Mohanned Abdalla
@mohannedabdalla.bsky.social
Research associate @ Technical University of Munich,
Alumnus of University of California Davis and University of Bayreuth
Stomatal Regulation | Drought | AMF| Research plant water use regulations
Alumnus of University of California Davis and University of Bayreuth
Stomatal Regulation | Drought | AMF| Research plant water use regulations
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Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale
AbstractBackground and Aims. Mucilage has been hypothesized to soften the gradients in matric potential at the root-soil interface, hereby facilitating roo
academic.oup.com
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
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Honored to have reached 500 citations on Google Scholar! Grateful for the collaborations, mentorship, and research communities that made this possible.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
July 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Honored to have reached 500 citations on Google Scholar! Grateful for the collaborations, mentorship, and research communities that made this possible.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Honored to have reached 500 citations on Google Scholar! Grateful for the collaborations, mentorship, and research communities that made this possible.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
July 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Honored to have reached 500 citations on Google Scholar! Grateful for the collaborations, mentorship, and research communities that made this possible.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Our work investigates how plants cope with environmental challenges like drought, salinity, and soil limitations.
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
Hormonal regulation of primary root development
Dynamic hormone networks orchestrate Arabidopsis root meristem growth. In this review,
Nittis et al. highlight recent advances in how these regulatory systems shape root
development and discuss their ...
www.cell.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
📜 Hormonal regulation of primary root development
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
🧑🔬 Michela De Nittis, Mirko De Vivo, @raffolab.bsky.social, Sabrina Sabatini
📔 @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #Phytohormones #Auxin #Cytokinin #PlantDevelopment
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
doi.org/g9k8xd
Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com
This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.
This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com
This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.
This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Foraging for water by MIZ1-mediated antagonism between root gravitropism and hydrotropism
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
May 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Foraging for water by MIZ1-mediated antagonism between root gravitropism and hydrotropism
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#plantscience
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
🌿 Heat Wave Simulator Validated! 🔥
A new system using IR lamps + artificial leaves precisely replicates heat waves, revealing surprising plant resilience:
#PlantScience #ClimateResilience
doi.org/10.53941/pla...
🌱 Rethinking plant limits under extreme weather! 🌍
A new system using IR lamps + artificial leaves precisely replicates heat waves, revealing surprising plant resilience:
#PlantScience #ClimateResilience
doi.org/10.53941/pla...
🌱 Rethinking plant limits under extreme weather! 🌍
May 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🌿 Heat Wave Simulator Validated! 🔥
A new system using IR lamps + artificial leaves precisely replicates heat waves, revealing surprising plant resilience:
#PlantScience #ClimateResilience
doi.org/10.53941/pla...
🌱 Rethinking plant limits under extreme weather! 🌍
A new system using IR lamps + artificial leaves precisely replicates heat waves, revealing surprising plant resilience:
#PlantScience #ClimateResilience
doi.org/10.53941/pla...
🌱 Rethinking plant limits under extreme weather! 🌍
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾
We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.
We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.
May 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾
We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.
We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
New paper out in @plantphys.bsky.social :
Juan Baca Cabrera combined #field & #lab/ #structural & #functional / #invivo & #insilico data to analyse how root #hydraulic traits decreased in German winter #wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Juan Baca Cabrera combined #field & #lab/ #structural & #functional / #invivo & #insilico data to analyse how root #hydraulic traits decreased in German winter #wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New paper out in @plantphys.bsky.social :
Juan Baca Cabrera combined #field & #lab/ #structural & #functional / #invivo & #insilico data to analyse how root #hydraulic traits decreased in German winter #wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Juan Baca Cabrera combined #field & #lab/ #structural & #functional / #invivo & #insilico data to analyse how root #hydraulic traits decreased in German winter #wheat cultivars over 100 years of breeding
academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Postdoctoral Researcher- Brady Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Hello Bluesky, looking for #forestry #forestecology #botany #plantphysiology #ecophys #ecohydrology people 🌳🌲👨🔬👩🔬
April 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Hello Bluesky, looking for #forestry #forestecology #botany #plantphysiology #ecophys #ecohydrology people 🌳🌲👨🔬👩🔬
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Apoplastic barriers are essential for nodule formation and nitrogen fixation in Lotus japonicus
Establishment of the apoplastic root barrier known as the Casparian strip occurs early in root development. In legumes, this area overlaps with nitrogen-fixing nodule formation, which raises the possi...
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Finally!
