PlantEcoHutton
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Plant Ecophysiology team at The James Hutton Institute, Dundee 🌾
Stefan Pulver and team from St Andrews, visited us today to look at options for looking at beetle behaviour in transparent soil.
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Stefan Pulver and team from St Andrews, visited us today to look at options for looking at beetle behaviour in transparent soil.
We just had a great week at the @Root2Res in Ireland visiting @teagasc new facilities in Johnstown Castle. Lots of new ideas to take forward in the project.
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We just had a great week at the @Root2Res in Ireland visiting @teagasc new facilities in Johnstown Castle. Lots of new ideas to take forward in the project.
Molly and Susan have been involved in some site visit and sampling trips to the borders for the Diagman project, funded by Diageo to look at impacts of green manure on soil health indicators
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Molly and Susan have been involved in some site visit and sampling trips to the borders for the Diagman project, funded by Diageo to look at impacts of green manure on soil health indicators
Lia & Gwen had a great time at the annual Gatsby Network meeting at Oxford last week. Excellent to network & discuss projects with some of the brightest in the field, providing valuable new perspectives & ideas. It was also great to introduce Gwen to the Gatsby network & members!
September 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Lia & Gwen had a great time at the annual Gatsby Network meeting at Oxford last week. Excellent to network & discuss projects with some of the brightest in the field, providing valuable new perspectives & ideas. It was also great to introduce Gwen to the Gatsby network & members!
Yesterday, Molly assisted with the harvest of the
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WP4 faba bean trials 🌱🫘
Thanks to the Hutton farm team for making it happen!
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WP4 faba bean trials 🌱🫘
Thanks to the Hutton farm team for making it happen!
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yesterday, Molly assisted with the harvest of the
@Root2Res
WP4 faba bean trials 🌱🫘
Thanks to the Hutton farm team for making it happen!
@Root2Res
WP4 faba bean trials 🌱🫘
Thanks to the Hutton farm team for making it happen!
The team have been out at Balgonie all week doing the post-harvest sampling for the Agregen project funded by Diageo. This will help assess the impacts of regenerative practices on soil health. 🌱🌾
August 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The team have been out at Balgonie all week doing the post-harvest sampling for the Agregen project funded by Diageo. This will help assess the impacts of regenerative practices on soil health. 🌱🌾
Lawrie and Tim showcased Bere barley at the Rare Food Fair event in Porto which was organised by the H2020 RADIANT project. This citizen-orientated event was designed to promote traditional and cultural heritage using Underutilised Crops 🌾
August 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Lawrie and Tim showcased Bere barley at the Rare Food Fair event in Porto which was organised by the H2020 RADIANT project. This citizen-orientated event was designed to promote traditional and cultural heritage using Underutilised Crops 🌾
A big thank you to Cassie, who finishes up with us this today after spending the last few months supporting the @Root2Res bean shovelomics work. It’s been great having her on the team.🫘🌱
July 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A big thank you to Cassie, who finishes up with us this today after spending the last few months supporting the @Root2Res bean shovelomics work. It’s been great having her on the team.🫘🌱
🌾 Great news — Gwen Kirschner has taken a permanent position in the @PlantEcoHutton Team as Principal Investigator in Plant-Soil Interactions! It's great to know you're going to be around for longer, Gwen.
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July 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🌾 Great news — Gwen Kirschner has taken a permanent position in the @PlantEcoHutton Team as Principal Investigator in Plant-Soil Interactions! It's great to know you're going to be around for longer, Gwen.
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We are all sad to see Carmen leave Dundee, its her last week working with us. But we wish her all the best for her next adventure in Spain!
July 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We are all sad to see Carmen leave Dundee, its her last week working with us. But we wish her all the best for her next adventure in Spain!
We had a great week last week at #Rhizosphere6 meeting up with old friends and making new ones. Looking forward to more fruitful interactions with this community in the future and when we go to Rhizosphere 7 in Vienna in 2029
June 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We had a great week last week at #Rhizosphere6 meeting up with old friends and making new ones. Looking forward to more fruitful interactions with this community in the future and when we go to Rhizosphere 7 in Vienna in 2029
Lawrie, Molly, Kirsty, James & Cristina showcased their research at #Rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh last week! Great to see the work of the group on display and connecting with the l rhizosphere community.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Lawrie, Molly, Kirsty, James & Cristina showcased their research at #Rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh last week! Great to see the work of the group on display and connecting with the l rhizosphere community.
