DROOGHT project
The project DROOGHT aims to identify **root traits** that enhance **crop robustness to drought**. The project focuses on understanding below-ground processes in cereal crops, particularly the role of root diameter distribution in water uptake.
The project will use both **computational and experimental approaches** to identify dominant structural root traits controlling water uptake under water-limited conditions. The outputs will include a multiscale computational framework, a phenotyping pipeline, and the identification of cereal root properties for robust crop across European conditions and climate change scenarios.
Overall, the project aims to advance understanding of **root systems' role in water uptake** and provide practical insights for breeders and crop modelers. Over the next 5 years, the project will hire 2 postdoctoral and 4 doctoral researchers.
Job offers
Postdoctoral researcher in Root Modeling- DROOGHT_003
Your goal will be to work on the development, validation, and deployment of a new multiscale root modelling pipeline. The framework will combine existing root models, from the organ to the field scale. The aim is to develop an open-source multiscale modeling framework that will allow researchers to explore the effect of specific traits (or combination of traits) on water uptake dynamics in any pedoclimatic conditions.
You will closely collaborate with other researchers in the group using the models and with the postdoctoral researcher developing the model-assisted root phenotyping pipeline (offer DROOGHT_002).
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