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Im so excited to present to culmination of many years of work from the fantastic Defeng Shen and some great collaborators. For details, I have made a digested thread below, but if you are more interested feel free to reach out (and read the paper of course).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd
December 3, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I am so excited to share Dr. C Manzano’s work: she demonstrates the developmental timeline, function and genetic regulation of the polar lignin cap in the tomato root. It functions as a distinct intercellular barrier from the Casparian strip and is repressed in inner layers. rdcu.be/d10Pd
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale
AbstractBackground and Aims. Mucilage has been hypothesized to soften the gradients in matric potential at the root-soil interface, hereby facilitating roo
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
November 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
I wasn't very sure why the handles on Bluesky were so long. Turns out that is a method for identity verification by which you can attach your own custom domain. I've had a website for a long time and was able to combine a couple steps to get LarryMYork.phenotyper.com as my handle. Want your own? 👇
November 30, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I wasn't very sure why the handles on Bluesky were so long. Turns out that is a method for identity verification by which you can attach your own custom domain. I've had a website for a long time and was able to combine a couple steps to get LarryMYork.phenotyper.com as my handle. Want your own? 👇
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Plant Ecophysiology starter pack go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7
November 17, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Plant Ecophysiology starter pack go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Mucilage facilitates root water uptake under edaphic stress: first evidence at the plant scale
AbstractBackground and Aims. Mucilage has been hypothesized to soften the gradients in matric potential at the root-soil interface, hereby facilitating roo
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Exciting news: My paper is accepted!
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Long-awaited evidence on how #root #mucilage helps plants maintain #water uptake and #transpiration in drying soils 🌍💧
#OpenAccess
#PlantScience #RootHydraulics #drought @annbot.bsky.social @botany.one
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
🧪🌱💡 #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
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 6:41 AM
🧪🌱💡 #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
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
📊 Check out this Git repo! 🚀 Friends don't let friends make bad graphs.
An opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization by @chenxinli2.bsky.social 🧪
#DataViz #GitRepo
github.com/cxli233/Frie... 🌟
An opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization by @chenxinli2.bsky.social 🧪
#DataViz #GitRepo
github.com/cxli233/Frie... 🌟
April 30, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
🧪🌾 #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).
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).
April 8, 2024 at 12:34 PM
🧪🌾 #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).
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).
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
New Editorial: "Salts out, water in" rdcu.be/dCDI1
Research on apoplastic diffusion barriers like the Casparian Strip may help to better understand sensitivity to drought and salinity, two of the most pressing problems in agriculture.
[Illustration: 2011 News&Views rdcu.be/dCDMn ] #PlantScience
Research on apoplastic diffusion barriers like the Casparian Strip may help to better understand sensitivity to drought and salinity, two of the most pressing problems in agriculture.
[Illustration: 2011 News&Views rdcu.be/dCDMn ] #PlantScience
March 27, 2024 at 12:58 PM
New Editorial: "Salts out, water in" rdcu.be/dCDI1
Research on apoplastic diffusion barriers like the Casparian Strip may help to better understand sensitivity to drought and salinity, two of the most pressing problems in agriculture.
[Illustration: 2011 News&Views rdcu.be/dCDMn ] #PlantScience
Research on apoplastic diffusion barriers like the Casparian Strip may help to better understand sensitivity to drought and salinity, two of the most pressing problems in agriculture.
[Illustration: 2011 News&Views rdcu.be/dCDMn ] #PlantScience
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
I am really proud to share our study on microbes, Striga and sorghum is now online in Cell Reports! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... and the press release is here: biology.ucdavis.edu/news/soil-mi... This was an epic effort led by the incredible Dorota Kawa, +B. Thiombiano, H. Bouwmeester, J. Raiijmakers...
Redirecting
doi.org
March 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
I am really proud to share our study on microbes, Striga and sorghum is now online in Cell Reports! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... and the press release is here: biology.ucdavis.edu/news/soil-mi... This was an epic effort led by the incredible Dorota Kawa, +B. Thiombiano, H. Bouwmeester, J. Raiijmakers...
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
People, passion, publishable: an early-career researcher’s checklist for prioritizing projects (OA?)
botany.fyi/iq3z4M?b1
Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
#Botany
botany.fyi/iq3z4M?b1
Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
#Botany
People, passion, publishable: an early-career researcher’s checklist for prioritizing projects
Nature - Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
botany.fyi
March 22, 2024 at 8:30 AM
People, passion, publishable: an early-career researcher’s checklist for prioritizing projects (OA?)
botany.fyi/iq3z4M?b1
Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
#Botany
botany.fyi/iq3z4M?b1
Stuck between several lines of research? Here’s how we decide which ones to pursue, say Elizabeth Tenney, Jacqueline Chen and McKenzie Preston.
#Botany
Reposted by Mohanned Abdalla
Know someone involved in exciting #LeafGasExchange, #soil
or #NetCanopyFlux research using our instruments who'd like to present at a conference or workshop? We may be able to help! bit.ly/PPSITA #PlantScience #SoilScience
or #NetCanopyFlux research using our instruments who'd like to present at a conference or workshop? We may be able to help! bit.ly/PPSITA #PlantScience #SoilScience
March 12, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Know someone involved in exciting #LeafGasExchange, #soil
or #NetCanopyFlux research using our instruments who'd like to present at a conference or workshop? We may be able to help! bit.ly/PPSITA #PlantScience #SoilScience
or #NetCanopyFlux research using our instruments who'd like to present at a conference or workshop? We may be able to help! bit.ly/PPSITA #PlantScience #SoilScience