlantmap, a new addition to the plant data visualization toolbox, allows users to create graphical maps from plant images for the representation of spatial qu
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March 4, 2024 at 8:47 PM