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Davide Bulgarelli opened Day 2 of #Rhizosphere6 with a great plenary talk, highlighting how domestication and plant breeding shape the rhizosphere microbiota — and how these insights translate from lab to field. 🌱
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June 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Davide Bulgarelli opened Day 2 of #Rhizosphere6 with a great plenary talk, highlighting how domestication and plant breeding shape the rhizosphere microbiota — and how these insights translate from lab to field. 🌱
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Carmen gave an excellent talk at #Rhizosphere6 on evaluating combined root exudate and rhizosphere microbiota sampling approaches — offering valuable insights into rhizosphere traits.
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June 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Carmen gave an excellent talk at #Rhizosphere6 on evaluating combined root exudate and rhizosphere microbiota sampling approaches — offering valuable insights into rhizosphere traits.
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Today marks the first day of the #Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh. We look forward to a week of engaging presentations and discussions on the latest advances in root-soil-microbe interactions.
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June 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Today marks the first day of the #Rhizosphere6 conference in Edinburgh. We look forward to a week of engaging presentations and discussions on the latest advances in root-soil-microbe interactions.
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This week we visited our field site on Orkney to measure chlorophyll fluorescence (Fv/Fm) in the Bere × Irina barley crosses with BARIToNE PhD student Zoe Marshall. These measurements will give valuable insight into their ability to perform on marginal soils low in manganese🌾
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This week we visited our field site on Orkney to measure chlorophyll fluorescence (Fv/Fm) in the Bere × Irina barley crosses with BARIToNE PhD student Zoe Marshall. These measurements will give valuable insight into their ability to perform on marginal soils low in manganese🌾
The Root2Res Faba bean shovelomics harvest is complete! 🫘
Great to see so many out lending a hand — and we even stayed dry.
Now onto the small matter of processing all those samples!!
Great to see so many out lending a hand — and we even stayed dry.
Now onto the small matter of processing all those samples!!
May 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Root2Res Faba bean shovelomics harvest is complete! 🫘
Great to see so many out lending a hand — and we even stayed dry.
Now onto the small matter of processing all those samples!!
Great to see so many out lending a hand — and we even stayed dry.
Now onto the small matter of processing all those samples!!
Everyone is raring to go for the Root2Res Faba bean shovelomics next week, we’ll be processing 1790 plants, wish us luck 🫘🌱
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May 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Everyone is raring to go for the Root2Res Faba bean shovelomics next week, we’ll be processing 1790 plants, wish us luck 🫘🌱
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Cristina passed her viva with flying colours. Well done Dr McBride-Serrano! 🎉
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May 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Cristina passed her viva with flying colours. Well done Dr McBride-Serrano! 🎉
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Lawrie has been helping Chiara Campoli set up a hydroponics experiment to produce Bere barley plants to take to Slovenia for analysis of distribution of manganese in shoot tissue using XANES
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May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Lawrie has been helping Chiara Campoli set up a hydroponics experiment to produce Bere barley plants to take to Slovenia for analysis of distribution of manganese in shoot tissue using XANES
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Barley seeds sorted by variety for inversion and non-inversion tillage plots at Grieves House. These are sown in the same arrangement as their packaging, allowing us to see the differences between different varieties within and between these different plots, side by side.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Barley seeds sorted by variety for inversion and non-inversion tillage plots at Grieves House. These are sown in the same arrangement as their packaging, allowing us to see the differences between different varieties within and between these different plots, side by side.
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Here’s our new Plant Ecophysiology Team photo!
May 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Here’s our new Plant Ecophysiology Team photo!
Lia attended the Gatsby Foundation training weekend in Cambridge last week. Sessions included presentation skills, transition to PhD life, & navigating academia. A great chance to reflect, learn, and connect with fellow Plant scientists!
April 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Lia attended the Gatsby Foundation training weekend in Cambridge last week. Sessions included presentation skills, transition to PhD life, & navigating academia. A great chance to reflect, learn, and connect with fellow Plant scientists!
The faba beans are starting to appear in the field in Scotland for the #Root2Res trials!
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April 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The faba beans are starting to appear in the field in Scotland for the #Root2Res trials!
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